New Members - please post your introductions here

[brmawl]

Hola a todos, soy BRMAWL de Uruguay. Este foro me parece interesante.
Gracias.

[wrongway1]

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..

Been enjoying the reads on the site. I still replace chips the wrong way, pin 1. In to old school stuff but keeping up with new. I'm into nature scenes, so into film and gaming, pretty much all electronics.

[asaakira1969]

Currently trying to get a free but dumb dell inspiron 5490 AIO to stop giving me a "power supply wattage cannot be determined" warning and killing the neutering the clock speed down to 0.4GHz.

[kayn367]

hello i just guy who just got intrested in fixing laptop board

[ludovicagathe]

Hello everyone!

I'm an electronics enthusiast looking for ways to keep old electronics running, both for the planet and for myself, and this is how I landed here.

[dimony_74]

Hi ALL!

[pr24]

Hi everyone,
My name is Dawid and I am inspired by laptop repairs.
Best regards to all.

[dggn]

Hi,
My name is Dawid and I repair laptops, XBOX and PS consoles. I am inspired by repairing car amplifiers.
Hello everyone and greetings from Poland.

[Alex350]

Hey guys, new member here! I stumbled upon this forum while trying to find a power delivery schematic for an Asus GTX 1060 6GB.

I'm into electronics repair—it's my hobby and a bit of a side hustle

[sibuskk]

Hi,
I'm Sibu from Kerala India, I'm here trying to repair my dell precision laptop. I'm not a professional laptop service person, so expecting some help from this forum.

[chjaro3]

Hey All,
I am Chjaro3. I am a RF Electrical Design Engineer that hobbies in electrical repairs. My focus is on RF and wireless communication electronics and Antennas. I am looking forward to seeing what knowledge I can bring as well as what I can learn from all of you.

[gowthamreddysomala]

hello

[luismie30]

Hola a todos desde españa saludos chicos

[Macloud]

Ola a todos me chamo Gerson sou do Brasil

[Bradonis]

Hello there,
I need the schematics for the m1 MacBook Air ;-) I am just a hobby enthusiast ;-)

[elcielako]

Hi,
My name is Mateusz and I repair laptops, XBOX and PS consoles. I am inspired by repairing car amplifiers.
Hello everyone and greetings from Poland.

[Carlos2334]

Buenas a todos, soy nuevo en éste lugar, pero, alguien me puede ayudar a obtener la BIOS de una laptop ACER aspire 5735Z, en formato .bin o en .fd, en la versión 1.08, porque no lo puedo extraer del instalador, agradezco cualquier ayuda proporcionada, porfavor, ayúdenme
De antemano
Carlos2334

[Polopolo]

Hi everyone,

Let me introduce myself, Im a frustrated chemical engineer that want to learn more about tech, specially software. Since I was kid I used to fix the pcs we had at home... OS, Bios, software for free or open source ones. I see now things became harder, I have a Lenovo thinkpad with compromised Bios, doesnt let me update or make modifications/repair.
I've struggled to create bios .bin file from the .exe oficial website so that brought me here.
Laptop model is Thinkpad T480s, if someone knows something or can guide me on what to do I may invite you to dinner.

Thank you all!

[tupstechpc]

hi im joseph or sep for short. I am an aspiring to be a board level technician. I am building a business on computer services. I already been doing basic repairs, os repairs, cleaning and maintenance etc., but would like to learn more about board repairs. I didnt take my electronics class during my college years thats why i do not have the basics properly. Tho I really learn in being hands on. I believe I correctly diagnosed a simple H410m board and already bought the soldering tools haha. I found a good schematics that really helped to conclude my diagnostics. I’d like to learn more.

actually our family runs a jeepney business here in PH. My father is also the mechanic. I myself know some of these, but I want to be more of a computer mechanic. Looking forward to be helped and help others if there will be opportunities. Thanks! 🫶🏼

[Oscol]

Hi there! I discovered this site some time ago. I started to repair laptops for hobby and to help some friends. Obvioulsy I started with some basic IT and electronic knowledge, but after year of self-studying and practice I accumulated a decent amount of knowledge, and I still want to improve myself. I read some post and I like this community. See you on the forum!