[wplug] fur elise?

[Robert E. Coutch]

I was going to ask what you were drinking the night before
and where I could get some.
I see your question was already answered by the more learned.

-Bob

On Thursday 31 March 2005 01:47 pm, Tim Lesher wrote:
> 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