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Default how to detect host id of a computer using excel

i don't agree, simply connect a modulo on the cpu of motherboard and
record anything else, but it is not vba, so ...

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Le 2013-01-05 22:47, CellShocked a écrit :

This claim is not true.

Intel CPUs have a unique identifier number which can be accessed though
their API. The motherboard serial number is an entirely different
animal, and BOTH numbers can be changed by way of changing either the CPU
itself, or the BIOS chip itself. some motherboards have a separate,
fixed chip which the real BIOS chip 'reads' to assign certain variables
in its operation. So, on those MOBOs, you will not change that ID
easily.