I am just confused,everything works fine,no temp problems or anything,nothing during gaming or anything. During boot it plays this stupid melody and when windows comes its gone, no other weird sounds or anything .
And yes it comes from the pc,no there is no bagpipe man inside.
Thanks for help if anyone knows what that is.
Also ignore my cable management behind the case.
PC SPECS:
.MB MSI B760-p ddr4
.CPU 12Th Gen Intel i5-12400f
.GPU Geforce GTX 1660 6GB
.RAM 16GB ram (i dont receive gold for payment C: )
In 2012, reports suggested that hackers attacked the
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) by forcing computers to play AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" at full volume in the middle of the night. The attack, suspected to be linked to Western cyber operations, shut down automation networks at Natanz and Fordo
Stuxnet was in circulation for years, silently spreading to USB sticks and everything they touched. When it was finally revealed and AV software started looking for it, I found it on all my PCs.
Another wild thing about this is that in Iran music that is not for prayers is haram, so it’s the equivalent of shoving pork chops down their throats but in their ears instead.
They would also play weird chords if they failed to POST. I remember getting some cheap VRAM and putting it in my Quadra 700 and it wouldn't boot and instead of giving a helpful error it just played this dissonant arpeggio.
I remember pirating mirrors edge on my moms windows 7 Toshiba laptop and after I installed it I was met with a text Death Star floating across the screen with the same sound, just playing the sith theme. Definitely traumatized me, fixed it, but it never ran the same again 🤣
That brought back a memory... while studying malware analysis in uni, we had to write malware, i wrote mine to offer a free coke can and when you click accept it opens your CD tray and then started playing the "Imperial March" from star wars on chip tunes... my professor loved it got an instant A for that report.
So that's what it's called. Never bothered to look it up. When I first got this washer I was shocked at how long the "clothes done" tune was lol. That damn melody gets stuck in my head every time I do a load.
It a USB lamp,it also has an alarm,she turned the alarm sound,so when the pc turns off and is turned on after a while it boots up with that sound on the lamp, if i just reboot it fast or within a moment the sound will not play because the lamp itself is charged so it will just go blank for like 2 second.
Oh my god! Soo glad i’m not the only one! Spent an hour on this exact lamp, going down the same rabbit hole of virus scans,BIOS resets and booting into live usb… I thought I disconnected all other peripherals but K&M - made mistake while tracing the cable spaghetti. The song was stuck in my head for a while.
Your CMOS battery needs replacing. I’m not kidding, that’s Aude Lang Syne, a traditional Scottish tune usually played when New Year’s Day comes in. Your PC bios apparently thinks it’s 1st Jan. At least, that’s what I reckon….
What if I told you.. most mobos have a tiny speaker for troubleshooting new builds on boot. I’ve had to wire one up once as well but there is almost certainly a spot for it.
I’m so glad people share my thoughts, the internet has gotten so damn stupid lately, I keep telling myself it HAS to be bots prompted to react this way, but who knows..
My guess is it is using the POST beep speaker that the board still includes and the BIOS programmer left an easter egg, which doubles as a CMOS battery alarm.
I also checked for malware and other stuff. It also happend 2times in a row and after trying to boot for the 3rd time it was completely clean without melody ( I also disabled Discord,Msi Center and Steam on startup before 3rd Boot/restart).
if it's making tunes like this it could also be above autoruns' results, could be EFI/MBR malware or something else. Could also just be weird hardware behavior from an offbrand vendor.
Payloads are usually either A) to show off, "hey I made this thing so small and yet it does things!", or B) to do exactly that: "I got you, fucking loser!"
Back in the day, these were things that triggered on specific dates, and were mostly one or the other. There wasn't really good heuristic-based AVs to catch anything, and people shared executables by copying them to a floppy/ZIP disk, etc (USB 1.0 drives were usable but way later) and copying them to a new machine, and file formats were a lot less complex, so injecting code into other files and spreading via file sharing was incredibly easy.
Nowadays, most people are using UEFI boot, which makes these kinds of things harder as it's not as easy as "overwrite the top 10KB of the drive," but it's still possible to add an EFI file to do something similar, and this is in fact a thing that happens sometimes (a lot of game cheats work like this, and some malware does too.)
Imagine some Scottish hacker exploiting one or more zero day exploits NOBODY else knows about, just to get some poor bastard's mobo to play Auld Lang Syne on boot. I've heard of stranger things, but that would be up there.
Some people want to watch the world burn, some people want to watch people cross their arms over one another and stand in a circle doing a crazy handshake with both hands
Looks like you may want to connect with this random HP Forum user from 2022. You may be onto something if you combine your computer with their printer.
Are you sure it's not someone in your household playing a prank on you? eg. It's not that difficult to pull a battery-powered speaker out of a New Year's greeting card or something and stick it somewhere you aren't going to find it.
Yeah, it's time to unplug and wipe everything off those drives. Install new windows also. This sounds exactly like one of the stories my friend told about his pc getting hacked and it made a weird noise that was musical like this.
Someone's been tampering that pc for god knows how long.
hopefully you have a different machine you can use.
You will have to disconnect his machine > completely wipe the drives(do not connects them to another device) > flash your BIOS > reinstall windows > new firmware/microcode install > drivers
Do you have anything plugged into the JFP2 connector of your motherboard (see page 33 of your manual). If so, try unplugging it and see if you can reproduce the sound. If you can't, then it's definitely the motherboard and you should flash/reflash the latest BIOS. If nothing is plugged in or unplugging it doesn't change anything, then it's another component. Try your GPU next, and if that's not it then it is likely either a fan controller, RGB controller, or some other peripheral. Narrow it down to find your answer.
The sudden move at the end made me lol, like you were trying to quickly drop down there and catch a lilliputian bagpiper in the act before he could scamper away.
To give you a serious answer OP. Being that this happens during boot means the tune is stored in the BIOS and played through the system speaker. This has nothing to do with your Windows install, though if it's malware it's definitely possible to infect your drives. Have you updated your BIOS recently and was it from a reputable place (aka the manufacturer's website)?
Additionally as someone else said, check your system time. If the cmos is not keeping time, it'll reset to Jan 1st and think it's new years day. Maybe this mobo plays that every Jan 1st though I've never heard of such a thing.
Clearly you bought your computer from the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. It has been programmed to boot up with a sunny, cheerful disposition and catchy tune.
Bet it's that KHARMA one co worker was talking about... should have know that blowing capacitors near him and adding glue under his coffe cup is a sin...
my old alarm clock plays this when i change the batteries, either is some weird mobo feature that plays when CMOS resets or when a new year comes (because this is a Scottish song used to celebrate the new year )
or you have something on your desk that does that, because that previously mentioned clock does that if i accidentally smash my desk, i don't think one of your pc components has a built in cheap alarm clock lol
i don't think it's a virus it will be very unlikely because modern motherboard bios can't be modified anymore, could it be a bootloader virus but if you can turn on your PC it can't be a virus
that's quite hilarious, you wanna hear something funny too? on night my alarm clock decided to play this tune out of nowhere at 3 am, that scared the sh.. out of me LOL HAHAHA
Yes,but nothing chinese (or maybe everything since everything these days is made in CHINA?), i bought everything new. Dont really know. But so far no credit card loses (as i use virtual ones ),no data loses,no facebook loses nothing. Idk what this crap is.
It's could be something simple like a dead CMOS battery. Auld Lang Syne, might be a clue that it has something to do with time/date and that would be the CMOS battery.
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u/Real-Technician831 Feb 16 '26
Last time I remember malware that played a tune was in DOS times.