Thanks Jack..I think I "can" handle the CPU install..but the motherboard is another thing. I appreciate your info tho! Jackie In a message dated 7/30/2005 12:49:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, Jack.Owens@xxxxxxx writes: It really has become much more simpler than a few years ago. Back a few years ago you had to jumper the correct CPU voltage and speed as well as many other things. Now days, most of that is automatically detected and taken care of by the motherboard. About the only jumpering to be done now days is for functions like wake on LAN and such.