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[celsoleaes]

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Hello everybody. My name is Celso, I'm from Brazil.

[RogueVol]

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Hello! My name is Mike and I am in TN. I am looking to repair an LCD monitor rather than replace it.

[FabioMen10]

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Hello there!

[MeltedDuron]

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Hi everybody! I'm an amateur tech and have found this site to be an invaluable resource when repairing everything electronic, from TV's and computers to guitar amps, for myself and my friends/family. I would like to contribute to this community where I can

[Chahinsat]

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hello every budy
my name is chahin i am from algeria
i am a hardware and software technician
i like laptops phones and all electronic equipemants

[Snownomow]

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Hi hi!

Working on learning how to repair old computers, displays, etc.

Thanks for having me!

[Be4stElectrjc]

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Hi people, greetings from Italy.

[oscarchentwn]

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Hi everyone,

I am searching how to repair electric device. Thanks everyone.

[f7584]

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Hello everyone,

Been in the IT sector for more than 30 years, this site has lot of good information and friendly atmosphere. That is the reason I joined.

[dtones99]

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Hi everyone,

I'm an electrical engineering apprentice looking to fix my Tv and stumbled across this forum which seems like it's going to be quite helpful!

Always learning and testing myself so I cannot let anyone else repair this TV

[roscored]

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Hello everyone my name is rosco and I live in australia. I am over 60 and no real experience but have a Samsung 46 inch LED TV that clicks and clicks and clicks and then finally starts. I am able to follow instructions and hope to fix it myself.Whats the worst that can happen?

[life2]

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Hello everybody. My name is Pascal, I'm from France (Britain).Thank you for accepting my registration on this forum.

[n8ves]

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Good intro thread, You get to read a lot about the users here. I started my interest in electronics as a preteen. Started Dxing the BCB on an AA5 clock radio when I was nine. Played with the Altair 8080, Apple II and Trash 80 in my teens with my friends. I didn't buy my first computer until I was almost 25, a Commodore 128. At the time it ran circles around the IBM 8086. Wasn't until the 386 and the Amiga that the 64/128 couldn't keep up. Still have several C64's. Got my No Code Tech license in 1992. Upgraded to Tech plus with the code a few years later. Upgraded to General the night before they dropped the code requirement. A friend of mine (no code tech) passed the general exam that night an hour before I did. He called and was bragging about it. So I just HAD to take the test. Of course I passed and was granted my upgrade immediately (I had already passed the code requirement). He had to wait until midnight to refile and get his upgrade.

These days I volunteer for the Dayton Hamvention. If you ever get a chance to attend, look for me. Yeah, Yeah, how ya gonna find someone out of a crowd of 30,000? No problem, I'm the guy who wears the blue hard hat with a three foot crankup tower on top. Can't miss it...

[shahnld]

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As this is a brand new forum, I thought I'd open up a thread to encourage new members to introduce themselves a bit.. now hey.. let's not get too personal.. ok ?

And if you wouldn't mind to keep this thread "clean" let's try to keep the the chitchat (i.e. even the welcome to the board replies) to a minimum or this thread may get to 100 pages fast

So I'll start things off :

My name is petabyte and I'm a forum junkie. :oops: I've been off the wagon for a number of years and countless times I've tried to stop but it's useless.. I need to feed my learning addiction.. :!:

Now just a bit about me.. I'm a fairly secretive guy in terms of privacy on the net.. especially when the things you write are visable to anyone with a net connection. But I love to share the info and knowledge I have, so that's why I'm here, to share and learn.

my formal education is that of an electronic engineer and I held a field service position with a firm for over 20 years.. that job is gone now along with company car and laptop <cry> oh well..
So needless to say (but i will) I've always tinkered with things.. yes, a hacker.. (too bad that term lost it's orignal meaning) a hardware hacker mostly.. hacking fixes in whatever I find that breaks.. (except for cars, I have friends for that) I got started a little late into the computers, my first box was an ibm pc-xt with a whopping 10meg HD,blazing fast 4.66mhz 8086 processor, 640k mem running dos 3.3.. man was I cool back then.. :roll: nevermind..

so these days, I'm forced to be a software guy as well.. as I fix pc's for friends and that usually means cleaning virus/trojan/adware and reinstalling OS's.. yeah hardware breaks but not that often :cry: so as a result, I keep up on my software knowledge by visting a few security forums.. and trolling around a few hardware forums as well.

now I found this place from a thread at motherboards.org/forums
where I've been hanging out lately.. it's a nice friendly place with some pretty smart people.. mostly, of course, it's about mobo's.. So this person mentioned badcaps.net and I recalled reading articles a year or so ago about the faulty caps and was curious as to what you guys were up to.. and I said "w00t.. they have a forum"..

and so now.. you're stuck with me :P

so what's your story ? come on.. give it up..

Hi.

Nice to be here.

[shahnld]

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Hello there.


Shah from the nederlands. Elecrical engineer,. Working with IT Hardware as hobby,. Can not post a thread, will someone help me posting my question..?

Have a nice day

[Mitike]

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Hello Everyone,

Fellow DIY and electronics addicted PC (and basically all kind of electronics) guy here from Budapest (Hungary)
Now lives in the U.S. working on racing vehicles (build/design/develop) Bsc. in Computer Science Engineering (Any question is welcomed however I'm not a super pro... if I can help I help )

Here to learn and develop myself

[rzen]

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Hi all

i'm new to this board, looking for help on a specific issue, troubleshooting a power board for the 60PK540 plasma tv (by LG).

[Fosbond]

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Hi!!!! Im just perusing and learning

[ReyC423]

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Hey hey,
Would like to start by saying thank you for allowing me to partake in cumulative wisdom found here within this forum. All to often one is at a loss for proper insight regarding tech issues. Not to say I am a expert by any stretch of the definition,by far above a novice. I do have a few questions I'd like to pose,yet by obligation must follow through with the formalities... again,thank you.

[WilliamGarcia]

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Hi guys, Greetings from El Salvador I am an Electronic Technician, enter the world of computers when I was studying the first computer was a Commodore 64, with a black and white TV all in DOS, programming in BASIC and 5 1/4 floppy disk; Then came the electronics boom, (smaller integrated circuits, of modem communication technology to today's wireless (satellite)
Also everything keeps changing from cassette, to CD; DVD, SD and bulb (Triod), to transistors; IC, Microprocessors, FPGA and Cellular which has replaced several equipment
Thank you for the opportunity to be part of this great forum.
I would like to contribute to this community with what I can in Repairing everything that has electronic circuits.