Changing CPU on system information

[Guest]

Is it possible to make it appear a computer has a different CPU than what is actually displayed in the Control Panel/System and also in System Tools/System Information?

 

[Disastorpasztor]

1. why would you ever want to do such a thing?
2. there is probably a way, but it most likely will cause your system to not work properly. if you tell windows that you're running a pentium 4, yet you have an athlon, you're going to have problems.

 

[girish]

yes you can do that, but Disastorpasztor is right, you might run into problems if you report a wrong cpu to teh system.
1. you have to change the BIOS code. these days you can easily get the strings with the CPU name from the CPUID instruction, you need to hack the BIOS code to get it show what you want while booting.
2. you have a registry key that contains the information about the processor - [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Hardware\Description\System\CentralProcessor\0] wherein you can change the info regardnig the CPU name, vendor ID and some other things. be sure they are consistent and dont return vendorID as "GenuineIntel" for "AMD Duron(tm) Processor"

dunno what it does to your system, never tried that.

girish


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[CALV]

But if you change it, it changes itself back lol

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