play Music video for “Rhythm Nation”inside Janet JacksonIt may disrupt the operation of certain laptop models at the time of Windows XP and Devices hard disk crash. This curiosity was shared by Microsoft last Tuesday (16).
The issue occurred around 2005 when an unnamed computer manufacturer discovered that some of their devices had crashed while playing the song they had released. Michael Jackson’s sister On top of that, playing music loudly can also affect nearby laptops, causing the same error.
After investigating the case, the company made an interesting discovery, as Microsoft software engineer Raymond Chen explained. According to that, the music included one of the natural resonant frequencies for the 5,400 rpm laptop HD model used by and other competitors are also affected.
This way, run “Rhythm Nation” clip caused the hard drive of the laptop it was working on and others in the vicinity with the same hard drive model to start flickering. As a result, the machines stopped working due to the impact caused by the sound waves.
How was the problem solved?
in order to avoid Laptop crashes while playing Janet Jackson music videoAccording to Chen, the manufacturer needed to create “a special filter in the audio pipeline.” The tool, which was available at the time, eliminated the problem by detecting and eliminating the frequencies that were causing the problem while playing tracks.
A day after the story was revealed, the glitch was officially registered. vulnerability CVE-2022-38392. Since the bug has been fixed for several years, it is possible to play the clip without any worries.
Source: Tec Mundo
