Has anyone else noticed that Vista wants more volts to boot?

[RJ]

I've got my rig in my sig dual booting XP and Vista. It runs fine with my current settings in Win XP MCE. If I decide to fire up Vista to check for any relevant updates, it won't boot unless I bump the CPU voltage up.

So my assumption is not only is Vista a resources whore, but now it wants more power just to boot.

Has anyone else observed this behavior?

 

[dragonsprayer]

no - but it does slow your systems and require more resourses - more volts?

u mean more amps?

no thats not why - it could be alot things - bios auto configurations - thats weird! I have to think about this.

 

[randomizer]

Maybe its showing that your OC isnt actually stable at that voltage.

 

[bydesign]

Vista is far less tolerant of errors, I think that may be why. In XP my PC has no problem passing a 24hr stress test at 3.6GHz. It wont even boot in Vista those same settings...

 

[randomizer]

Which means vista will increase component lifespans by lowering OCs