Installed on an old MSI GP72 laptop, not sure all the specs but can pull from here Specification GP72 2QE Leopard Pro | MSI Global - The Leading Brand in High-end Gaming & Professional Creation. Uses 34W which is not special.
Successfully installed on a DIY ‘Cubit’ Nabi Technology
Motherboard: - [ODROID-H3] hardkernel.com
- Intel® Quad-Core Processor Jasper Lake N5105 has a base clock of 2GHz and a boost clock of 2.9GHz with 1.5 MB L2 and 4 MB L3 cache by a 10 nm process.
- Up to 64GB Dual-channel Memory DDR4 PC4-23400 (2933MT/s)
- Two SO-DIMM slots, up to 32GB per slot
- PCIe 3.0 x 4 lanes for one M.2 NVMe storage
- 2 x 2.5Gbit Ethernet ports
- 2 x SATA 3.0 ports
- SSE4.2 accelerator (SMM, FPU, NX, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AES)
- Intel UHD Graphics 24 EUs Turbo 800MHz(H3+:900MHz)
- HDMI 2.0 and DP 1.2 multiple video outputs
- A configurable Unlimited Performance mode allowing the CPU to run in sustained turbo boost mode.
- RTC / BIOS backup battery is included
RAM: - Samsung 32GB DDR4 PC4-25600 SO-DIMM
1 x Crucial P3 Plus 2TB CT2000P3PSSD8 M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD
2 x Crucial MX500 1TB 3D 6Gbps 2.5in SSD 560MB/s 510MB/s NAND SATA SSD - CT1000MX500SSD1
Blockchain synced in about 40hrs
I use a Lenovo ThinkCentre m93p. Recently, probably after an upgrade, it wont stay awake any more, it sleep all the time. Does anyone know the trick, on a Lenovo, to get it to stay awake?
Is there information anywhere, for how to enable “always on” for various machines?
Can you enter your BIOS with F1 or F2 after hitting the power button? If you can get to the BIOS Look for power management settings in the BIOS and adjust them accordingly. Be cautious when changing BIOS settings, as incorrect configurations can affect system stability.
If Rick’s suggestion does not work, please start a new topic for better issue tracking
2017 iMac with Intel and Fusion drive working great.
- 2017 iMac Intel Quad Core i5 3.8GHz
- 8GB RAM
- Fusion drive
- Wifi worked
More info about the Fusion drive success here: StartOS working on iMac with Fusion Drive
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Successful install
New ASUS PN41-S1 Mini Desktop Computer (Barebone)
1x 8GB Ram
1x Crucial P3 4TB PCIe Gen3 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD
Not using wifi, but it works, antenna seems weak.
Successful install!
Refurbished Lenovo M93P minicomputer (already in the list)
Intel I5 45670T
2x 8Gb RAM
2Gb SSD - Crucial MX500 SATA
Jumping in for a Bitcoin Core sync… wish me luck!
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Hello.
Could you tell me how can I find a raid card compatible with the minipc recommended (Start9 Refurbished - HP EliteDesk 800 G3 | Start9 Store) or what hardware should I buy?
Thank you
Have you found a way for using those HDD on a minipc?
RAID is not supported on StartOS (yet).
But no need for a raid card: your best bet if you want that any time soon is to run a VM system like proxmox that lets you manually construct volumes and mdadm raid or zraid or btrfs raid them. Then you’d create a VM of StartOS on top of the raid.
Here’s a guide that you could roughly follow:
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Thank you George. I’m following that guide. My problem now is with the hardware. I was looking at the minipc recommended but I have 4 HDD that I would like to use for storage a long with a sdd for the OS. Even with proxmox I think I cannot do that on the minipc so I need to find another hardware
Could you guide me here?
Here are a bunch of tower and mini tower cases:
https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100007583
Perhaps look through there and narrow your search results on the left for the appropriate number of drive bays that you need, then sort according to price or any other way you like.
If that doesn’t work, maybe go into a local computer shop and get the clerk to help you find a unit that will work with your drive needs.
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Keep in mind that we highly recommend against HDDs because your software is running on the drive(s), and you will get a serious performance degradation by using HDDs. You may prefer to wait for us to expand storage options later this year.
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Successfully installed on Dell Optiplex 7040 Micro, 16GB RAM, Intel(R) Core™ i7-6700T CPU @ 2.80GHz 2.81 GHz, VirtualBox running on Windows 11 Pro. Small HDD, will be upgrading to larger SSD. Just tried this to see if I could figure it out.
Successfully installed StartOS on Lenovo ThinkCentre M710t with Intel i7, 16GB ram and 2tb ssd.
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Same here pretty much… Successful Install!! STARTOS v0.3.5~1
Dell Optiplex 3050 Micro PC
Core i5 6th Gen
8GB RAM
2TB NVMe
Total hardware cost ~$200. Nice and easy install. Only thing was getting my other machine to trust the CA (how important that really is I don’t know), but i just bypassed the warning and it seems to work fine.
Thanks
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You definitely want to trust the Root CA - this establishes an encrypted connection, and is required for full use of your server.
I have tried this as well but my start9 instance kept restarting and always wanted to repeat the installation as the storage somehow wasn’t accepted on my UTM…
Thanks for your reply. I followed the instructions to trust the Root CA and when I go to the .local url it says ‘Root CA Trusted!’, but in the search bar it says ‘Not secure’, and if I continue to login, as prompted, then ‘Not secure’ is in red… Not sure how to solve this. Tried it on PC and also on laptop, both connected to the same network in the LAN, laptop by wifi, PC by ethernet. Was wondering if it is possible to just connect locally with http only… If not I am a bit stuck. Any help or advice would be appreciated.