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Patching the fake cache BIOS

During one of my adventures at the scrapyard, I picked up a 486 motherboard – the BEK-tronic BEK-V429S. As it turns out, this board had fake cache chips installed! If you want to see the full story, here is the video in which I discover that fake chips. But how is it possible that seemingly nobody caught on and identified the fake cache earlier? The company or individual who owned…
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