I've just built a desktop PC and installed OPENSTEP 4.2 on it.
Compaq Deskpro EP 500:
• Intel Pentium-III 500 MHz Slot 1 CPU
• 128 MB SDRAM
• Intel 440BX chipset motherboard
• Matrox G200 8 MB Graphics card (AGP)
• Intel SB82558 10/100 Mb Ethernet card (PCI)
• Creative Labs Sound Blaster sound card ES5805 (PCI)
• Adaptec 2940AU Ultra SCSI card (PCI)
• Iomega Jaz drive (SCSI - internal 2GB version)
• Samsung DVD-ROM drive
• Floppy disk drive
• 8 GB Yansen 2.5" PATA IDE SSD with a 44-pin to 40-pin IDE connector adaptor [2 GB partition for OPENSTEP]
• Compaq PS/2 keyboard and mouse
Everything works well including colour graphics and sound, but I have an odd networking problem: On a fresh boot, I can log in and the network is functional, I can connect to the Internet, ping hosts, browse web sites with OmniWeb; but within a couple of minutes, I lose network connectivity completely, it just stops working with no obvious error messages on the console. My network card is a PCI model using the Intel 82558 chip. I am using the latest Intel 8255x drivers I could find. I have another PCI card using the 3COM 3c509c chip, but I couldn't get the OPENSTEP driver to recognise it.
Thanks
EDIT: Problem appears to have been fixed, the DIMM memory module in the machine was flaky and giving memtest errors after an hour or so of stress testing. Replaced the RAM and now OPENSTEP works flawlessly, including networking and sound. Very happy. I've also replaced the floppy drive with a Gotek FDD emulator and this also works perfectly under OPENSTEP. Highly recommended, as it completely replaces the functionality of conventional floppy disks.