Here's our first video from our new series with Raymond Chen, @ChenCravat. We asked him to tell us about the mystery wherein some music would crash a laptop!!??

Tell us about the time some music crashed a laptop

Aug 12, 2022 · 3:35 PM UTC · Sprinklr Publishing

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What song do you think crashed the laptops? (Answer coming next week in Raymond's blog devblogs.microsoft.com/oldne…)
19% Tie a Yellow Ribbon
12% Happy Birthday to you
25% Rhythm Nation
44% Ice Ice Baby
826 votes • Final results
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Raymond Chen has now posted a new article with more details on this musical mishap that crashed a laptop. devblogs.microsoft.com/oldne…

Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers

Not an artistic judgement. Just a technical one.

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Almost synonymous to captain crunch's take over of phone lins using Cereal Box Whistle
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Not at all. The phone network at the time used tones as a signaling mechanism. The whistle exactly matched one of the frequencies used to generate control tones. The HDD didn't have a command interface driven by audio frequencies; no "designed interface" was triggered.
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Well, the audio filter won‘t fix the problem, if you‘re honest. It’s just a hotfix. If some competitor‘s notebook is not vulnerable (or other devices) and plays that frequency, you‘re still screwed.
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I was once working on a new desktop computer and I found that playing the game 101 Monochrome Mazes would reliably crash the machine. The hardware boffins investigated and discovered the trace to the speaker on the motherboard was too close to the reset trace.
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One of my favorites is your BSODing the building story with the faulty NIC driver.
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Kind of reminds me of of Mazda issue with the podcast @99piorg 99percentinvisible.org/episo…

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Same thing happens for tall buildings in seismic zones. If the frequency of an earthquake matches the natural frequency of the building. Then the building goes bye-bye.
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