Re: Is there a way to tell if an Intel CPU can do 64-bit or not?

Ant wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I have a few years old Pentium 4 machine, but I don't know if it can do 
> 64-bit. Is there a way to check without installing and running the 
> installed OS? Can I use a LiveCD (which one?), look in BIOS/CMOS 
> (didn't see anything to mention it), etc.?
> 
> Thank you in advance. :)

You can always download one of the 32-bit Linux live-cd's, such as 
Ubuntu. Once you boot up into the cd, then all you would have to do is 
run the command "more /proc/cpuinfo" at a command prompt. It should show 
as one of its flags that either EM64T or AMD64 or x86-64 or x64 or 
something like that is sup****ted. I would assume it's most likely going 
to be called x86-64 under Linux.

	Yousuf Khan