New Members - please post your introductions here

[lloydsgadgetrepair]

Good day everyone,
Thank you for accepting me, aspiring laptop board level technician,.
hoping for more knowledge and ideas from this forum,

more power!!!

[BeOneIT]

HI. Sam from Scotland.Hoping to find help for the seemingly endless laptops going to waste because of 1p components!

[darksridus]

Hello, my name is Driss

I'm a french guy (sorry for that xD)
I have grown up with pcs but i have to say the hardware part is not my speciality.
I have 40, one child, I work as IT consultant.
I have a PhD on remote sensing.
I love to run and i hate when my pc doesnt boot while everything was ok the day before

And i want to thank everyone who is sharing his knowledge to help others (especially the noobs like me)

Regards

[francisew]

I design and build all kinds of equipment...

Today I'm trying to recover critical data from my daily driver laptop- a 13" Dell XPS 7390 2-in-1.

What a disaster of a system. From day 1 it had numerous issues, like the display driver going through several years of recurring failures to recognize external displays (13" on board- failing to support external displays basically killed the ability to be productive). Then the external audio jack only working one time directly after each boot. Meaning anytime I wanted to connect external headphones the system needed to be rebooted. The battery life was only about an hour when first purchased. That was with their marketed '8-hour' estimated battery life.
Now it won't make it to the post screen. 😱 And I found out the hard way that rather than using nvme, it has an eMMC soldered directly onto the system main board. 🥺

Dell suggested I should send my system in to them. Then they said I need to back up all the data before they will try to help me. I pointed out that's impossible to do. Never again, Dell!

I'm hoping that I will be able to salvage the data, though I suspect it will be very difficult. I see that there's a bios dump on this forum... 🤞

[techy2021]

Good Day Thanks!

[Botias56]

Hola

[spmetroil]

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 everyone,

My name is Brayan and I recently joined the Badcaps community. I work in IT support and often deal with hardware repairs, especially DVRs, NVRs, and PCs.

I joined this forum because I know there are many experienced members here when it comes to BIOS/EEPROM dumps and board-level repairs, which is an area I want to learn more about and contribute to when possible.

Looking forward to sharing and learning with all of you.

Best regards,
Brayan