Refer to page 23 of the attached BioStar 1.93 Administrator's manual
BioStar supports the following operating systems:
- Windows 10 (32bit or 64bit)
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- Windows 8 (32bit or 64bit)
- Windows 7 (32bit or 64bit)
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Windows Vista
- Windows Server 2003
If it is not listed on this list, our QA team has not tested on that specific operating system and we can make no guarantees.
However we have seen BioStar 1 work in customer sites where they install Windows Server on a virtual machine (VM).
Minimum system requirements for installing and operating the BioStar software:
- CPU: Intel Dual Core or similar processor, capable of processing speeds of 1.5GHz or faster
- RAM: 2GB
- HDD: 5GB
Recommended requirements:
- CPU: Intel Quad Core or similar processor, capable of processing speeds of 2GHz or faster
- RAM: 4GB
- HDD: 10GB
Last official 2nd generation firmware applied with BioStar 1.93:
BEW2 : 1.1.5 - 20171026
BS2 : 1.5.0 - 20170927
BSA2 : 1.4.0 - 20170927
BSL2 : 1.2.4 - 20170830
Download link:
Used Visual C++ redistributable:
Note: this is installed automatically when you install BioStar server, but if it is not installed properly or deleted manually, the service will not run.
[~ BioStarV1.92]
Visual C++ redistributable 2005
[BioStarV1.93]
Visual C++ redistributable 2005
Visual C++ redistributable 2008
Visual C++ redistributable 2010
Visual C++ redistributable 2015