Startup Sound

Thanks for your reply. I should have told you in advance that I checked my sound settings and "play Sound on Startup" is checked. I've turned it off, then on again, but still no sound. I also unplugged my MAC to reset it, then ran 'repair' but none of that didn't helped either. If you can think of anything else, I'd appreciate all the help I can get.

The startup sound was working in Big Sur, until I interrupted the 11.2.2 update last night. That's when the startup sound disappeared. It still wasn't working this morning, so I I decided to install Monterey instead, which I did through MAC OS Internet Recovery. The installation went well, but the startup sound still didn't work. I've tried every fix that tech support recommended, but none of them worked. I know that the sound is there because it worked twice after repairing my drive and rebooting, but only those 2 times. There must be some way to fix it, but I can't find it.

Tech support walked me through several shutdowns and resets. After everything failed, the agent said that she's going to speak to her "team" to ask about other solutions and that she'll get back to me. That was 7 hours ago.

I think you’re right, Brent. I lost the startup sound when I tried to download the Big Sur update, and even updating to Monterey didn’t bring it back. Believe me, I’ve tried every possible fix, including reinstalling Monterey, but nothing worked.

Now tech support is turning to an Apple engineer to find out if there’s a solution. The one thing I refuse to do is erase my hard drive and start over. The startup sound isn’t worth it.

I’ll keep you all posted so that if there’s a fix for this, it may help someone else.

I've tried safe mode... no luck. Interestingly, when I used First Aid in Disk Utility, the startup sound worked when my MAC rebooted...twice! But each time, the startup sound worked only after restarting from First Aid. When I restart normally, it doesn't work again. Does that tell you anything?

Then I guess I’ll have to wait for an update, but I don’t have much confidence in any Apple updates.

Thanks for giving me hope.

I’ve already reinstalled Monterey, but not in recovery mode. I’ll give it a try and will let you know the results.

Thanks!