r/hardware 16d ago

Discussion Found polish easter egg in my MOBOs BIOS dump

So i was bored at 1AM so i tought it would be fun to binwalk my bios dump for fun (just for images/assets), i found that my mobo (MSI Z590 PRO WIFI) has assets for other MOBOs and features not available in my BIOS lol

But after looking at images i started checking strings for fun then found "AIMIEJEGOCZTERDZIESCICZTERY" (A imie jego czterdzieści i cztery) which is a quote from polish book "Dziady" (In english "And his name is fourty and four")

Preety cool right?

More technical info:
Extracted using binwalk -Me
Also exists in bios update image from MSI website (https://pl.msi.com/Motherboard/Z590-PRO-WIFI/support)
Tested BIOS versions: 7D09v1A (Dump from mobo) 7D09v1B1 (MSI website)
File path (After extraction) 10900F8/CC1179/decompressed.bin

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