On Jun 6, 2008, at 5:12 AM, Paul Moortgat wrote: > The problem returned. I worked with my G5 yesterday and this > morning. Could put him to sleep and wake up again. This noon > after a wake-up, I got a frozen cursor and and each attempt after > was a black screen. So after changing the battery, it lasted not > even a day. What strikes me is that it did work. If the > motherboard or a processor is the problem, why then did it work? It may be that there is/was more than one problem going on here. Its also possible that your brand new battery is bad. I've seen that happen. They can sit on the shelf for years. ___________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html ___________________________________________