Disk initialization errors on brand new HDDs. The lovely repeating problem of Explorer freezing if I move, copy, or delete a lot of files (seems to be a fault of IE6). Not being able to restart because of mysterious processes it has to 'end task'/kill (with no name of that process in the blue header). places I was clicking) will pop-up all of the sudden.and usually crash afterwards. I'm talking minutes then a whole bunch of things (i.e. Most common problems is the computer hanging.and I don't mean for like 5 or 10 seconds. Here's an overall photo album of random errors I took pics of. This post was this weekends new fails if that helps as well. rant of all the sorts of problems I've had. The spoiler below is from this post (where you can get a better idea of the problems and what I've tried) and is a laundry list (i.e. Used an official Windows 98 CD and over the course of ~4x Windows installs get blue screens, missing DLL files left and right, black can't-boot-any further screen, etc. NEW MotherBoard, NEW RAM, switched in another stock power supply, used a 40gb mechanical drive (tested ALL sectors 100% clean too), and literally only have plugged in a CD-ROM drive, a TNT2 video card, keyboard/mouse/monitor. Since everybody is telling me it HAS to be a bad part or a bad driver my last weekend trials has been to literally strip everything down to the bare minimum. I think I've covered the gamut that it's not one, or two, or even three parts that are failing since I've used so many of everything. 3x different Slot 1 Processors (and 370), 5x video cards (well, 3x video cards + 2x Voodoo2's), 4x sets of RAM, 3x mechanical HDD's, 2x SSD's (and 1x SD card, 1x CF card), 6+ SATA to IDE adapters (and a PATA/IDE/SATA PCI card), 4x audio cards (1x ISA 3x PCI), 3x power supplies, 4? CD/DVD burner drives, etc. Used numerous different Windows ISO's (MD5'd and all), and an official Win98 disc (and have another SE on the way). I've done OVER 30 WINDOWS SE INSTALLATIONS. Spent about 150 hours over the last 6 weeks, way more money than I'm willing to admit (these can't be found locally by me), bought 3 different working computers (and revived one I had ~20 years ago), and I still can't get a stable Win98SE computer up and running. I've failed, and failed harder than I ever have on any other gaming project.

My final frontier, like literally the last retro gaming thing I wanted to do was get a Windows 98 SE computer setup and running with later DOS games, and early Win95/98 games. I have all my consoles I want modded, RGB everything, Everdrives, ODE's, CRT's, Upscalers.the works.

Phils computer lab