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[mostafa_md2006]

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 ?

[Edwin95]

Hi I like to buy old vintage electronic items and do a teardown to make sure everything is original and use it for parts or upgrade to save the planet from e waste.

[Wizen]

Hello, I have a CF-D1N and want to remove the password. I can't proceed without help.

[Remplace]

Greetings from Romania!
Cheers!
Remplace

[savaron]

Привет всем меня зовут Алекс, я мастер любитель поэтому часто ковыряю разную электронику. Поэтому иногда нужна помощь более опытных коллег, так что надеюсь на вашу поддержку.

[Leehuggy72]

Evening from the UK.
Hi everyone..
very amateur in trying to mend and repair electronics and consumer goods.
hopefully there’s many knowledgeable people on here who can help me out if needed..
cheers
Lee

[achocr4tibe]

Hi evey one..

[gehasa2808@gmail.com]

Hello al friends, i will cooperate with this forum as far my acknowledement provide....

[andrewgreen]

Hi everyone, broke my Lenovo tiny and needed a clean BIOS image. Thanks for the great forum and resources!

[pc-lude]

Hallo
Mein Name ist Bernie aus Germany. Ich bin 62 Jahre alt und arbeite (jetzt) nichts mehr.😉 Früher habe ich in der Entwicklung eines Automobilherstellers als CNC-Fräser gearbeitet.
Meine Hobbys sind Autos. Früher hab ich auch einiges mit Computern gemacht (Win95, 98, XP), aber die Zeiten sind vorbei.
Da das Hobby Autos aber immer mehr mit Software zu tun hat muss ich mein bescheidenes Computerwissen wieder etwas auffrischen.
Viele Grüße
Bernie

[Chas]

Chas
3 grown up kids
58 (eek)
dabble in lots of areas
Electrical/engineering background.

[HIRO0704]

Hello guys im new here

[DOBBELDUNK]

Hi guys, it's my first post.. repair & troubleshoot PC is my hobbies. i found this website when i looking for my notebook bios file. thanks for your help guys... greeting from Indonesia

[mago1982]

Hello people, my name is Oliveira. I've always enjoyed forums like this where knowledge is shared. I think information should be free.

I hope to meet many technicians with whom we can share information that will help us all.