Re: Fake a PentiumIII PSN?

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From: Richard RUDEK
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 00:00

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"Matman" <jennerm@ozemail.gibberish.com.au> wrote:

>Does anyone know of a way of faking a processor serial number?
>I want to choose what my PIII reports when asked and I want my Celeron to
>look like a PIII in some circumstances.
>Has anyone come accross a crack or TSR for this?

Depends.

If you want to "fake" the identity of a CPU to a high level program run
under say Win95, then it is possible. But if you want to "fake" this to Low
Level program or an OS, then it becomes extremely difficult in terms of the
"v86 monitor/Piii emulator" not effecting performance and stability. 

Two examples that I know of programs that use "programming techniques" that
*could* do this are NuMega's SoftICE (debugging), and a Virtual Machine
Emulator call vmware. (www.numega.com and www.vmware.com, I think... too
lazy to check).
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Subject: Re: Fake a PentiumIII PSN?
Date: 1999/04/28
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