[wplug] fur elise?

[Tim Lesher]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:10:08PM -0500, Duncan Hutty wrote:
> ok here's a little weirdness: I was woken up yesterday morning to the 
> sound of "fur Elise" by Beethoven. It appeared to be coming from one of 
> my computers but I'm not sure because I was feeling rather wonky. I 
> forgot about it.
> This morning it happened again and I'm getting irked. On googling I 
> discovered that this is sometimes done by various PC BIOSes upon 
> detection of the voltage from the PS drifting out of tolerance or 
> possibly fan problems. But supposedly it only happens on boot and 
> clearly I wasn't booting any of my machines at the time. The machines 
> that are there a a sun ultra5 and a compaq presario of about 2002 
> vintage I think.
> 
> Has anyone seen this before and can shed some light?

Yep.  It's not just at boot time--it can happen on any Award BIOS when
the CPU fan or power supply is going bad.

Microsoft even has a KB article on it:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=261186

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Tim Lesher <tim at lesher.ws>
http://www.lesher.ws