Now, if only people would notice Intel processors are actually identified by the signature (cpuid(1).EAX) *and* the platform id bits in MSR 17 (the "pf" or processor flags)... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh