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In article <B0B06F2E9668409C1@0.0.0.0>,
slavins@hearsay.demon.co.uk.NOJUNK (Simon Slavin) wrote:

>If your volume is completely off (set to 0) when you shut down your
>Mac, it won't play the startup chime.  Is it possible you've done
>this ?

Hmmmm... I have just exprienced something very odd in the startup chimes
department- unfortunately I think it's worse than that...

Start: I installed RealAudio Player 5.0. It worked fine for sound but
except for a proper picture stream, *once*, from the RealAudio site, the
picture part of it always crashed. Bloody nuisance.

After every crash of that type I run Norton over the disk- quickly done
precaution.

Suddenly, after one of the crashes, Disk Doctor started to crash right at
the beginning- when checking "startup". Coincidentally or not, the startup
chime volume went right down.

I have found the following: alert sounds are okay; through the headphone
output jack, into speakers, they are fine. I can hear the startup chime
okay, but with the speaker amp switched off it's far quieter than it used
to be.

As for Norton, if I run Disk Doctor from a floppy it still crashes, even if
I have started the Mac with extensions off.

If I start the Mac from the system CD, Norton runs fine (from the HD, even)
and tells me that there is no damage to the HD, and all the files are okay.
Not only that, but if I start (via Cmp-Opt-Shift-Del) from a Zip drive that
has a backup of the system file with *almost* the same extensions, then
Norton runs fine from the HD, too (and tells me everything is AOK.) When I
match up the extension set and boot from the HD, Norton still crashes.
Although it shouldn't make a difference I replaced the system file itself
on the HD. No difference. 

I have removed every trace of RealAudio Player from the machine (I still
have the installer on a Zip drive). The problems persist. I used TechTool
to zap the PRAM. Same again.

All programs other than Norton seem to run okay. I got a couple of type 11
failures this evening, which is two more than I usually get in a week. On
the other hand that's not beyond the bounds of coincidence.

Sum-up: Norton failure's presumably not an extension clash as it still
happens with extensions switched off and with much the same extensions from
a Zip drive.

The low chime level seems... just odd.

And yes, I know that what I ought to do is to copy across my working
system. And I guess I shall. But WIHIH? Eh?

(In the mean time I struggle to make yet another programme about Diana. It
should even turn out to be quite good. Or not. It's all down to us. Us
including me. We transmit in 12 days and we haven't finished making it.
Hardly started, I reckon... Who said freelancing meant I would be able to
be able to do just the programmes I want? As a retired fogey I don't even
need the money but the habits of a life time die hard. You want it
yesterday? Are you sure it can wait that long? Great! Of course!)

Replacing the system just now seems somehow too much like doing something
serious... 

7500/100. Sys 7.5.2. Until now, bog reliable.

-- 
Peter