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Chimes of Death

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(thing) by micahjd (5.1 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Sun Sep 10 2000 at 6:54:54

This is the frightening and perhaps slightly satanic sound made by a macintosh with a serious error during power-on diagnostics or booting.

Ways to trigger this sound on purpose are to press the hardware interrupt switch (on very old models only) or to hit command-power immediately after power-on.


(thing) by The Custodian (7.7 hr) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Sun Sep 10 2000 at 7:03:27

Some models of Power Macintosh also have a hideous digitized car crash sound, complete with breaking glass, that is played when serious errors arise during bootup. I'm not sure off the top of my head which ones, though; all I know is that it's a frightening thing to hear coming from a booting computer, especially since the Mac tends to play it at near-top volume...

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