New Members - please post your introductions here

[ElMaDragon]

Hi everyone, I'm a hobbyist who enjoys working with hardware, and recently I've started repairing laptops and other PCs. I'm still a beginner when it comes to PC repairs, so l'm here to learn from all of you. Looking forward to being part of this community!

[baatrk]

My name is Bálint Török, I’m an IT specialist from Hungary.

Currently I’m trying to revive my ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-E Gaming motherboard, which unfortunately got bricked due to a corrupted BIOS.

[johtajaorava]

Hi. Im new here. Im trying to learn bios programming.

[sorehammer]

Hi I'm new and from the UK and enjoy tinkering with electronics.

[JJ8409]

Hello,

I’m an IT technician and I trained in electronic microsoldering. However, despite receiving excellent training in microsoldering, there was no module dedicated to electronic diagnostics, which is essential before replacing microcomponents.
I’m therefore self-training using everything I can find on the internet.

[Omar Villalba]

Hello, my name is Omar Villalba, I'm from Paraguay, and I specialize in electronic equipment repair. I've always had a strong interest in technology and am passionate about computers. Recently, I’ve started exploring the field of laptop repair, which I find both fascinating and challenging.

While searching for information and ways to keep learning, several colleagues recommended this forum to me, so I decided to join.
I hope to learn, share knowledge, and also contribute with my experience wherever I can.

It’s a pleasure to be here and to be part of this community.

[Bombo Bill]

Hi All

New Member Bombo Bill here...

I am involved in aviation servicing, instruments and electronics repair and I'm looking to improve my practical knowledge of appliance,
automotive and computer electronic design, servicing and troubleshooting from information on line and importantly hopefully from
friendly people here with real world knowledge. I will try not to ask silly questions and will always appreciate help given.

Thanks in advance, Bill

[alaa12345]

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..

thank you

[Asix51]

Hi, This is Chua from Malaysia.

[Transformator PC]

Hello everyone, Lenovo idea pad 3 15ALC6 laptop with no iso signs, the power button is missing and Esc, capslock and numluck are lit, I need a BIOS for flashing via flash

[applepc]

Hello, my is IT-TECH PRO and for the past few years I've been working with computer repairs.

[Malva]

Hi, this is Malva from Italy

[juhoeskeli]

Hi,

New here and I hope to learn some graphics card & motherboard servicing skills. My hobby is overclocking legacy computer hardware, and many times this stuff is not in the best repair.

[1kboakye]

I’m in need of some help

[Mazzy909]

Hi all, thank you for this great resource.
Currently hunting for a laptop board schematic to find a capacitor value (which broke while I was removing it). :/