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

> > 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.

Thanks, that will work for my scenario. I just didn't want to tamper 
with installation and the HDD. :)
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