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Fake ASUS motherboards circulate in Europe

5,000 found in France

By Mike Magee

Posted in Business, 1st April 1999 09:59 GMT

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A hardware site is reporting that over 5000 counterfeit ASUSTeK P2B motherboards are being distributed in France. According to Hardware Fr (http://www.hardware-fr.com/news/news.htm), the motherboards come from a Chinese factory. The site says you can recognise fakes because the rev number on the PCB is 1.04. That's a version that ASUSTeK discontinued at the end of 1998. You can find the rev number between the second and the third ISA slot. ®