New Members - please post your introductions here

[banimal]

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Im new to the caps forum I am waiting to receive my caps to try to repair my 21" monitor I hope that it takes care of the problem, monitor would come on for a second then blink out.

by the way my first computer was a timex sinclair it was about one of the first pc's ever

[dumbass55]

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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..

Not much been trying 2 help my brother troubleshoot this dell E153FPb ran across your site thought it was pretty informative so here I am!!!!

[Nog]

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Hi, found your site after googling my Samsung 245B problem, and what a find. I'm from an IT background, worked in the trade for 20 years now from desktop support to Network Implementation but nothing gets me going like taking something to bits and fixing it myself, an open machine of any description in our office is like honey to bees, 7 or 8 people swarming round one desk because hardware is infinitely more fun than software. As you can tell I'm still a technician at heart.

[roddog65]

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Hi. I found your site while looking for solution to 20 Viewsonic power failures. I am something of the "jack of all trades, master of none". My degree is in public relations, but I have worked as a farmer, chemist in a national chain lab, mechanic, and am now the IT guy at our small rural school. I love to learn and this site seems full of knowledge. Thanks for putting it together.

[fznb]

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Hello, searched around google to repair my monitor and stumbled upon this site. Currently a computer systems engineer student and loving it.

[rednecktv]

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found this site in google need help with tv thought i would try

[jfarrell]

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newbie to the board, have seen numerous posts, time to join the part-y. t/y

[mariusrosca]

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Hello

[afool]

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Greetings..

Just found this site after an hour of looking for anything that could help repair a monitor. Found the thread with replacing the back lights.. bookmarked now, got the lights out and fixing to contact the place where someone in the thread had an addrress for a supplier of lights.. FANTASTIC! I already bought a new monitor, but hey, If this works, I'll have two!

I'm going to be poking around this site and see what everyone is into.. and have the feeling this site will be like a repair handbook for me.

I do work on computers, spare time, for beer! haha seriously.. case of beer gets me to do whatever to it.. It's a hobby working on them, and since I have the hobby of liking beer.. what the hell eh? lol I also repair satellite stations for the Govt <usa> So been around a lot. 61 yrs young, live in Nashville Tn. Can fix most anything, including rebuild engines, welding, computers, and I also own a painting company. I work hard at not working!

With that all said, I really like this site so far.

akb

[Wasted1]

Fascinating site.

I came here to investigate repairing an ancient 17" analog LCD monitor that, along with an Intel 845g motherboard, has provided years of reliable service. Although the monitor is repairable and it's in excellent cosmetic condition, it's future value/reliability, if repaired, would still be questionable. It's been replaced by a 24" 1080p HDMI Viewsonic that is temporarily running on VGA (with a 4x3 aspect ratio) until a throwaway AGP video card arrives next week.

Having a legacy motherboard makes incremental upgrades nearly impossible. But building a simple mini-iTX box for my living room should provide a ready back-up until my main system can be replaced (it's all obsolete PATA-100).

[dafrontier]

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Hello everyone,

I must say I have already started to feel good about trying to fix my gadgets to help myself and the environment. Therefore I would like to thank to the creators for this communal space. You guys allow electronic owners to recycle that is a great step for a clean world.

Also I am happy to get to know more about electronics to start with by having a 2006 model LG L226WA-BA monitor which was built with "comfortably bad" Samxon GF(M) and VOA caps.

I am happy to be involved with this forum.

[badbowtie]

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Hi I'm badbowtie. I'm new to this site with only grade 9 electronics. Please let me know if I become tiresome, the doctors said I could leave the facility.

[smason]

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Hi Frontier, and Bowtie! Nice to see some more Canadians here. There are quite a few of us here eh!

[Hotiron]

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Hi folks ,My names Cha from Aberdeen Scotland.
First got interested in computers in the late 80s First PC was a 286 with 1 meg ram and a whopping 20meg hard drive and a vibrant green monitor.
Worked in both electronics and IT Support.
Have rescued many motherboards from the bins and repaired.
Now I'm looking at getting down to the real nitty gritty surface mount Notebook
repair.
This looks to be a great site, hope you can all put up with me.

[Flipo]

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Hi, guy's glad to join this great forum that I've heard from the Philippines with the same purpose, and hopefully be able to learn from all of you.

Thank's for the welcome!

[TheLaptopDoctor]

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Well not exactly sure of how to introduce myself. But I call myself "The Laptop Doctor" since I have been doing things that no one wants to touch. Having been in Electronics since age 9 (yes 9!) starting back on Tube type TVs and advancing to RF and micro electronics. Degree in digital electronics, languages, graphic arts and other things that I no longer do. Working on anything from Enterprise/Challenger shuttle electronics, MX missles, Aegis class navy cruisers. Even hybrid IC's. Additional details on my blog (that I won't advertise here)

Always glad to see other tech's that are really getting into solutions.

[jakdedert]

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Hi! Jack Dedert, 58 from Nashville. I've been following this forum for years, but had some kind of disconnect with my subscription. That said, I've been using information from here almost since the site was created.

I'm a veteran dumpster-diver, thrift-store/pawn shop/auction addict. I've scoured alleys for usable electronics. I've not always been able to bring them back to life, but I learn from every failure. My favorite thing is to pick up something nobody wants and make it something anybody could use...and which I couldn't afford to buy new.

Professionally, I'm a media specialist--specializing in audio--in the event industry. I produce sound for some live shows and act as a site coordinator on others. I shoot video, rig systems, mix sound etc...whatever.

I'm the family IT guy. Between me, my kids and my ex, there are at least a dozen pc's to maintain (several of which I built from scrap/scratch). I'm also the family mechanic and maintain three residences; plumbing, painting, wiring etc. It's a full-time job in itself.

I've resurrected/restored laptops, desktops, digicams, GPSs, TVs, monitors (LCD & CRT), radios, pro-sound gear, speakers, hifi gear, cell phones...you name it. Still, my theoretical background is thin...which where y'all come in. I'm amazed at the lengths you go to help someone save a piece kit from the landfills.

Thanks for being here....

[David McMahon]

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Hello, Just joined the site!

For years I have seen PC's with poor capacitors and is good to have a forum here.

[nubparks]

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Thanks Bad Caps Members!!

After hearing through the grapevine that LCD monitors are plagued by bad caps, I stumbled upon the BadCaps.net forum. After reading through the forums I decide to peak at a motherboard that I had in the closet for 4 years. I replaced a couple of bad caps and brought it back to life. Since then I've repaired a 22" LCD monitor as well. You don't need to be the Charlie Daniels of the soldering iron, you just need to be armed with the abundance of information and assistance that can be found within this forum.

Thanks Again!!!
Nubparks

[NABUCODONOSOR]

Hello everyone

I am from Toronto, 48 ears old.
I am Mecano-Electronics engineer (Mecatronics) and my specialty is to design and to build machine tools, CNC and conventional, for metal, wood and food division.
I am very glad to join this community and forum.