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KB261186: Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music

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Funny coincidence - In Taipei, this tone means the garbage truck is here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs5FekrLO7o

Quite fitting though. Since the tune starts playing, left powered-on, the PC is going to turn into a hunk of junk soon. :) :)

There's a child's riddle related to that: http://kids.yam.com/riddle/riddle.php?aid=505309&sid=0

The riddle goes: How many lights does a garbage truck have?

The answer: Nine of course! Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun.

It's funny only if you understand that the sound of the word for 'light' is the same as the sound you make when sounding out notes.

Oh, wow. I totally had this on one PC back in the day. I thought I was going insane, cause these were the times when I was spending way too much time in front of the screen.

It should have played "Ride of the Valkyries", as in "I love the smell of a burning motherboard in the morning."

"Clippy don't surf."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LQhf17i33g

I know fur elise, but I haven't heard 'it's small, small world'. I can't even find the file in Windows 2000. Does anyone know the music?

They probably mean “It's a Small World (After All)”, from the Disneyland ride.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LeQogBE9oM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Small_World

I believe the sound data is stored in the hardware not the OS. It just so happens to be an MS support article but it says it is a hardware failure (or imminent failure) notification.

I remember these times.....Fur Elise playing usually meant overheating issues....I had many a freaked out customer call me about being hacked. Though times haven't changed much, now whenever their internet/facebook/gmail etc.. doesn't work i get the same calls lol

I actually got this one when I was working antivirus tech support.

I prefer Ode to Joy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JwU5mcIwDw

Huh. Might have been better to pick "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer". That way you'd know what to do when you figured it out...

Well, you could say "It's a small, small world" might let you know it's about to get quite a bit smaller, from a digital point of view...

"So I got your budget proposal for the new motherboard line, everything looks great except for this line item here, 13.4 Million dollars in song royalties? Can you explain that?"

No relation to random Pavarotti syndrome?

Brilliant!

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