New Members - please post your introductions here

[555inkmoose]

Hello! I'm hoping to keep turn-of-last-century AV alive and not toss motherboards that have that one tiny cap that blew magic smoke into the room.

[curiousFixit]

Hi all,

I work in secondhand electronics, where we try to repair and reuse donated electronics.
Whatever comes in ☺
Laptops are a current focus.

[James Rombo]

Hi everyone not going to lie im here for a specific schematic but it seems like an interesting forum!

[Jtwilson3]

Hello my name is Josh. Very very new to attempting to work on my own computers. Living the scrub life of pc gaming. Specs:

1st

Gigabyte b550m k ($60)

Ryzen 5 5600 ($85)

GeForce gtx 1070 to 8gb ($0)

Enermax Case ($0)

Gskill Trident Z 16gb ($30)

EVGA 650w Power Supply ($0)

Cooler Master hyper 212 evo v3 ($20)

Windows 10




2nd

Gigabyte b450m d3sh v2

Ryzen 3 3100

Asus 1070

Timetec 16gb

Timetec 512gb

Peerless assassin 120 mini

Cooler master masterbox q300l

[Willians Herrera]

hola !

[Tomomoto]

Hi, I'm based in the sunny Napier, New Zealand. I do hdmi repairs, switch mods, drift fixing,general repairs, av/svideo/rgb mods for game consoles and console cleaning.

[Sir SOMC]

My Name is not important and i don't do anything if i don't have to. If i find out who i am, i'll tell ya, maybe, perhaps not, i don't know, stop forcing me, aaaa this pressure, ...

[jc513607]

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

[ElRippo]

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hi, cool forum. Hope to find something interesting here.
Need help with my locked bios - look at my post in bios request

[jackd1001]

Hello i work at a computer repair shop and im here for one specific schematic

[JSBJSB]

Gooood day everyone,

I had already used this website to look for info and now I am glad I can help as well.
I love to repair things and make profit out of it

See you

[Loki_Fido]

Hi folks,

Call me Fido. I'm new and when it comes to BIOS subject, I'm mildly noob..

I hope everyone is doing great.

Is this site great? No fee, no ads, no pain.
Just folks helping each other out, out of their goodness.

I hope this site stays this way.

[PFordham]

Hi,
I'm new to this forum. I have always had a fascination with electrical goods.
From the age of 8, I loved the Atari 2600, and now it is a relic and has been sitting in the attic for god knows how long, then that finally came out and this is where I got my interests in electronic repairs.
So, I started to get my hands dirty. I got the Atari out of the bag and started to restore it back to its former glory.
Replacing the Caps, ressoldering the dry solder joints. This became a beauty, and a great way to bring back my childhood memoeries.
Since that was my first project, and yes I kept it and still play on it. I have got involved into laptops, PC's and other electronics.
Currently, I'm working on a Asus Chromebook with a USB-C charger port that has missing traces, so now I'm going to micro repairs. Well trying!! lol. My eyes are not as good as they used to be.

Since joining, I have read a few posts and I love the community feel of this forum.

[avrorafrix]

Hey everyone I'm Z. i've got training in communications mostly. to be honest, i'm still a young guy. i usually feel like i know more than i can actually apply, and it drives me crazy. i'm up for some training in new fields and i'm looking for some new sources of information everywhere i can get it. I maybe late in threads as i'm coming into new projects and learning things as i go. Its hard to ask the questions you haven't found as it were. please excuse the grammar, numbers are my strong suite... ...

[Steeven “Geek 5.0” 5.0]

Hi everyone, Steeven, a little French guy from the east of France I'm an electronics enthusiast and I like to share with you

[Guste]

Hello everyone, I'm new here and I'm from good old Bavaria, Germany.
I stumbled upon this forum because I bought an IR6500 BGA rework station. Then I started looking for more information about this station and ended up here. I've already found some good posts that will help me.

Greetings from Guste

[idlle]

Hi everyone im from romania, and i ended up here trying to unlock a lenovo bios .
what id did accomplished.
cheers to the person or persons behind the LENOVO BIOS AUTO-PATCHER for Supervisor Password

[the.techie.nerd]

Hello from TheTechieNerd!

I'm from Chandigarh, INDIA, and I've been in the tech world for over a decade. I work as a Principal Software Engineer and Project Manager by profession.

I recently discovered this amazing forum and knowledge wiki while searching for information about my MacBook—and I absolutely love this community! I'm here to both learn and share my expertise.

Feel free to reach out if you need any specific info. Looking forward to connecting with you all!

Thanks!

[andresepluiz77]

OLÁ A TODOS VAMOS PRA CIMA PALMEIRAS

[atmelmicro]

Hey everyone, I am David from Czechia. I have a interest in ThinkPads and Macbooks. I study CS (usually work with embedded devices). Am excited to join this community

See you soon!