If you have external speakers connected no sound will go through your internal (at least it doesn't on mine) speaker. My externals are also connected to the analog mini-jack. You might want to check and make sure they are connected properly. Once in a while our B&W G3 will loose startup sound and the fix is resetting the pram. On 5/9/05 5:13 AM, "Brian Durant" <globetrotterdk at gmail.com> wrote: > Since I purchased my G5 1.8 GHz. single about a month ago, I always > got a startup sound from the internal speaker. I have ALTEC Lansing > external speakers connected, but they connect through the non-digital > mini-jack port in back. I assume that is why the startup chime doesn't > go through my external speakers. For the past couple of days however, > I haven't been getting any startup chime through my internal speaker.