Several possible causes: dying PRAM battery corrupt PRAM data (zap it) corrupt sound preference file you muted things :) you didn't turn on your external speakers :) you looked at a Viao with lust in your eyes I'd start at the top of my list paul On Saturday, July 5, 2003, at 08:05 AM, Business Macintosh List wrote: > This is the second consecutive morning that my Mac has started up > without that lovely, familiar 'Indigo' orchestral sound -- everything > else seems to be fine, just no opening sound. It's happened before a > couple of times over the past year or so, but -- two days on the trot > has got me worrying! > > Should I be worried, and what can I do to remedy it? (Nothing in The > Bible about that particular problem). I'm working on a 7-year old > 8500 PowerMac with two internal and one external drives. > > Randy? Or. . .? > > Roy P