Windows Vista on the Intel Alder Lake Platform

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Windows Vista on the Intel Alder Lake Platform

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My partner and I just built an Alder Lake system. I installed Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP2 with the Extended Kernel and it works great! There are absolutely no drift-like behavior as seen on Haswell (4th gen) thru Tiger Lake (11th gen). Here's a screenshot:

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Just like Windows 7, the processor cores do not show up in Device Manager, however it is recognized in System Properties. Ethernet drivers are also currently unavailable, however since I am friends with win32 and speak to him on a regular basis, I asked him if he could possibly get the ethernet drivers working. He said he would have to add functions to NDIS & ntoskrnl, but he could do it at a later time. Right now, I use USB wifi which works fine but I could just install a Vista-compatible PCI ethernet card if I wanted to.

Specs:

Asrock Z690 PG Riptide Motherboard

Intel Core i7 12700KF

32 GB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce 980ti GPU w/modded 398.11 drivers by win32

Samsung 870 EVO 2TB SSD

Windows Vista Ultimate SP2 x64

I may try UEFI at a later date with UEFIseven, but for the time being I am using Legacy boot with no problems. Windows Vista/7 also do not properly turbo the P & E Cores, however enabling High Performance in the BIOS simply makes the cores turbo up constantly so it runs great with no performance issues. I dualboot with Windows Server 2012, which does turbo the cores properly (and has drivers for everything, including ethernet).
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My Machine: (Dell Precision T3610 Workstation) [Intel Xeon 2667v2 @3.30ghz, 48 GB RAM, GeForce GTX 980ti, 120 GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD, two 1 TB Western Digital HDDs, Windows Vista Ultimate SP2]
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Re: Windows Vista on the Intel Alder Lake Platform

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Thus, the Haswell Time Distortion Paradox has come to an end.
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Re: Windows Vista on the Intel Alder Lake Platform

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WARNING for those who want to build a modern Vista PC: do not buy Alder Lake without E-cores, as the Haswell issues did not gone with that

https://msfn.org/board/topic/183939-windows-vista-on-alder-lake-system/?do=findComment&comment=1246107
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Re: Windows Vista on the Intel Alder Lake Platform

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WinClient5270 wrote: 19 Feb 2023, 23:49 My partner and I just built an Alder Lake system. I installed Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP2 with the Extended Kernel and it works great! There are absolutely no drift-like behavior as seen on Haswell (4th gen) thru Tiger Lake (11th gen). Here's a screenshot:

Image

Just like Windows 7, the processor cores do not show up in Device Manager, however it is recognized in System Properties. Ethernet drivers are also currently unavailable, however since I am friends with win32 and speak to him on a regular basis, I asked him if he could possibly get the ethernet drivers working. He said he would have to add functions to NDIS & ntoskrnl, but he could do it at a later time. Right now, I use USB wifi which works fine but I could just install a Vista-compatible PCI ethernet card if I wanted to.

Specs:

Asrock Z690 PG Riptide Motherboard

Intel Core i7 12700KF

32 GB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce 980ti GPU w/modded 398.11 drivers by win32

Samsung 870 EVO 2TB SSD

Windows Vista Ultimate SP2 x64

I may try UEFI at a later date with UEFIseven, but for the time being I am using Legacy boot with no problems. Windows Vista/7 also do not properly turbo the P & E Cores, however enabling High Performance in the BIOS simply makes the cores turbo up constantly so it runs great with no performance issues. I dualboot with Windows Server 2012, which does turbo the cores properly (and has drivers for everything, including ethernet).
Great Job On This Much Needed Project @Winclient You Really Are The Vista Guru Of The Modern Age And Hopefully Will Have More Great Projects In The Future
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