[wplug] fur elise?

[Ed Stewart]

Humm! I learn something new everyday....Ed

Robert E. Coutch wrote:

>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:
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>>On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:10:08PM -0500, Duncan Hutty wrote:
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>>>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:
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>>http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=261186
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