New Members - please post your introductions here

[Bernd007]

Hi
I am Bernd from germany. I have four children and they want to have new Laptops. I have to deliver

[jessea504]

Hi everyone, I have a Galaxy Book Pro2 with corrupted bios and searching for help and downloads for NP950XED-KA1US.

[danieldem23]

Hi erveryone!
My name is Daniel and i am from Germany. As of late i am quite a bit interested in repairing my own electronics and keeping them alive for just a little bit longer.
As of right now i havent actually repaired any electronics, but I hope to change this, as i recently had a mainboard go bad...
Nice to meet you and thank you for having me!

[LoreSniper19]

Buenas tardes, me llamo Lorenzo. Saludos desde México

[HotMommasCowboy]

I'm 100% new to anything electronics related and I am trying to learn it as a hobby. I was an electrician for about 10 years, but electronics is something I was always interested in, but didn't know how to get into it. The 80's didn't have internet like today! I purchased 2 used broken 3080 Ti's. A Zotac and a Gigabyte. I decided just to jump in feet first and figure it out as I go. The PCB for the Gigabyte is greek to me right now, but I have verified voltages except PEX and memory fall off about 10 seconds after turning the PC on. All other voltages remain. ChatGPT mentioned this site to me for schematics and boardviews. So I joined to see what I could learn in here and to see if schematics and/or the boardview would be enough to help me figure out where I need to go next to troubleshoot further.
This is something I'd like to learn, but it'll be difficult because I travel for work and I'm gone 4-6 weeks before i'm back home for a few days. So the learning curve will be slow for me since I'm unable to "practice" on a regular basis.

[Ellementair]

Hi . I am a pc enthousiast after being amstrad, atari, amiga one, and now evena technician. But i am very limited in caps and general electonic.

I just had a burned bios few days ago and discover this forum 😅

[MagicHertz]

Hi Everyone,

My name is MagicHertz and I've always been curious about electronics. I'm giving it a serious thought about doing it professionally, but I really need a proper deep dive starting from the basics, which I already started doing with YT vids, but considering a course as well.

I came across this forum while looking for a laptop schematic and boardview, since I like hands on learning and I got just the right broken candidate to get going. =)

See you around the forum!

[DKLH]

Hi! Everyone i have little experience in repairing laptops (changing parts 🥲) and want to learn more

[kness]

hello, im a new guy,um dont know too much about caps so bear with me..someone told me about yalls site ,,bam im here. thx for haveing me here...ill try not to ask to many questions,im full of them.....anyway can any one guide me to were i can ask.......trouble shooting a main power board?for a asus z690-g schmethic

[za8zak1]

Hi all, thanks for letting me in.

[rachus]

hi, everyone, I'm mr. chen, as rachus, newbie here, i hope i've post to the correct forum, hard to find where to type message, going around for 10 minutes, anyways, i love repairing motherboards, though some of my home lab equipment got burned and old, hoping to upgrade, lucky to find this forum, we can share and learn, my location is in Taiwan, Tainan, if there are anyone near my location, maybe we can do some bonding, ;-)

[Sajidm]

Hello

I am based in Karachi, Pakistan. I have limited expertise in board level repairs but also have a strong interest and desire to learn. This coupled with the extremely high cost and very limited availability of replacement boards necessitates options to repair faulty boards. That is the reason for joining badcaps.

[hnisingh1]

Hi. I am new hear. I have mobile and laptop repairing WORK FROM HOME

[Agalvijay]

Hello Everyone ,, I came here to fix my GPU by myself (burned some components while doing a benchmark (Sapphire Radeon RX 470 4GD5)). Never did component-level troubleshooting ...will start learning

[bbcjd]

我是一个电脑维修人员，希望在此在共同学习

[BoffinGus]

Hi Gus is my handle,
Joined as I'm fault finding a Sony Android TV stuck in boot loop....
Another forum suggested to look here for additional help.

[edocomsel]

Hi, I'm 50 years old, from Indonesia

[dexbdv]

Привет, я Дмитрий из Санкт-Петербурга. В электронике новичок.

[007Reaper]

Hi all,

So I have quite a long story which I'll summarize as best as possible,

Basically, I grew up wanting to work with electronics, but life had other plans, therefore I ended up playing around with things as a hobby..

After going as far as basic SMD reworking, I halted all focus in this area after not being able to work on my personal Apple Macbook air, due to a lack of sufficient equipment or ability to acquire such equipment at the time to replace a damaged BGA, such as a microscope..etc

Fast forward some years later, I managed getting an AMScope used, picked up some other equipment, and decided to get back into the groove of learning through practical examples.

I recently purchased two artifacting RTX 3060TI's which just required a VRAM change, and came down further down the rabbit hole of board repair, thus the joining onto this forum.

[sssssssssssssss]

Hello everyone!

I'm thrilled to join the badcaps community! I've been reading through the forums and I'm really impressed by the depth of knowledge and willingness to help that I see here.

A little about myself: I'm a student studying AI/machine learning in Miami, but in my spare time I enjoy working on older laptops and electronics as a hobby. There's something satisfying about bringing dead hardware back to life, and it's a nice break from the theoretical side of my studies. Most of my experience so far has been with basic component swaps and troubleshooting, but I'm always eager to learn more advanced repair techniques.

I'm looking forward to learning from the experienced members here and hopefully contributing back to the community as my skills develop. Thanks for maintaining such a valuable resource for electronics enthusiasts and repair techs!

Best regards,
John