"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"
Should have made it play "Daisy, Daisy, tell me your answer do..."
Microsoft Support: Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music
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Re: Microsoft Support: Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music
#12Yet another instance where Macs are better (well, at least the old ones) ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g1-iPRw-5M&t=0m25s
I had a Centris 660AV and I used to play that crash sound over and over, it was hilarious.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's in the bios so it would happen if you were running any OS. Evidence of MS coolness still eludes us.
how about the flight simulator easter egg in Excel? that was cool microsoft always included cool easter eggs in their products http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_eggs_in_Microsoft_produc...
Not anymore. After the lawsuit about including the web browser with the system they are no longer allowed to include undocumented features in their software. (citation needed)
Re: Microsoft Support: Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music
#14Considering this was developed in 1997, this is actually an ingenious way to get "Joe Q User" to call tech support. They boot up their computer, and music randomly starts to play, they get scared, shut down and call tech support. It certainly won't work every time, but considering that this has to happen all within BIOS while the CPU is melting, it's a reasonably good idea.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
You were right : "This is a design feature of a detection circuit and system BIOSes developed by Award/Unicore from 1997 on."
So Microsoft actually suppressed this on Normal Mode, but not in Safe Mode. At least there's information about it somewhere, because I wouldn't expect it if I encountered it.
"During normal operation or in Safe mode, your computer may play "Fur Elise" or "It's a Small, Small World" seemingly at random. "
Re: Microsoft Support: Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music
#16I submitted this about 9 months ago...
Re: Microsoft Support: Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music
#17Oh, so THAT'S what that is! BRB, calling tech support.
Re: Microsoft Support: Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's in the bios so it would happen if you were running any OS. Evidence of MS coolness still eludes us.
how about the flight simulator easter egg in Excel? that was cool microsoft always included cool easter eggs in their products http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_eggs_in_Microsoft_produc...
Excel takes 154MB in disk... that's why!
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
how about the flight simulator easter egg in Excel? that was cool microsoft always included cool easter eggs in their products http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_eggs_in_Microsoft_produc...
Not anymore. After the lawsuit about including the web browser with the system they are no longer allowed to include undocumented features in their software. (citation needed)
no it wasn't then. It was around 2000 or so and more related to (as i remember) two things - securing government and enterprise contracts and public perception related to viruses and security. I was there as an employee in Visual Studio and distinctly remember the admonition from Brian Valentine that there were to be NO easter eggs in Win2K and on. They couldn't credibly say that they were in control of the security of the platform with people hiding doom levels in Excel and (in the case of Visual Studio) working slot machines...
Re: Microsoft Support: Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not anymore. After the lawsuit about including the web browser with the system they are no longer allowed to include undocumented features in their software. (citation needed)
no it wasn't then. It was around 2000 or so and more related to (as i remember) two things - securing government and enterprise contracts and public perception related to viruses and security. I was there as an employee in Visual Studio and distinctly remember the admonition from Brian Valentine that there were to be NO easter eggs in Win2K and on. They couldn't credibly say that they were in control of the security…
Working slot machines? Please tell me more...