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- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+159Innaccurate. Microsoft is good enough to include the information in one of their own KB articles, but if you actually *read* the article, you would see that "this is an indication sent to the PC speaker from the computer's BIOS that the CPU fan is failing or has failed, or that the power supply voltages have drifted out of tolerance. This is a design feature of a detection circuit and system BIOSes developed by Award/Unicore from 1997 on."
Windows is not designed this way, the BIOS is, on certain mainboards. Which means that it would do the same thing if you were running *nix on the box. Besides that, the problems that the music indicates are CPU fan failure or PSU failure - both pieces of hardware, and neither having anything to do with software of any kind, let alone Windows. - actionscripted, on 10/12/2007, -2/+67Do article posters even read what they're submitting anymore?
- meatstack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+63This just in: The RIAA is suing Award Bios for stealing their music.
- actionscripted, on 10/12/2007, -8/+58Good, you shouldn't have even tried. Stop polluting Digg with dupes, ass hole.
- SmurfButcherBob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+44Yep, this is a totally stupid assertion. My bios, for example, can be optioned SPEAK when voltages, fans, etc, fall out of tolerance. Windows (and Microsoft in general) is irrelevent; these are vendor-specific mainboard features.
- leehodge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36Ok, you hate Microsoft - but please read the article.
It is the bios that is playing the music, not Windows - TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33RTFA
- evilkat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Someone didn't read the article....or doesn't know the difference between a BIOS and the OS :)
- ZaNkY, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21That's true, Microsoft makes Operating systems! Congratulations! Pat yourself on the back, really!
Dude if you READ MICROSOFT'S site you would know that Microsoft does NOT claim responsibility for the tunes, because Microsoft does NOT MAKE BIOSes.
Read the article again. - Wavey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I would rather it played something more sardonically appropriate like "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" when my computer craps out...but hey
- john2kx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16windows or no windows, that's just awesome..
"...your computer may play 'Fur Elise' or It's a 'Small, Small World' seemingly at random." - 0siris, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16You guys got it right.
burried
and everyone else should too, and show the power of digg corrections. - burke, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12umm, this from i440? For some reason it doesn't come across as sincere :P
- fmaxwell, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11BURY this now.
That's why Digg has a "Bury it" button with reasons like "inaccurate."
If you want to bad-mouth Microsoft, do it for something that they are responsible for, not because they tried to provide helpful information about another company's products. - ZaNkY, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9@Justin6512
For your convenience I quoted your previous post, please review it:
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how is it inaccurate? it's a link directly to microsofts official site. I think they know what they're talking about since it's their operating system.
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Yup, you know the difference between a BIOS and an OS..... [/sarcasm] - Tomamama, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7It may be inaccurate, but a friend of mine claimed that their computer would wake them up at odd hours of the night occasionally playing classical music. I thought they were crazy, but this could have been it.
- Rice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6http://www.eeggs.com/items/529.html
- Kwekubo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Didn't some peripherals manufacturer bring out a printer that, when you press all the buttons, plays Ode to Joy by whirring up the little motor inside at different speeds?
- oatmeals, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8@justin
Did you read the first post on this page? Just because it is on Microsoft's page doesn't mean it's due to their OS. It is a bios function that causes this, not Windows. - bravecoward, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10Is this like playing the world's smallest violin?
- Hurricane, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7buried for being inaccurate
- Bob042, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Even though it's not windows that does this, it made me laugh. I know I would have to give a WTF if my computer played a little song instead of booting...
- Loonacy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Using Ludwig van like that! He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music!
- drspin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I remembered an old 8088 PC which would play Fur Elise when you kept the reset button depressed. That was, 20 years ago or so?
- szembek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I don't ***** care.
- SIGINT, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8Everyone should bury this article down. It's so stupid, it's not even funny.
- DataSurfer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3BIOSes developed by Award/Unicore != Windows
- UltraPope, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yep, used to be a techie in a comp shop that had a solid deal with the local DFI importer. Easy to discern the problem when the computer is playing Für Elise...
- szembek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2And someone didn't read the other 50 posts that already said that before him!!
- Hindu_Wardrobe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Holy *****, this seems like something from one of my computer nightmares...
- leshert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It's very unlikely that it's MIDI, unless they figured out how to embed a MIDI synthesizer into the leftover bits of what was at the time a minute space available for a BIOS. ;-)
What is more likely was that they wrote a very small FM synthesizer that just drove the built-in speaker directly (the way we used to play music on Apple 2s, incidentally). - endorphine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3This digg should be called "DIGG intelligence test"! LOL!!!
Can't believe the OP was stupid enough to think Microsoft built this into Windows! LOL!! - flarn2006, on 04/04/2008, -0/+1If it was of your choosing, then it wouldn't be random, now would it?
- micromause, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Buried
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Poor reading. What a pity.
- ZaNkY, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3@Araya213
From the Article: "This is an indication sent to the PC speaker from the computer's BIOS that the CPU fan is failing or has failed, or that the power supply voltages have drifted out of tolerance. This is a design feature of a detection circuit and system BIOSes developed by Award/Unicore from 1997 on."
Nowhere does it say that Windows does ANYTHING. The BIOS has full and complete control over the PC, and can send commands at will if it needs to. You could say that the BIOS hijacks the PC and completely bypasses Windows to get direct access to the speakers.
What puzzles me is that I thought that Windows (at least from NT 4 up) had a hack that would totally bypass the BIOS and render it inoperative after boot. I thought that Windows implements its own BIOS (software level) with its own Interrupts and vector tables for Windows to use....? Can anyone correct me or back me up on that? - lukas88, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think I have heard this before, it plays with the computer's onboard speaker, not through your sound card. It sort of sounds like a ringtone from 1998.
- Hossimo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Buried... this is so 1980!
- Darkkish, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Wow... someone posted that the printer plays fur elise too, now i KNOW they are aware of whats even going on here.
- Darkkish, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3dugg anyways because its cool. now even though i might hear it in linux, atleast i know what it is now, and that could be important.
- chohada, on 09/08/2008, -0/+0Www.Chohada.fr le plus grand site pour les tubes
Chohada. Net est un Site Musical Maghrébin, basé sur un système de partage entre visiteurs : plus le site s'enrichit en contenu, plus il gagne en visiteurs, qui fournissent à leur tour du contenu.
Gnawa,Fusion,reggae,hard rock,Rap Marocain,Music Rai,Chel7a,Cha3bi,mp3 lhbal,char9i
http://chohada.fr/ - Rice, on 10/12/2007, -16/+16Inaccurate, but, I still think it's cool and worth a digg.
- cardoso, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Buried. RTFA, dude.
- Surreal, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Yeah, this is a bios feature, not a windows feature. Buried - inaccurate.
- mpredosin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1RTFA
- MikeMacMan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Inaccurate. Its the BIOS, not Windows playing the music!
"This is an indication sent to the PC speaker from the computer's BIOS that the CPU fan is failing or has failed, or that the power supply voltages have drifted out of tolerance. This is a design feature of a detection circuit and system BIOSes developed by Award/Unicore from 1997 on." - superalamar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4well, whoever designed this is an idiot. Why not have it order a pizza for the vatican and start spouting off "yo momma" jokes? seems just as infomative an error message to me.
even morris code would be better.... - grumpyrain, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Now if we could only get it to play a random mp3 playlist of our choosing.
- andrewr, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3I have had this happen along time ago, the "music" sounds awful and extremely annoying because it's all midi sounds.
- muffinmanpoo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Mmmm... sardines....
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