New Members - please post your introductions here

[Zaboy]

Hello.

[s.tratosx]

Hi to everyone. Love to join a community of entousiasts and knownledge.

[NicoLimon]

Hello I'm Nico Limon and I'm just a regular guy that's enduring regular problems with my HP Laptop 15-fd0083wm Administrator password and power-on password reset sooo if there's anyone who can help it would be greatly appreciated

[Genesistriplets]

Hello, name is genesis, and I do random stuff to computers for fun

[Thib-o]

Hello,

could you delete my account and send me an email to confirm it please?

Have a nice day

[DragoKober]

Hi folks,

I hope this is the right way to post my introduction to this forum ... at least I couldn't find another place to write something.

Concerning my person - I am a sixty something years old IT dinosaur, who started his computer activities with an Intel 8088 Microprocessor in the 1980's. So you can imagine that my experience started with Microsoft DOS, followed by MS-DOS with MS-Windows 3.0 and 3.1 (3.11). I avoided the painful experiences with Windows 95/98 through my next steps on Windows NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Win 7, Win 10 and finally Win 11.
Now I encountered a situation with an old Toshiba notebook, that refuses the GPT format for the HDD, since the BIOS does not offer the UEFI boot mode. Unfortunately I missed to go for a BIOS update, while Toshiba still offered customer support for their notebook branch. By chance I found the last BIOS version here on badcaps.net ...

[Snuppy]

hello,

my name is Snuppy. I‘m just starting fixing Laptops. Until now, I fixed smartphones. Surely similar, but at the end not the same.

[Agilulf]

Hi Folks,

I appear here under the name of Agilulf, which, besides being a medieval name, is the name of "the nonexistent knight", the Great philosophical novel from Italo Calvino, in which Agilulf is an empty armor filled in with a soul but no corpse. Agilulf is forced to remain active all night and day, otherwise he would stop to "live" and disappear for ever.
This kind of existence fits well, from my point of view, the way of living of geeks or people like here devoted to repairing machines, forgetting that the time goes by, spirit focused to make things revive again... In a way, Agilulf paradigm fits also the IA assistants (such as Chatgpt or French Mistral.ai), which, though having no soul, acquire an existence through their ability to act & answer questions. BTW, these public AIs are shamefully bad in electronics, which is not such (temporary) bad news for humans...

As for me, I have some basic knowledge in microelectronics field, but realized only lately that with some tooling it was not so hard repairing stuff, with some luck at least. I am a beginner as I repaired no more than three or four MacBooks. I am interested in both the technical and political aspects, knowing that repairing too much is bad for industry (simultaneously they overwhelm us with the urgence to "save the planet"), with Apple in forefront to brick their machines.

Congratulations to those who started or make live this badcaps initiative.

Repair thus Resist !

A.

[cavaco2008]

hi there. i'm John and i'm new here, nice to meet you all.

[mokori]

Hello there, I am curious about technology. I like to understand how things work, even if sometimes I don't have the knowledge, so I take an interest and learn new things.

[kabango]

hello

[thefruitypotato]

Hey everyone,

I'm an enthusiast that homelabs for fun and has an obsession with old laptops. Learning BIOS patching and getting started this week. This seems to be the place for stuff like that. I would type more but I don't want to mess with the setup I have on my desk while I reach over for the keyboard. Anyways wish me luck!!

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[Juan Chilavert]

Ya

[DrFactory]

Hello

What a great community here.

Thanks

[gorang]

hello, thank you.

[mattsuma]

Looking for schematic and brd for apple A1466

[alexmod]

Hi , I'm Alex how are you all ,

[mattsuma]

I am a new member retired and learning about pc boards etc chasing brd for apple 1466 and recommendations for free software tobrun the brd file
thank8ngbyou mattsuma

[John17]

Hello

[q695355539]

Hello everyone, I am very happy to be here. I come from China.