Raymond Chen, one of Microsoft’s representatives, talked about a song that disabled laptops on the company blog. Here are the details of the interesting topic.

Microsoft’s head software developer Raymond Chen shared a story on the company’s blog day on the days of the Windows XP operating system.

According to Chen, an unnamed “large computer manufacturer”, Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” music video, while some laptops collapsed. The fault was observed not only on laptops playing the clip but also on the nearby laptops. Then, similar problems began to appear on the laptops of other manufacturers.

As a result, it turned out that the song contains a sound that resonates with a certain hard disk model. During the playing of the clip, sound waves from the laptop speakers caused the 5400 RPM hard drive to vibrate, which caused the laptop to fail. In the end, the manufacturer found a simple solution to the problem and forced laptops not to reproduce this frequency with a filter he added.

It is not explained which laptops and hard drives of the story are told. The experiments showed that hard drives could be destroyed with the help of a special program that reproduces the sound at a scream or a certain frequency.