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do you get the startup chime?<br />
Sure the speaker isn't just gone, what mac model is this.
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do you get the startup chime?
Sure the speaker isn't just gone, what mac model is this.

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I have a power macintosh for 3 years<br />
now. &nbsp;Recently, the sound completely<br />
died...nothing new was installed or downloaded, it just died, not even a startup chime. &nbsp;I checked the sound control panel, all was set on high, zapped the pram, didn't help. &nbsp;I even reformatted my drive and reinstalled the OS (8.5)...still no sound, although everything else is perfect. &nbsp;I believe it is a hardware problem but that's out of my area of expertise. &nbsp;Any ideas?<br />

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I have a power macintosh for 3 years
now.  Recently, the sound completely
died...nothing new was installed or downloaded, it just died, not even a startup chime.  I checked the sound control panel, all was set on high, zapped the pram, didn't help.  I even reformatted my drive and reinstalled the OS (8.5)...still no sound, although everything else is perfect.  I believe it is a hardware problem but that's out of my area of expertise.  Any ideas?


Sound dead

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