New Members - please post your introductions here

[sidclaynt]

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, I live in Brazil and work repairing electronics for living .... LoL tysm

[King_Tech]

Hi,
thanks for having me, I do phone, pc, console repairing at home in my spare time.

[Rodrigo Mendes]

Hello, BADCAPS surfers,

I have a passion for any kind of machine. When they work, 🤩 when they stop working, 🤔I try hard to fix them. Tham I love to fix!

Of course, I have some education and experience, too.

My work is on Renewables.

Nice Forum you have here

And I'm Portuguese

Thank's

[Kote_Maxaradze88]

Hello from hero city Kharkiv, Ukraine!

[Jackal28]

Hey guys, I own my own company as a "builder". I find the word engineer limiting and "hacker" leaves a bad taste although that's what most of us are. People don't understand what that means. It's not just maliciously change computer code or dropping virus. It's simply changing something to get a different "off label" usage out of it. Anyways, I hope that helps you explain who I am.

[zanibiasa]

Hi im Zani. Just learning to troubleshooting board.

[Jessica Ameyali Silva]

Hola buenas noches me presento en este foro me uni porque vi que tienen muchos conocimientos y quiero aprender

[J M-G]

Hello , i'm Jaya
French
16 years old , study on the cybersecurity .
electronic iis my passio

[Internet_Things_guy]

Hi Everyone

[edysson]

Hi guys, here Edoardo from Italy
Greetings

[Jamram109]

Hello everyone! Thanks for allowing me to join your community! I've always had a passion for electronics, which drove my career up until about 12yrs ago when I made an industry change to big oil. But I miss my bench and notebook, so I kept busy tinkering and repairing stuff. I'm slowly gathering my tools and building what I need to safely continue to play on the bench, mainly audio related, SMPS, and the occasional microcontroller projects. I look forward to meeting some of you at a local electronics swap meet (W6TRW is a local spot) or just chatting online!😁

Regards,

Jaime

[BerBoc]

Hello,

I'm a photographer from Hungary and I just want to fix my laptop so I can work with it again :-) I have always been interested in electronic things after my father. He is an electronics engineer.
Have a nice day!

[Inglesra]

Hi, My name is Richard. I'm shortly to be 70 years old. I've been interested in electronics and computers since I started my apprenticeship for BT in 1972. I like to try to repair old computers and build my own computer with varying degrees of success. I'm only an interested amateur though with no formal training so access to a forum like this will give me loads of information to continue my learning curve.

[alibarfi]

Hello all,
My name Jack and I live in Canada
I join this forum to expand my knowledge in electronics and have more friends around the world.
Look forward to being a part of the community
Thanks.

[hope2fix]

Hi, just a newbie looking to learn how to fix appliances when they stop working Like my freezer, and this macbook air I got for cheap because it doesn't turn on.
All the best to you!

[rayan store]

hi my name is Rayan . i live in Helsinki . im student and im designing board so nice to meet you all

[dellboy99]

Hello everyone im from Ireland & have been fixing pc/laptop etc for many many years..The forum looks fantastic & packed with very useful topics looking foward to expolring..Many thanks .Best regards to all.

[holdmeagain]

Hello
I live in South Korea
I am a gamer who likes computer parts
I want cheap computer parts, so I need to repair broken parts
This place has a lot of helpful information for me
Thank you to everyone who shares information for others

[Mugi]

Hello Alll,
My name Mugi and I live in Uk
I join this forum to expand my knowledge in electronics and have more friends around the world.
Look forward to being a part of the community and share knowledgebase
Thank you very much for all

[barend1]

HI my name is BJH i am trying to repair my samsung NP300 Bios .I am from South Arica