theres a christmas midi song playing from my pc speakers

[EKKC]

is this a virus? i shut down all my browsers and apps and its still here, should i reboot?!?!?! 🙁

 

[TitanDiddly]

Task manager?

 

[EKKC]

did that. but never mind now. i had a web page open on bitcomet. sorry

 

[BlueFlamme]

Its even better when you hear the music and the computer is powered down.

I had this happen to me once while checking inventory serial numbers in an unoccupied office. I could hear faint country music which I figured was coming from the next office. When I stepped out of the room I saw that this was the last office on the hall and the music had to be coming from outside. Good theory except that office was on the 8th floor. Went back in the room and confirmed the computer was off. The volume on the speaker wasn't changing the volume of the music. Finally I remembered that any length of wire with a current running across it acts as an antenna and it was picking up a local country station (these were super cheap speakers).

Of course before I powered the speakers off I had my supervisor go checkout the demon possessed PC, took her longer to figure out than me so I didn't feel bad 😀

 

[Spike]

I had this same thing happen to me back when I lived in the dorms. I had a 2.1 set of cambridge soundworks speakers (pretty cheap model) and the left speaker always had faint music coming from it as well as voices. It took me some time to figure out it was a radio station. This occured no matter what, even if they entire unit was off and unplugged.

After I moved out this never happened again so I figure it was just a fluke radio intercept.

-spike

 

[Buck Naked]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: EKKC
did that. but never mind now. i had a web page open on bitcomet. sorry

<-- Points and :laugh: 's

joins in

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: EKKC
is this a virus? i shut down all my browsers and apps and its still here, should i reboot?!?!?! 🙁

Teh intarweb pwns joo!

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: BlueFlamme
Its even better when you hear the music and the computer is powered down.

I had this happen to me once while checking inventory serial numbers in an unoccupied office. I could hear faint country music which I figured was coming from the next office. When I stepped out of the room I saw that this was the last office on the hall and the music had to be coming from outside. Good theory except that office was on the 8th floor. Went back in the room and confirmed the computer was off. The volume on the speaker wasn't changing the volume of the music. Finally I remembered that any length of wire with a current running across it acts as an antenna and it was picking up a local country station (these were super cheap speakers).

Of course before I powered the speakers off I had my supervisor go checkout the demon possessed PC, took her longer to figure out than me so I didn't feel bad 😀

😀 I was once working in an office on several machines at once... it was over the holidays, and there were only a few of us in the entire building. I suddenly hear a faint song (sounded like MIDI) coming from somewhere within the the stack of computers I was working on (they were all just stacked on a shelf, plugged into a 16 port KVM switch). I was dumbstruck... they were all supposed to be sitting at the windows desktop... I had not launched any browsers, they were behind a strict firewall, and they were all freshly imaged (from an image I built myself).

It took me quite a while, but I eventually figured out that some BIOS (can't remember the details) plays a song (songs?) when it encounters some kind of error. I can't remember whether it was "Jingle Bells" or "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"... but whichever it was, it was just repeatedly playing. It stopped as soon as I restarted the PC. I couldn't help but think of the movie Hackers, at the scene where a deep voice is slowly singing "Row, row, row your boat..." 😀 (Yeah, I'm that pathetic 😛 )

:laugh:

 

[cubby1223]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew
It took me quite a while, but I eventually figured out that some BIOS (can't remember the details) plays a song (songs?) when it encounters some kind of error. I can't remember whether it was "Jingle Bells" or "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"... but whichever it was, it was just repeatedly playing.

I've come across that too on a machine - though it was so long ago I forget what the error was that the bios was trying to report.