My boss and I walked into one of our server rooms to look at a modem that was not working. This room also contains some machines used and maintained by the database group; we try not to touch their machines and let them take care of them.
As we walk in we hear a faint muffled sound, as if someone were speaking. It sounded vaguely like a telephone intercept message, so we figured maybe someone connected a telephone in the room and it was off hook.
As we tracked down the source of the problem, we found it. It was a newish machine which was sitting nestled among a bunch of older machines on the database group's rack.
I pressed my ear to it, and it was saying, repeatedly:
"Your keyboard and mouse may have a problem."
Nevermind that there was no keyboard and mouse even attached to the system; it was being used as a server. I went to talk to one of the database group managers and showed her the machine. She was as boggled as I was, and talked to her tech staff to come shut it up.
So yep, computers have talking BIOSes now. And they sound just like Jane Barbe.
Wierd
Computers not only talking, but talking a load of rubbish??? I usually fall out with my wife when she ends up talking a load of rubbish. At least with computers we can easily switch off the speakers.