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[–] LodeMike 43 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Literally why would someone make that. That is completely indistinguishable as a signal.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 69 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean I guess you are supposed to take it to your computer repair shop and tell them it won't stop playing Für Elise, and the shop is supposed to recognise it as a failure of CPU fan signal. If it just beeped a few times on startup then people would ignore it, and if it beeped constantly then well maybe Für Elise is nicer.

[–] LodeMike 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Huh yeah that's MUCH better than throwing a post code and playing a beep during startup to signal something is wrong.

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sadly, many motherboards don't have POST code displays.

[–] LodeMike 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Hm. Well if the motherboard can play a song it can blast " Error" during startup to be infinitely more helpful.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 22 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I don't think those speakers are capable of voice. They can handle a few different beep tones and that's about it. The song was not like listening to Spotify, it was played using beep tones.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

I had an Athlon motherboard with voice POST messages… one night I woke up to it saying “your CPU has a problem!” over and over and was freaked out until I was completely awake and figure out what was wrong.

It wasn’t high quality coming through the piezo speaker, but it was good enough.

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I definitely remember short 2 or 3 second clips of relatively high quality music being played through our family's IBM XT's motherboard speaker at one point using a demo we got from a BBS or the Public Domain Software site in the mid-80s. It wasn't easy but some madman made a proof-of-concept that did it and it was incredible at the time.

[–] awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Would any of your tech-handicapped relatives actually pay it any attention, though?

[–] LodeMike 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] LodeMike 2 points 4 months ago

Tip: be passive aggressive and sarcastic when helping them. It both teaches them the solution in a memorable way, makes them not want to get help from you again, AND makes them think twice before doing so.

[–] LodeMike 1 points 4 months ago
[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

"my shits fucked yo"