This hasn't happened to me (yet), but I recently ran across this Microsoft technical bulletin:
During normal operation or in Safe mode, your computer may play "Fur Elise" or "It's a Small, Small World" seemingly at random. This is an indication sent to the PC speaker from the computer's BIOS that the CPU fan is failing or has failed, or that the power supply voltages have drifted out of tolerance. This is a design feature of a detection circuit and system BIOSes developed by Award/Unicore from 1997 on.
Yeah, that's really intuitive engineering there, guys. I know that immediately I hear the haunting melody of "Für Elise," my thoughts turn automatically to CPU fan failure. (I understand that Beethoven was plagued with the very same problem, made all the worse because he couldn't hear it power down.)
Like it would have killed you to put up a warning message or something?
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