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Re: Automatic power-on



On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 07:38:16AM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> I've never installed quik (I used BootX), but I think the double chime you 
> hear may be the parameter ram getting reinitialized.
> 
> I know that if you hold Command-Option-P-R the parameter ram gets reset and 
> then it reboots, giving you another chime.
> 
> If quik screwed with the parameter ram in some way, maybe the Mac OS is 
> trying to restore it to a default state.  That would wipe out your control 
> setting.
> 
> I'm just speculating, I don't really know.  Anyway, do each of the two 
> chimes you hear sound like the normal boot chime?

Yes, two normal boot chimes without any pause between them. In fact
the first is even cut short a little by the start of the second.

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Ron Golan
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