the speakers should be muted.
Are you sure that the boot chime that you hear is not coming from the headphones?
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So, I have a macbook (2.0 ghz, white) running OS X 10.4.7. My problem is that when starting up with headphones plugged in, I still hear the startup chime wit h the speakers. I looked it up online but it only talks about the same problem with bootcamp (which I don't have or use). I know I can just mute the volume at shutdown but don't want to go through the hassle of unmuting...
Also, I know I can just put it to sleep and avoid this problem, but there are times I just shut it off and with other people sleeping don't want to wake them with the noise (as I use it at night). Any help is appreciated.

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