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