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- bightchee, on 11/27/2007, -9/+1063When will the RIAA get off our backs about DRM and let us play the songs WE WANT when our motherboard is telling us our CPU fan has failed?
- rabidmonkey1, on 11/27/2007, -37/+763That's nothing! My computer started talking in strange voices to me once. When blood started to pour out of the CD tray, we decided to exorcise it.
- viper565, on 11/27/2007, -12/+493This is ridiculous. But so awesome.
- nfollmer, on 11/27/2007, -3/+468Could you imagine if they made your computer play a different song for every issue it had? It would be more informative than "beep counting".
- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -7/+410So like when the mouse is not detected it plays Three Blind Mice.
- fluidfoundation, on 11/27/2007, -12/+367Finally, I have been told what I can do. No longer do I need to randomly break into a waltz!
Freedom! - Dragular, on 11/27/2007, -4/+287Oh God I can see the Digg comments now. "Yeah, I'd love to play Crysis, but my computer is playing a Midi version of 'pour some sugar on me' so until I get that vid card fixed I'm screwed."
- alex77, on 11/27/2007, -0/+249My computer occasionally plays what sounds like a Russian classical music radio station late at night. This was a bit creepy and I thought I was going mad until I realized my speakers were poorly shielded were acting like a radio receiver. It took a long time for me to realize this....
- Double-Z, on 11/27/2007, -1/+230Lol, those crazy motherboard and bios designers.
I had a PC at work. It had a bios that spoke the error through the PC speaker. The volume for the voice was turned nearly off in the bios, and the motherboard's battery failed. The PC was whispering to me. I'd never heard of a motherboard that did this, and it freaked me out for a while before I figured out what it was! - Haohmaru, on 11/27/2007, -5/+210I don't want to hear Fur Elise when my CPU fan is failing! I want to hear the 1812 Overture!
- Brassbud, on 11/27/2007, -0/+187The dreaded Fur Elise of Death (FEoD)
- allenm, on 11/27/2007, -2/+176My ASUS mobo spoke to me once. It was a female voice that told me one of my RAM chips was dead. It actually turned out to be the motherboard itself. See...never listen to women.
- potterboy, on 11/27/2007, -1/+153Also known as a piece of classical piano music written by Beethoven.
- fluidfoundation, on 11/27/2007, -22/+168fail
- jerrylin, on 11/27/2007, -6/+149I've been looking for a MS Certified exorcist. Maybe you can refer me to yours?
- MarcelLionheart, on 11/27/2007, -2/+136"What do I do if my computer becomes self-aware?"
- mlvassallo, on 11/27/2007, -0/+132I had to trouble shoot some grandmother who kept hearing conversations coming from her Grape iMac. I went to her house and realized its built in speakers were receiving the telephone signals from her upstairs neighbor. When she realized what it was I asked her if she wanted me to fix that and she said no... she liked listening to their conversations.
- Zuggy, on 11/27/2007, -3/+127"It's all about the Pentiums Baby" by Weird Al would be Epic
- Dragular, on 11/27/2007, -5/+118BSOD? "I'm blue da ba dee da ba daaaa da ba deeee"
... officially making Windows even MORE annoying. - bightchee, on 11/27/2007, -26/+128Fur Elise.... otherwise known as "the claw-game music" from the arcades.
http://www.ladykree.com/music/furelise.mid - CrackyJSquirrel, on 11/27/2007, -7/+105Ha, top that MAC!!!!!
- SideshowAlex, on 11/27/2007, -1/+86Laugh all you want, but I was in Laos a few years back and I got to talking to an owner of an internet cafe. He told me that one day one of the power supplies on one computer went up in smoke, and all of the staff walked out. They were worried about ghosts. Hehad to get in a monk in to bless the cafe before they would return.
- RoboDonut, on 11/27/2007, -0/+82"Wait! Here comes the crescendo!" *CPU explodes*
- tymme, on 11/27/2007, -0/+82"Kill your bossss.... Kill your bossssss...."
- pyrome, on 11/27/2007, -1/+79Uh...you might not want to put a magnet up to any sort of screen. It can screw the screen up.
- r2builder, on 11/27/2007, -2/+73You think the CPU fan has failed in this scanner? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHcV8vZ96OM
- iashraf, on 11/27/2007, -3/+73You still have a floppy drive?
- thesonofdarwin, on 11/27/2007, -2/+69"... Close the program. Unplug your router and modem for 20 seconds and plug them back in. Restart your computer. Have a nice day. *click*" is more like it.
- xb00t, on 11/27/2007, -9/+75I can thing a few more appropriate.
Europe - "The final countdown"
Door - "The End"
P.O.D. - "Boom"
How many can you think of? - imikedaman, on 11/27/2007, -2/+66Yeah, we all know the tech would actually respond by saying "yes, hello... *long pause* ...okay, hello? Yes, please make ensure that computer is the plugged into wall outlet" in what could vaguely be described as English. Then even as you scream in frantic horror about how the plastic casing of your computer is starting to melt, the guy refuses to budge from the scripted dialog tree he's attempting to read.
- leerayIG88, on 11/27/2007, -1/+64It's the FINAL COUNTDOWN!!! lalalala...
- sint4x, on 11/27/2007, -1/+63Yeah those bastards with personal computers. Oh wait.
- alperea, on 11/27/2007, -2/+58Hahah. I remember some lady telling me that her computer kept showing weird colors constantly changing. Even when the computer was off. I thought she was on acid. I realized that her speakers were next to her monitor, and the magnet was making that rainbow effect to the crt. Put a magnet up to the tv, you will see that effect.
- rocket97, on 11/27/2007, -1/+56Nelly - "Hot in Herrreeerreeeerreee"
- heavyd14, on 11/27/2007, -3/+55Its a BIOS feature. It would play independent of OS.
- Zippo, on 11/27/2007, -3/+54I can just imagine the development process...
"Well, we COULD have the computer display an error telling the user what's happening, and how to prevent their expensive hardware from being irreparably damaged... But let's just have it play a random piece of music instead. That'll be real descriptive and helpful to the user." - Xplorer, on 11/27/2007, -1/+50Its just a matter of time till we are billed $0.99 every time this "feature" is activated.....
- ShawnHunt, on 11/27/2007, -0/+44Or there are people out there who live in cultures other than your own without the benefits of the same education and experiences.
- trogdor282, on 11/27/2007, -9/+52What, no "Macs never need an exorcism" comment yet? Where are teh fanboys!!
- Haohmaru, on 11/27/2007, -1/+43Hey, read the article!
- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -12/+50At least make the songs at least mean something.
Small World After All for safe mode makes about as much sense as Tool's Third Eye for when there is no ram detected; it just doesn't.
At least a pick a song that would make sense- like King Crimson's I'm a Dinosaur would mean your PC is too old so you should think about buying a newer one... - futureb, on 11/27/2007, -0/+38*searches google patents*
- trentasaurus, on 11/27/2007, -1/+39I think you mean "The Doors", not "Door." Sorry, I couldn't let that go unnoticed.
- richlizard24, on 11/27/2007, -3/+38In the Mac World, changing hardware is aka buying a new computer.
- chugger1992, on 11/27/2007, -0/+35-congratulations, you have been selected to recieve a free iPod nano.
-WTF? - carcass350, on 11/27/2007, -3/+37This is not a MS issue. MSDN is simply providing a support article.
FTA "This is a design feature of a detection circuit and system BIOSes developed by Award/Unicore from 1997 on" - fuzzmeister, on 11/27/2007, -0/+34I'd be perfectly fine with replacing my CPU when it fried, as long as it played the 1812 Overture and exploded first.
- dontaskagain, on 11/27/2007, -0/+32Queen -Another One Bites The Dust
- allywilson, on 11/27/2007, -0/+31How many people on digg do you think are now going to keep an eye out for 10 year old Award BIOS' then disconnect the fan? I know I am...I have a lot of old PCs at work that use Award :-)
Gather round childen... - gsadamb, on 11/27/2007, -0/+30Anything it tells you to.
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