On 10/3/08 10:19 PM, Ed Gould wrote: > I popped out the old one and put the new one in reconnected 1 or 2 > cables and powered it back up. All in less that 15 minutes. Ever > since then I was never afraid to touch the "workings" inside a PC. > Mac on the other hand, I have a friend who did a CPU upgrade and it > went OK but failed after 6 or so months. I have looked inside a bit > on my G5 and would be afraid to touch anything. Yeah, there are a lot of things we do inside our Macs -- we are pretty fearless -- but this was outside her comfort level given the possibility of electric shock. Kbase articles like this one (which isn't for HER exact computer) <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=95064> convinced her to go to the shop. Something about seeing the word DANGER! in red on the page. ~Linda