This weekend Dan and I attempted to add a 2GB RAM stick to his Mac Mini, since the RAM was on sale at Fry's and he needed more to run Garage Band. We followed the procedure as described here, but had a couple difficulties that I wanted to point out.
First of all, it seems that between the generation of Mini the tutorial guys disassembled and the current generation, the black cable next to the battery has been removed from the design. Not knowing that, we went after the closest black cable we could find, the one that goes from the IR transceiver/LED to the main board. In the first place, that cable does not need to be removed to get to the RAM. But, more importantly, I'm not sure it's removable anyway. We unfortunately ripped the two leads out of their terminals and never managed to get them back in, as the terminal plastic broke. So Dan's Mini doesn't have a working LED or IR receiver now (actually, I didn't think there was an IR receiver, but that's what the instructions say it is, so I'm going along for now).
The second issue we had was with seating the RAM. It takes a disturbing amount of force to seat the RAM properly, but you have to do it. If you boot the Mac with the RAM not well-seated, it apparently detects its presence and the fact that something is wrong, beeps and doesn't boot. So seat the RAM until you can barely see the tips of the gold terminals.
That's it for the new generation Mini: a) don't bother disconnecting any cables, and b) seat the RAM well the first time around.
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