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hi to every body!
tx for acept me in this family, i am a electronic technician with 20 year of experience, but every day i learn more lesson! tx again!
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Hi all
My name is Socratis "Sox" from South Africa
I have resumed my electronic career after 35 years of being in the retail trade
As a technician the basics are the same but things have changed over the years and I decided to join your forum as I am watching Richard Learn electronic repair on you tube and he only has good things to say about this forum
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Hi all! I keep coming back to tech every decade or so, as my other ventures and initiatives complete or wind down. I started in tech in the 1970s, installing cable TV, maintaining broadcast/video gear, and lusting after the new computers in Popular Science and Byte Magazine. (What a great mag that was). I finally acquired my own in '85. It was a PCjr. Lame, but I could afford it. My infatuation with computers continued though an undergraduate degree in international relations, and I even tossed my hat into the import/export trade. Boom!
While the smoke was clearing from that, I was spending a lot of my time helping friends figure out which computer they should buy. It didn't take too long before I started to selling them myself. First in stores, then on my own. I had a middling venture running in Vancouver, BC, with a few friends, and my old vocation in cabling led me into enterprise networking. (Netware anyone?)
From there, I migrated into groupware and found job offers in the USA too good to refuse. I like to tell people that I met my wife when we were both working at a Burger King, then I did some time in Folsom.
Actually, it was the MIS department of Burger King HQ in Miami, FL, where I was lead in an emerging tech lab ( Enterprise Fax! What a joke. ) and a Lotus Notes migration. Then it was stint filling vacancies at Intel's MIS facility in Folsom, Ca (about five miles from the prison). I was the Lotus Notes product specialist, then I sat in the Email Gateway Manager seat for a month. So intense. Stupidest career move I ever made was to turn down a permanent job offer with Intel's Level 3 support crew. No doubt the best work environment I have ever experienced.
A miscommunication with my direct report at Intel led to all of my subsequent job references going nowhere. An optimistic/serendipitous investment in real estate back in Canada cushioned my path through the dot-com bust and 9/11 fiasco. I became a real estate agent, but I got better. I mucked about in home automation for about a decade, then followed my heart and bought a used book and record store on Saltspring Island. While there, I bought a container full of old and broken audio equipment for $100. I managed to fix an average of one every month or so. (Fuses, tubes, shorts, dust, etc).
Now my wife and I have a little hobby farm in Nova Scotia, and from shear boredom I joined the local Lions Club. I'm one of the younger members....
Now, I've got a modest collection of dysfunctional/broken PCs and other electronic gear. It is calling to me...
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Hi all,
I've been browsing the BADCAPS forum for a while but have now decided to jump onboard! I'm and electrical engineer and have been "messing" with tech stuff for longer than I can remember, although these days time constraints often tie my hands I still enjoy "tinkering with tech!" when I can.
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Hello
Moata from Libyan
Mechanical engineering msc
Post graduate student in engineering project management
😁 Working in laptops repair since almost 20 years
Thank
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Hello everyone, I'm from Kazakhstan, I'm 25 years old. I work for a computer repair and maintenance company. before that he worked in the service center of TVs and cell phones. in the army he was a signalman. Now I'm trying to develop my skills in the field of computer technology. The soldering iron is like an extension of my hand. very nice to be one of the members of Badcaps
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Hi Guys
I am Sander and i am 39 years and living by myself in the Netherlands.
I am having alot af experience in other stuff within the Computer World.
But feeling a bit Noobish here without the experience in this field.
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Greetings from Jeffersonville, IN USA
Junior wet-behind-the-ears network engineer here with a little bit of PCB-level repair experience. Forum refugee also from the now-defunct eLab.ph (Philippine Electronics Repair forum), looking for new pastures.
It has been almost 10-13 years since I signed into badcaps.com. I know I have another account here, but it has been lost to the ravages of time and multiple computer migrations. Maybe I'll find it again one day.
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Hello guys...
My name is Alan, 33 yo, infosec lover that fxxxed it up setting a very complex password to a Latitude 5400 (And can't remember it...), so after reading some faqs I'll be asking for help.
please help friends thinkpad T470 board CT470 series NM-A931 error post "bottom cover tamper detection error"
I've already
flashed the bios clean me and updated from the Lenovo site, then removed the switch and immediately jumped the S3 from pins 1 to 4, 2 to 3 but the problem remained the same, thank you
please help friends, I have 3 T490 units with the same case, the USB type C is completely dead, showing 20v 0 amp, loss of voltage VINT20_IN resistance to ground is fine, thank you
I think the problem is that I lost the voltage at PQ0008 pon 1 -PWRSHUTDOWN which should have been high which was picked up by R9512 VCC3SW, thank you very much for your help
Please help friends, thinkpad t480 nm-b501 is dead, help me fix it, thank you
usb meter 20v 0.00 amp, after I took the VSYS measurement the drop was only `9.2v which should have been 10.2v I measured from a normal matherboard machine, the VSYS path resistance to ground diode mode is 1900 thank you
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