New Members - please post your introductions here

[Jonathan Nguyen]

Hey, I'm incredibly new to electronics repair as a whole and found this forum as a solace of schematics. I'm hoping to learn with you all!

[nendo]

Hi Everyone. I just wanted to thank all of you that contribute to this comunity to flourish. I will try to do my part by learning and contributing as well when I am able to.
Big hug.

[repayphalange]

Hi everyone !

I'm quite new, and not working in the IT field, but am passionate on this, and got me starting a bit with electronics as well. I'm here to learn a bit more, and start stuff I didn't know I could be able to do !

Thanks for this forum by the way !

[Jerry Waters]

Hi I'm Diesel. I got a Dell laptop 7410. And I can't get into because of admin password. System 3HKKGB3-8FC8. Can someone please help me

[ma_3_taa]

I am always looking to learn new things. I work hard and am very interested in gaming, repairing electronics and computers.

[xAndreSDM]

Hi, guys, i'm here to get help to unbrick my BIOS of Nitro 5 AN515-57. I made a mess in advanced BIOS and now need to flash again.

[lygiathanh]

chào cac thanh vien, hi vong giup do dc nhieu nguoi

[Salim D]

Hi!

I'm 33yd old with cs degree working u530 and t60 and t480 and x1 carbon 5th gen.
I have an x1 extreme gen 1 i thought died due to motherboard overheating in my backpack 1 year ago but it powered on when I removed the internal and cmos battery then I tried to update (ik) through lenovo system update and it froze at 62% possibly trying to update the bios to current 2024 version from 2022 version bios.
Now it's back to the prior behavior which was esc caps lock f1 f4 lights flash on which indicates it should be retraining the ram. Only one of my ram slots seems to be able to boot from (this is an old issue). Anyways it never finishes this process now, but it was able to boot prior to freezing during update. I believe it was a power issue during updating bios

At this point I am thinking to replace internal battery cmos battery ram and then use some tool to uncorrupt the bios, which is a fairly new process for me

[Thi N]

Hi guys, i decided to join badcaps because i repair from time to time laptops and I hope that I can learn here alot

[Zen3012]

Hi,
My name is Dan and i am new to electronics.
I am trying to flash a bios on a machine with corrupted bios

[TransistorBJT]

Hello everyone, I'm exited to join this forum I'm looking forward to learn about Bios and repair my laptop :3

[alextech]

Hello my name is Alejandro, i have done very little hardware repair stuff, i have YouTube channel about some hardware repair stuff but know very little. I am here to expand my knowledge on hardware

[mikey512k]

Hello everyone, I am a BSEET working to learn more about board repair and firmware.

[babilouu92]

Hi all,

Happy to join this forum, I’m a 38 years old, an electronics amateur, and a professional in network and security ^^

[btayar]

Hi, I´m Bruno, from Brazil. Computer Engineer. 44 years old, working with computer since 1989. I have a collection of old computer, such as 486, first pentiuns and newer. I found this forum looking for information about de caps of an abit kx7-333 I bought this month, new with box, forgot in some old stock. It came working unstable because of some bulging caps. Tks for the information I found here I was able to recap it and it´s fully working, flawless.
Hope I can help and learn with everybody here. Running with a thunderbird 1333MHz Athlon and a Geforce 2 TI 64MB.
Tks!

[andmanarfer]

Hello, I'm from the Dominican RTepublic and I've been tinkering with computer (mainly software tweaks, theming and overclocking here and there back in the Athlon XP days, sadly not so good with hardware modding, but willing to learn ) I just found this forum and it looks like a nice place to be, I'll make sure to visit often. Nice to meet you all!!

[trad0v]

Hello, from Lebanon living in Germany, electronics and repair geek, still learning a lot, big thanks to this site and to you all <3 !

[pigmeaki]

Greeting from Greece! I have always turned to badcaps for reliable advice on my learning journey and now I am looking forward get more actively involved with the community!

[tauheed]

Hey everyone!

I'm Tauheed , Since we're all just people trying to figure things out in this crazy world, I like to think of us as brothers and sisters in arms—learning, sharing, and growing together. So, in that spirit, I'm your brother here, ready to learn from you and hopefully share a little bit of what I know along the way.,
and I'm thrilled to join the BADCAPS Electronic Repair Forum —mainly because I'm hoping to learn how to fix things that aren't supposed to be broken… and break things that weren't broken yet (just kidding, I'll try not to do that). 😅

My journey into electronics started with a healthy curiosity about how things work, which has now evolved into a full-blown mission to get my hands dirty with practical repairs. I'm diving into motherboard repair, which I'm sure will involve a fair share of trial and error—hopefully more of the "error" part than "trial," but we'll see how it goes. 🤞

I've joined this forum to tap into the vast pool of wisdom and schematics available here. I know I've got a lot to learn from the pros, and I'm really excited to get into the nitty-gritty of troubleshooting, especially with components like capacitors that like to act up when we least expect them. If anyone has any tips for avoiding the occasional “oops, that wasn't supposed to happen” moment, I'm all ears.

Looking forward to being part of the community, learning from all of you, and maybe, just maybe, saving some motherboards along the way!

After all, we're all just humans here—so consider me your brother in this journey of learning and repair!
Thanks for the warm welcome!

- Tauheed

[surazbashyal]

Hi Everyone ! I am Suraj Bashyal from Nepal currently working as a laptop chip level technician at my own shop Microchip Expert.
I do all kinds of stuffs such as I/O programming, CPU replacement, and all bga related works.
This forum has helped me inn many ways.