[G4] Re: Start up Chime

keith_w keith_w at dslextreme.com
Tue Oct 9 17:13:37 PDT 2007


Harry Freeman wrote:
> Greetings ( + )!( + )
> 
> Just hit "Return" and you will get a flashing curser on the next line.
> However when you type in reset-all the open firmware application will 
> start the re-boot process.

I did it all (see below) without incident.
After the reboot, i did a few things, and finally decided to reboot again, to 
see whether I got a chime.
I did NOT.

keith

> ----------------------------------------------------
> On Oct 9, 2007, at 10:08 AM, keith_w wrote:
> 
>> John Baltutis wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/08/07, keith_w <keith_w at dslextreme.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>> Wilson John wrote:
>>>>> Is it possible your internal speaker has stopped working? Do you get
>>>>> system alerts and other sounds?
>>
>>>> Yup.
>>>> When I accessed my MacTracker application, it played a normal 
>>>> Startup Chime
>>>> sound for me, and the noise could have awakened the dead!
>>>> Yes, the speakers work well...  <g>
>>
>>> Boot into open firmware:  restart, holding down the CMD+OPT+O+F keys 
>>> until text
>>> starts scrolling down the screen. Type in these commands, one a time, 
>>> and hit
>>> the return key (the last on restarts the machine, so hold down the C 
>>> key):
>>> reset-nvram
>>> set-defaults
>>> reset-all


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