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[eng.umair.a]

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Well my name is Umair Ahmed m 25 and currently studying B.Tch(Electronics) and i run a small business of my own a laptop repair shop.

[Morthyr]

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Hi, everyone pleasure to join this forum.

[mgk1]

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Hi folks! Looking for some help to repair my hanns-g 281d monitor!

[bobbytms]

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Hello and thank you to all the great minds that contributed this this awesome site. My name is Bobby. I'm a new user to this forum but pocess 20 in the IT field. I look forward to being an active contributor in this community.

Best regards,

Bobby

[Vicious-Deeds]

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Hello

[Snood McGuinness]

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I am a physics student in the UK and I love tinkering with things and diy repair. I found this forum because my monitor's bust and I would like to ask for some help in fixing it

[liquidzorch]

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Hello. I am new here. I am looking for some help with some components.

[brenglen]

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Hi just new to tvs, just got my first LG plasma, I have a feeling i'll be visiting a lot more then I expected. Im from detroit, degree in Marketing.

Thanks

[Johnski]

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Hello all, I'm a 26 year trucker, been there twice atleast. I fool with cars, trucks, married and not allowed to touch house that she knows of. Any questions, directions, or whatever, just ask away and if I can help I will.

[gonetropo]

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Hi all, i'm new to the forum so heres my background. i was a tv/vcr tech before getting into the broadcasting industry. since then i've been involved in large scale p.a work as well as a fair stint in the alarm industry. currently i'm working for myself when possible following a pretty major injury.
i seem to get all the weird an wonderful repair jobs like controllers from scissor lifts etc though currently i'm repairing a HK powered subwoofer and i have to say what a piece of junk it is!!
i'm located in christchurch new zealand (or whats left of it after the quakes)

[batmreload]

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Hi. Just came to this forum hoping to get advice on an old/new motherboard

[mehatronic]

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Greetings to all members of the new member of the forum.
I am into electronics and mechatronics for many years.
My priority is servicing household appliances and electronics.
Here having problems, innovations to understand and improve in the short term.
Therefore, I am a member of many forums so that he could ask for help from experienced Members or help their modest knowledge.
I look forward to stay in this forum, because I accidentally bumped into him and saw that deals with some topics that I'm interested.

please do not resent the bad English translator because sometimes poorly translated

so much of me

[DapperDan81]

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Hi altogether,

I´m a programmer sitting in Germany, so not an English native.

I started being interested in computers and hardware since... I don`t remember. My first computer was something with a Zilog Z80 Processor which I got from my dad as he bought his first AT Computer.
That guy also taught me to solder electronics. So I have always been interested in fixing electronics and playing around with computers.

I'm a person that can not simply accept that some electronic device just fails and is than being thrown away. I always try to fix my own stuff and sometimes stuff from other people.

At the moment I try to fix a TV and that´s how I found this forum.

[joyson]

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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..

hello every1

[joyson]

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hello everyone

[joyson]

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hi,
sorry for multiple posting. computer hardware is not my profession i am doing this for my
hobby i am from Nepal. i work on web development company. i want to fix my dead laptop my self i got into here. English is not my native language so sorry for my bad english

[OldGeekTweaker]

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Hi, my name is David and I have an addictive personality.

About me is a world, busy with it's day, as I sit at the PC :busy: and piddle the time away. :welcome:

I'm just a guy who's lived a blessed, interesting life, sometimes fun, sometimes not,
that's just life. I can take no credit for having earned the chance to do any of it or deserved the blessings, opportunities, and benefits of the experiences you'll read about below, and they really only begin to scratch the surface of my good fortune. Now, I'm retired and taking it easy, finally.

I've been around, worked on, or in a field related to electronics since first helping Dad install Executone nurse call & paging systems for hospitals in Phoenix during 1961-62. I was age 7 to 9.

These are the highlights, but not every job or type since 1968.

Foodservice & hospitality as busboy & waiter(1968); Board/component-level bench repair tech on tubed & solid state electronics of radios, TV's, consumer electronics (1971);Telephone company repairman and special orders bench technician (1971-1972); Made, bottled, sold & delivered 100% Pure Fresh juices to local and chain grocery stores in Las Vegas (1972-1974); Managed the Floating Bridge Exxon and the Aurora Ave Exxon stations in Seattle (1973-1974); Welders' helper in Seattle shipyards and Welder/Fitter in scenery shops(1974-1982);

21 years in the entertainment industry as a technician on stages, TV shoots, Motion Picture locations, rock concerts, Cabaret & Off-Broadway show theatres, scenery shops, showroomes, lounges and outdoor venues, I joined the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employes(as originally mispelled in the IA charters creation Way back when), Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of The United States and Canada, AFL/CIO in 1974 as a Stage Electrician & Spotlight Operator; then Stage Carpenter, Prop Man, Flyman & Rigger, 16mm & 35mm Motion Picture Machine Operator, Multi-media Programmer/Operator; Live Audio mixer, FOH and onstage Monitor mixer, Video Display & Videowall Specialist.

In 1975 at the Las Vegas Hilton under the direction of Kinsey Turner, I assisted in the installation of the first state-of-the-art lighting control board in Las Vegas since the Hilton (as the International) opened in 1969. The following year was spent working with Jerry Swaney, Head Electrician & board operator of the Aladdin Hotel's Baghdad Theatre. Jerry & I worked 6 nights a week doing shows, and 7 days a week with technicians from Century Strand Lighting to install the first ROM-based, re-writable RAM, programmable lighting control board in Las Vegas. How cool do you think that was, huh? Way,dude!

Years later at the Desert Inn in 1989, I was tasked to design & install an Audio/Video system for the Lounge; spec'd, then oversaw the background music & paging system overhaul; revamped the 5 FM radio repeaters onsite; we negotiated new contracts with Motorola for more than 650 radios, 400 LCD display beepers, and close to 200 Motorola "Brick" cellphones, batteries, chargers, etc.; then assisted with upgrading the showroom Audio reinforcement systems. I left the D.I to join Encore Production in late 1989.

At Encore Productions in 1992, in addition to the responsibilities of managing our in-house delivery & setup crews; oversee the warehousing, inventorying, maintenance and repair of all our systems and equipment; expansion, maintenance and administration of our PC network, to provide file and printer sharing, and end-user support to a growing cadre of sales, technical and support staff, and teach them how to use, or not use the network and resources; produce quotes for various systems for rent by our clients; keep tabs on rentals and/or crews at remote convention venues from New York City to Anaheim & Orlando to San Jose, ALL this, whether I was in Las Vegas, or AT one of the jobs out of town myself, while I tried to keep up with technology, and personally handle all VideoWall Systems design, install, setup & programming and on-site operating, and designed several systems for permanent installs; a cool example was the dual-wall system, with real-time video camera feeds operated by the performers onstage, of the Lounge at the Stardust.

Oh Darn! I forgot to mention in the midst of all this excitement, I married my 2nd wife :flowers: , June 7th, 1987, then was blessed with the arrival of "The Perfect Child" :love4u: April 7th, 1988. Really, we tried living like a normal family. Seriously, you have to be normal in the first place.

In addition to the Stagehand work, until Encore I also worked with my Dad who owned and operated Garland Construction, as a licensed General Contractor, and Head Soundman for the Tropicana Hotel, where he retired in 2003 after 25 years in the same position, 30 years as a Stagehand. That he could keep that position 25 years, is amazing. Nobody lasts that long as a soundman, anywhere. He's the only man I know of besides David Rogers of Caesars Palace to hold a Head Audio position for that length of time.

So, thanks to Garland Construction, between (1968-2009) I also did residential & commercial construction.

In the late 80's, computers became my hobby, but work didn't allow the time I wished to spend experimenting with and learning about them. Then in 1994, I decided 21 years was long enough to work backstage and began thinking about a new career. One day it dawned on me, I'd been training for the perfect job more than 8 or 9 years. Information Technology. Computers!

In 1995, I was hired as a Systems Tech for the Clark County Government Center, in Las Vegas, Nevada. For three years, in addition to working and raising "The Perfect Child" (she really was and still is), I studied for, tested as, then became a certified Novell NetWare 4.x Admin and certified Novell GroupWise 4.x/5.x admin.

September 21st, 1998 our family left Las Vegas for greener pastures and change of pace in Missouri.

For the first year, I was so busy creating two homesteads on 27 acres we bought with Dad, I didn't have a job or business, other than the occasional garden to till, pasture to bushhog, or tree to fell and cut for firewood. I entered an intense 4-week, 220-hour Transport Training course at Crowder College, located on the grounds of the former Camp Crowder Army Base, Neosho, Missouri, Sept of 1999. I graduated, tied for top-of-the-class, passed the CDL exam and became an Over-the-Road truck driver. I won't drag this out much more, but suffice it to say, trucking ain't nothing like renting slide projectors, and darned sure ain't for sissies.

Owned & Operated an 18-wheeler hauling specialized freight in the US & Canada (2000-2009)

When the economy tanked in late 2008, myself and several hundred thousand, small business operators found ourselves struggling to stay in business, while the potential for economic recovery was rapidly disappearing. I closed the business April 1st, 2009 and began to earnestly look for a job. 6 months later, I found a position as an Inbound Call-Center, Customer Service Representative, or Credit Card Advisor, for Chase Bank credit cards (2009-2012).

When I left there in 2012, I retired.

Since leaving Nevada, I've tried to keep up with technology, but I find myself hard pressed to do today, what my job then, as the Asst. Technical Director of Encore Productions required between 1990 & 1994.

I literally walked a tightrope on the bleeding edge of the expansion of the internet, cellular communications, video graphics displays, and peripheral hardware, squeezing every source for news, researching anything related exhaustively. It was a harried and exciting time, but could have been more fun, if better planning were involved and flying by the seat of your pants was kept to a minimum. It might have been much less stressful, maybe not. For a Type-A like me, knowing we had actually had a plan, and tried to follow it, would make it easier to accept the chaos. Knowing all along we never had a plan at all, while expecting catastrophe at any moment, drove me to distraction at times. The stress and pressure to excel and perform above all the rest, 100% of the time, is what really drove me away from the business. It wasn't not liking what I did. I loved it! and had a position that was the envy of many guys I'd worked with for years.

Phil C. & Larry L. were the best men I ever worked for, or anyone else could want to. Besides, name a place where; you can be yourself, act & dress casual, do something you really enjoy, and have the Tech. Dir., your immediate chain of command, basically give you a blank check and send you shopping for more than two years to buy the latest, greatest, fastest, best high-tech Audio & Video gear? 1992 & 1993 I purchased over $5 million dollars in inventory alone, not to mention a delivery van, PC's and a lot of A/V equipment bought simply to sell, not to inventory.

In case you weren't sure, Yes, no doubt, It's way more fun to spend THEIRS than ours.

I loved the work I did, I just didn't like doing it under such intense pressure ALL the time. It was just too demanding doing it like we did. Our company motto was an understatement of the way we actually functioned.

"Doing it the way it SHOULD be done."

It meant, above all the competition, we did it better, looked better, sounded better, at a better price than anyone else, making certain it looked easy to do. Amazingly, we did. Another saying Stagehands have is;

"if it was easy......anybody could do it." And anybody would be, too. Then we just might be out of work.

Here I go, exiting Staaaaaaage Left!

[Xga]

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Hi Everyone,

I've come here to learn about how and when to replace bad caps and generally fix anything electronic.

Cheers!

[rleonard]

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I am a semi retired mechanical engineer/home shop machinist and fabricator. Also FFL/SOT and a pilot. I rebuild a lot of equipment and try to keep things in repair. Often that is a loosing battle. I found this site when searching for repair help on a Triplist triple power supply. One display is out. I also have a DC drive with an un-identifiable component that I hope someone can help.

Bob

[Lonfyre]

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Greetings everyone!

I'm kind of a "family tech" (if something breaks, my name is usually the first thing yelled out) and have been doing this since I was still in middle school. I'm always looking to expand my skill set, since much of what I work with to begin with was salvaged from dead computers, trash cans, etc.