Is the O/S Compatibility of a motherboard important?

[ZombieLover97]

Hey everyone!!

A friend of mine wanted to know if is the O/S Compatibility important
(I also wanted to know that 😛 )

He has a P5KPL-VM motherboard with windows 7 (but in the site of asus is said that the o/s compatibility is up to vista not 7)

He has P5KPL-VM with Core 2 Quad Q6600 (not OC) , 4gb RAM , 9600 GT ASUS HDMI Edition

So does the O/S compatibility matter?
and
What are the consequences of having a non compatible O/S??

 

[holyprof]

The motherboard was launched before Windows 7, 8 or 10 existed. That doesn't mean it will not work. I have a similar one, P5QPro with Q6600 and it has worked flawlessly with Vista, 7 and now 10. By the way, I had a 9600 GT as well, at the time!

 

[The Paladin]

I run a Q8200 8GB P5QL-VM GT720 and I run Windows X64 on mine just fine.

actually the issue about OS is more getting for example a Ryzen 5 and expect Windows 7 to run on it... it dont not without serious tinkering

 

[ZombieLover97]

so there will be no problem??
Because sometimes (not everytime) when he starts his computer it restarts almost right after the windows startup
and I though that the mobo's O/S compatibility might be the cause

 

[The Paladin]

what power supply are you running. ? reboots are usually a hardware (but not exclusive) to a memory, video, or power supply issue.
but to answer your question, not related to the operating system, (least likely anyways)

 

[ZombieLover97]

well actually I have no idea about the power supply
I didn't think about it and I didn't asked him about his PSU
But These problems started after he changed from windows vista to windows 7 (I was the one who changes it)
Before that everything was ok

 

[ZombieLover97]

what power supply are you running. ? reboots are usually a hardware (but not exclusive) to a memory, video, or power supply issue.
but to answer your question, not related to the operating system, (least likely anyways)

It started after He formatted his pc and then he installed windows 7
before it was fine (I formatted his hard drive and I installed his windows 7 in the hard drive)
He had vista

 

[The Paladin]

when it reboots does it do a blue screen of error ? BSOD ?

 

[ZombieLover97]

when it reboots does it do a blue screen of error ? BSOD ?

Yeah it does 🙁

 

[The Paladin]

are you able to get to safe mode? if so the minidumps will be on the c:\minidumps directory can you make one available for review to us?

 

[ZombieLover97]

are you able to get to safe mode? if so the minidumps will be on the c:\minidumps directory can you make one available for review to us?

I will try
What are the minidumps?