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.