Hi Ashley and all, I have found that if you change the internal speakers output, under system preferences, and sound, at least, in leopard, it changed the default of the external speakers back to 54 per cent, so you may have to go in to sound in system preferences under output, and raise the output volume where you want, because voice over may not be loud enough, at any rate, that's what happened to me under leopard, I hope the settings stick in snow leopard, but this was with my mac mini. --Original Message Text--- From: Peggy Fleischer Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 07:44:15 -0500 Hi: I have somehow lowered the volume on my startup sound. All other volumes are fine but I can't figure out how to raise the volume on the startup sound. Any help would be appreciated. Peggy Fleischer peggyfleischer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Psalm 90 12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Marty