TL;DR: The song was unique that it used a slightly shifted tuning compared to standard musical scales. A low E in the shifted scale matched a 5400 rpm laptop drive’s resonant frequency, which caused the drive to error out on reads temporarily and eventually crash the OS.
The original weblog post with technical details
TL;DR: The song was unique that it used a slightly shifted tuning compared to standard musical scales. A low E in the shifted scale matched a 5400 rpm laptop drive’s resonant frequency, which caused the drive to error out on reads temporarily and eventually crash the OS.