Journal Entry: April 27, 2002

I’ve spent most of my spare time in the past two weeks building a new PC.  It’s been way more of an ordeal than I expected.  I’m not new to building homemade computers, but this one has been one of the most challenging ever.  I wanted to replace Sponge and Mollusk, my old Windows XP and Linux machines, with a single top of the line machine and a hardware firewall/router.  The whole setup finally works, but I learned some hard lessons.  Here are the top three:

• Windows 98 will not boot if you have a CPU of 2.2 GHz speed or faster
• Windows 98 will not boot if you have more than 1 GB of RAM
• GeForce 4 video cards are incompatible with SOYO P4S motherboards