Comes stable enough out of the box. Likes to accept most common retail components. There may be several issues with hard drive components during operating system installations. That very well will require bios access. And sometimes disk driver software or preconfigured disk devices media. It appears to be computed when installing from a USB disk and Several USB thumb drives. It also handles GPT convert very late and may not guarantee compatibility. OS may not find disk. And if you plan to connect to TV with HDMI, to my knowledge HDMI(dvi) works. This one requires monthly roll up updates to operate as a server.