New Members - please post your introductions here

[mimfixthings]

Hi everyone, I'm MiM👋

I recently joined this forum after coming across a few really helpful threads while searching for answers about a dead laptop board. I’ve been fixing electronics for a while now — mostly out of necessity at first, but now it's definitely a passion (or maybe an obsession 😅).

A little about me… I’ve always been curious about how things work, especially when they don’t. I started small — broken toys, burnt power adapters, and eventually worked my way up to phones, monitors, and motherboards. These days, I'm deep into board-level repair: tracing faults, replacing tiny SMD components, and trying to understand the logic of circuits that refuse to cooperate.

I’m not an electrical engineer by degree, but I’m learning constantly — through hands-on work, classes, YouTube, forums like this, and of course, trial and error (lots of error...).

I joined this place to share what I’ve learned and learn what I haven’t. I’m hoping to contribute where I can, especially with schematic tracing, power rail issues, and component ID. But I’m also here to get better — particularly at advanced diagnostics, PMIC repair, BIOS stuff, and maybe reverse engineering a bit.

I prefer working quietly in the background, but now and then I’ll pop up with a fix, a question, or a tool recommendation.

Anyway, just happy to be here — this place already feels like the right kind of rabbit hole.
Looking forward to learning with all of you!

Cheers,
MiM FiX

[Khan G Yousafzai]

my name is Khan G.i m technician.my sir name is Zeeshan.who teach me how to repair laptop.he is very Intelligent sir.

[Benzohev]

Good day.
The first time I encountered personal computers was in 1987 (IBM 286, 386) …
Actually, I am a database administrator (system administrator), but due to recent events in the country, I am forced to do minor repairs of laptops (I am a beginner). I hope to learn a lot from you, I hope that you are all highly qualified specialists, and most importantly, kind and responsive people - ready to help a beginner….

[veridiux]

Joining the crew. My name is Justin. I’ve been into computers and technology for as long as I can remember. When I was 11, I built my first computer—a 500MHz AMD K6-2—and that experience kicked off a lifelong fascination with how things work under the hood.

By the time I was 14, I was deep into LAN gaming, spending weekends playing classics like Quake II and Unreal Tournament with friends. Those early days of building PCs, tweaking settings for better performance, and getting into online communities really shaped the way I think about technology and problem-solving today.

[TazLogic]

Hello Here, I'm Cristian and I'm an Electronic Engineer since ... 25 years. However I went to the darkside quite after the University and worked as Software Engineer instead. That's life. I kept an amateur interest in electronics and like to repair my things by myself. Sometimes modify them and so on.

[theonezaire]

hello

[andeson]

ola a todos
estou em busca de foruns em que eu possa conversar com técnicos como eu, para discussão e solução de problema em componentes de pcs, e compartilhamento de boardview,
obrigado

[Jenn12797]

Hello all!
This is my first post just about anywhere. I normally don’t post or join places like this While I do have a facebook page, I haven’t been on that for many a year.
I have lived in northern Virginia for almost twenty years but still consider myself a Jersey girl.
Anyway I have recently started to reawaken my interest in electronics and want to start doing some repairs. I’ve gotten a couple of iPads and a MacBook to start practicing on, but during my search for information, my personal MacBook Air first went into folder/question mark and then totally died. I want to repair that first now but am having trouble finding the information I need.
in looking for board views of the Air, I have been having trouble finding the right one and came across this sight in that search.
I hope being here will help ease my journey to success in first fixing my Air and then continuing to fix others.
Thanks to all in advance for the help!
Jenn12797

[junaidacr]

hi, I'm Junaid, I joined here to further improve my knowledge in making computers and cellphones, I hope you can guide me, thank you very much

[Fill0r]

Hi everyone,

I've always had a strong interest in electronics, especially in repairing and reviving older hardware. I recently came across Badcaps while searching for solutions to a monitor issue, and I was really impressed by the depth of knowledge and helpfulness in the community.

I'm hoping to learn more about capacitor-related problems, power supply repairs, and maybe contribute a bit myself as I gain more experience. I mostly tinker with PCs, displays, and consumer electronics in my free time.

Looking forward to being a part of the community!

Best regards,

[Tyquawn1d]

I’m new to the repair scene,I believed that everyone should have the right to repair their own devices. I’m currently in college studying IT, Looking forward to picking up new skills hopefully

[Arnold555]

Hello friends, I am from the UAE and I work in repairing LCD TVs. I also work in bonding machines and in repairing panels, I also work in changing the Kof.

[xSulfurox]

Holi

[xSulfurox]

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..

Queseyo

[PCB Bittech]

Hello, my name is John, age 46,
I run a workshop where I specialize in repairing and building PCs, as well as fixing various electronics. My background includes a lot of experience with repairing trace damage on PCB boards and did a lot of modding and JTAGging back in the day I was part of the team Executor for Xbox modifications J2G "Shhh" lol These days, I focus on repairing laptops and desktops and whatever else that crosses my path

[obewan.starwar]

Hey, you can call me Obewan. I joined this forum to share information relative to hard to find Schematics & Board Views for a variety of PC's, laptop's, printers & cell phones. Currently I'm looking for a Schematic and Board View for a ASUS X415EA/X515EA laptop computer. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank-you.

[BranoB]

Hi. Just another laptop repair tech here. Great forum, thank you all for the shared knowledge. ...hoping to contribute one day

[Capitão]

Olá!
Sou o Capitão (meu sobrenome). Sou brasileiro, do estado do Rio de Janeiro.
Minha experiência no segmento de manutenções é mínima. Depois que me aposentei, procurei por algo que preenchesse meu tempo e me desse alguma remuneração. Primeiro montei uma pequena marcenaria hobby, mas por problemas de espaço mudei o meu foco para a área de informática.
Estou aprendendo e me dedicando a obter mais e mais conhecimentos sobre o assunto, pricipalmente no que diz respeito a manutenção de placas, sejam elas placas-mãe ou de vídeo. Espero contar com o apoio dos integrantes deste canal.
Saudações!

[deleted]

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..

Well, I'l follow the leader lol. I'm a student of the master. I had some computer experience back in '86. It was all DOS. Not to long ago, I thought it was something just to do minor things like reformat and replacing drives. I'm learning hardware mainly. Though I am dabbling in site building.
Personal about me, I'm a nurse. Doing some serious research on becoming a PRN/midwife. Yes some would say it's foolish to go back to school now, but with "someones" support I will be in the top of my class. I hope to minor in some type of technology. I love to read, ride mtn bikes and want to learn to fly.
My age, thirty-something, this monday I might add.

[thegreatestdolphin]

Hello everyone nice to meet you im thegreatestdolphin

Hope to get along with you all on this forum