# Bios Troubles Booting Start OS **URL:** https://community.start9.com/t/bios-troubles-booting-start-os/591 **Category:** DIY Community **Created:** [August 19, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/bios-troubles-booting-start-os/591 "2023-08-19T20:09:27Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![OKIN](https://community.start9.com/user_avatar/community.start9.com/okin/32/262_2.png) [@OKIN](https://community.start9.com/u/OKIN) #### Post date: [August 20, 2023, 5:28pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/bios-troubles-booting-start-os/591/2 "2023-08-20T17:28:50Z")
Good day Chris, Sorry to hear about things not going the way you planned with your two Lenove DIY builds. Could you give us a bit more details on your hardware setup for both machines, as many things could be the reason for this when going the route of a DIY build? How much RAM; Storage (SSD?); etc. For instance, as stated in our ’ DIY Guidelines (x86\_64)', if you want to use a Bitcoin stack, you will want 8GB+ of RAM and 1TB+ of storage. In addition, if you haven’t yet, you can have a look at the forum post called [Known-Good Hardware Master List] Hardware Capable of Running StartOS]([[Known-Good Hardware Master List] Hardware Capable of Running StartOS](https://community.start9.com/t/known-good-hardware-master-list-hardware-capable-of-running-startos/66)). It has a list of all hardware that the DIY build has been successfully run on and even thought I do see Lenovo on the list, non of the models you mentioned are on there. To help save you some time, the ones listed for Lenovo are: - 720q Tiny (11-20w power draw) - x270 - Thinkcentre and Thinkcentre Tiny - Lenovo Thinkpad: - T470 - T550 It might be worth joining the DIY Community on Telegram as someone may have the same model build out you have → [Telegram: Contact @start9\_labs](https://t.me/start9_labs/43755) I do hope one of these resources help. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.start9.com/t/bios-troubles-booting-start-os/591)._