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[newtvbox]

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I found your site through a google search. I'm an electronics technician and I'm currently trying to work with maintenance on PC video cards. I graduated in electronics in 1997 but worked with computers until I retired due to disability due to tendinitis. Today I work with electronics whenever I can...

[Elektronik3214]

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Hello

[loic2907]

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Hi,
I am Loic and I am a french repair laptop service since 2020 !
See you soon

[CarlBrizzle]

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Hi everyone, Carl here, from Bristol, UK. Happened on this forum via what I assume is a fairly common route: Frustrated by Macbook Pro failures, fancy myself handy with a soldering iron but don't know where to go for info, found Louis Rossmann on YouTube and wound up here.

I've been fiddling with computers since about 1980 or a bit before, my first computer was a Commodore PET and I was inside that with a soldering iron in fairly short order. Since then I've mostly focused on software, I've worked as VAX/VMS and assorted Unix sysadmin, and embedded software and some specialist hardware design, current day job involves embedded realtime operating systems. I'm not a computer repair guy, and only partialy equipped for board level repair on modern machines but am fed up with macbooks dying because of a cheap component failure and Apple saying it's a write-off, buy a new one. Came here looking for schematics to keep some "ancient" (in Apple terms) perfectly good machines running. Deliberate obsolescence and excessive e-waste are not exactly part of the solution when it comes to adverse ecological impact from this stuff, and in any case, I just find it satisfying to fix things.

Thanks for reading my intro!

Cheers,

- Carl

[jacoras]

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Hi !!!
I'm from Poland, I've been digging into electronics for a very long time, repairing and designing various modules. I also like old computers like Atari 800 and P200mmx :-) Have a nice day

[martinbrandin]

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Hi everyone, Martin from Sweden. Service engineer since mid 80's. Was looking for problem solution for a Mitsu servo. Will try to use Per Hanssons info.
New to Forums so I hope I did this right. :-)

[EmilioZ]

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I am, Emilio,
I am an enthusiast of electronics. I'm here to learn more.
Greetings to all forum participants from Italy.

[computersusi13]

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Hallo Zusammen,
mein Name ist Susanne. Leider ist mein Englisch sehr schlecht. Muss Beiträge öfter lesen um sie zu verstehen. Alles was ich über PC, Spielekonsolen, Waschmaschinen, Trockner und einiges mehr, habe ich mir selber beigebracht. Jede Reparatur die erfolgreich gewesen ist, hat mir gr0ße Freunde bereitet. Ich hoffe hier im Forum noch viel zu lernen. Vielen Dank an die vielen Helferlein hier im Forum. Ich habe schon viele interessante Beträge gelesen.

[johnson5000]

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Hello everyone

[bds3151]

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Hi- first post been in electronics/computing since the late 60's. Worked on the first intelligent display terminal - LSI 7700 and ADM1. Installed the Australian social security system.

[jeff260z]

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Hello all, great forum here.

[ubali]

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Hi there my name is AUWAL MUHAMMAD UBALI And I'm From Nigeria, My course of study is Computer Engineering. Nice to meet you All

[mattj7]

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Hello all! I am a thinkpad enthusiast, here to try to use Knucklegrumble's automatic Supervisor Passwords (bios password) from a used Thinkpad I bought.

I have done some component level repairs, though I've subcontracted the microsoldering. For example, I got a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 5 from a reddit post for VERY little because the thunderbolt EEPROM was dead, so it wouldn't charge, but otherwise worked. I got a replacement chip and paid my talented friend to swap it for me. Then I used a CH431A USB programmer and the Linux program Flashrom to flash the new EEPROM chip and viola, it's been working great since.

[meenen01]

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fantsastic that this forum exists - there is no better one for me

[Voks]

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Hi,all. Excellent forum. Greetings from Colombia

[the_basilisk]

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I started with battery powered 1 tube radios on medium wave - using 1S4 tubes etc, and have carried on from there. I still repair various equipment that uses vacuum tubes.

[jarx12]

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Forums, i used to read them a lot when i was younger, they are the very reason i have developed a hobby to repairing things and non real time talk sans email.

Greeting from Venezuela, hope we all can do good things for everybody

[logobg]

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Thank you for all the information on the forum!! I"m trying to repair my BIOS and I'm finding tons of information here.. Keep the good work and thank you again!

[gera4ko]

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Hi,
My name is Angel. Long time ago I'm a member of badcaps, but I never had a need to post. Now I have broken laptop and I need a help. Can you please activate my account to be able to post.
Kind Regards from Norway!

[jimmybowles]

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Thanks for accepting me Jim Bowles MississaugaOntario Canada