New Members - please post your introductions here

[MisRedDiaster]

Hi everyone , I'm new, just here to learn . Thanks

[Mohammed Mecegguem]

Hi, my name is Amine. I'm an electromechanical engineer and an amateur TV repair enthusiast. I also have a hobby in electronics and enjoy understanding how things work

[itclicks]

Hi This is Sam Malik,
I have a computer repair business in Toronto. We repair MacBook and laptop logic board problems for local businesses.
In business for last 25 years.

Hoping to join this group and benefit form the community here and be a part of help for others with our experience.

Thanks
Sam

[carrzkiss]

Hello everyone.
I joined the group to get my Cyberpower PSU back to charging batteries again.
So far, I am truly amazed at how the community comes in, HELPS, and does not try to put you down for not knowing enough about what you are asking for help with.
I've been a member of other forums where the members will downgrade you for asking for help, and I tell you, it is nerve-wracking, to say the least.

Thanks, Badcaps, for having a friendly community of volunteers who actually want to help.
It means a lot to those of us who are either unfamiliar with the electrical parts of our lives or have forgotten things over the years.

Take care, everyone.
Wayne Barron

[FARES REPARATEUR]

'm from the algeria and have been interested in electronics for many years. I hate throwing things away so I stumbled across this forum where I might gain some extract knowledge on how to keep things working.

[masterit]

Hi all.

General tinkerer here. Background in analog electronics since I was 12. Now a business owner by day, IT Sysadmin network engineer by night, and 'reverse engineering hacker' when the curiosity strikes

Managed to figure out how to reset eeprom in the sybt5 APC packs for the symmetra LX and have been playing with eeprom programming ever since.

Throughout this experience learned how to smd and bgp solder where my prior experience stopped at through hole.

Know a bit of a lot in tech, business, and history.

Very likely on the spectrum.
Nice to meet you all.

[Salem Aboshala]

Hello everyone

[b.long2910]

Hello guys, i am here for researching tech, it will be nice to meet you guys. Btw im a laptop technician.

[ojan]

Hello, my name's Theopius Yosan, usually called Ojan, im from indonesia, i joined this forum to learn electronics especially computers.

[John Graham]

Hi,
I'm new to this forum and stumbled on it when researching bad capacitors that plague us on cheap electronics. I'm not new to repairing electronic boards (as I have to on my old and outdated analog equipment) but any new ideas/methods/etc are always a pleasure to me - I'm not an expert and learning by doing is what I enjoy most.
John Graham

[CHChoo]

Hi everyone,
I here to learn some electronic.

[Elizalde Alfiler]

hello friends. Feel so good to be included here @ Badcaps. Yup electronics is what i'm interested in. and m,ost of my years were spent in this passion profession made it as well as my bread and butter. I also have my own office doing repairs online.... Thank you very much Badcaps... thumbs up to all of you guys.

[motherboard31000]

Salut.
Je suis la pour apprendre la répartition des cartes mères des laptop. Merci

[motherboard31000]

Salut.
Je suis la pour apprendre la répartition des cartes mères des laptop. Merci

[VolatilMem]

I'm interested in electronics, HW and SW with some programming skills.
I wanted to join trhe group to learn more and hopefully be able to help some in the future.
/TnX

[tnbulldog]

Hi all,

Stubbled upon this forum and it looked like there was a lot of useful information.
Trained Electronics Engineer, who spends his time running an automotive test lab, so the only electronics I get to play with are repairs on the test machines.
Mostly I have to deal with corporate bull.
Looking to start doing repairs at home to save my sanity!!

[sandytaco]

Hi! I'm a hobbyist that loves electronics and learning I'm really excited to be part of the forum and to hone in my skills. My motto is "anything can be fixed... you just need to be good enough" and I know we can all help each other!

[gsamson]

Hello,i found old laptop that i,m trying to fix.Hope to learn some basic knowledge here.

[falconxxl]

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amstrad 464, Commodore 64, Amiga 500, Atari STFM,
Amiga 600, Amiga 1200 (probably the best affordable all round home
computer imo)

Well that was my childhood. Needless to say school teachers hadn't a clue
what I was writing about when they asked for essays on home life.

With money I was able to afford my first PC computer. I briefly had
an 8086 which helped in learning DOS but it was mis-sold to us as a much
higher rated PC. Not making the same mistake twice we bought a brand
new system from a premium retailer for £1500 ($2859.45). It was a brand
new on the market Pentium 75Mhz, a whopping 8Mb RAM, with 16bit sound
and a top end Diamond Stealth 2Mb PCI graphics card.

Hooked on the need for high performance to do more things quicker, after
winning a few thousand on the lottery. I self built myself a brand new on
the market Pentium Pro system ($1500 just for the CPU itself). Back then
nearly everyone I spoke to thought I had just a 200Mhz Pentium and hadn't
heard about Pentium Pro in their local stores, it was frustrating explaining
how it was hugely more powerful than their 'home user' systems. People
wouldn't sell me games and software cos they'd say my system wasn't as
powerful as a 233Mhz MMX - minimum spec to run etc grrr.

After that I kind of incrementally upgraded, mainly been with AMD and learnt
the benefit of large heavy copper blocks and giant noisy fans. But more
recently I've been investing in quiet PC components, such as thermally speed
controlled fans and most importantly a quiet hard drive and quiet enclosure,
anyone looking to reduce PC noise I strongly suggest enclosing your drives
in Silentmaxx enclosures, they have mixed reviews, but I find with a modern
low noise drive placed inside they virtually eliminate all HD noise completely.

I'm currently running an Athlon 1800 with a Radeon 9800XT for games, last
few years it was a 3200XP with a GF6800 but it blew itself apart just like
most high end equipment seems to. My home business system is a Dual Core
X2 3800+. My next purchase will most likely be a Quad Core Processor, AMD
or Intel depending on reviews and if the old A1800 survives that long.

My portable system is a WiFi Sempron 2800+ (latest 2006 revision) with ATI
graphics and is kind of the benchmark of quiteness that I hope my desktop
systems will eventually aspire to.

thank you

[falconxxl]

Thank you guys, this is creatives forum