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Hi all! Very useful and needed forum.

[anggaent]

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hello, my name is angga i really like this site

[nologin]

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Hello from Russian Federation

[edoc]

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Hello, from Spain, I hope to learn a lot from this great forum.

[Element18592]

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Having some TV problems that I'm hoping to get some advice on. BadCaps has come up quite a bit in my searching for different problems over the last 2 years so it definitely seems like I've come to the right place.

[Apathy]

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Heyo brethren, here for those juicy schematics

[Chrichan]

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Just wanted to say hi to everyone out there.

[manicscholar]

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Hello from New York City (and sometimes Pittsburgh)

[aashiknaik]

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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..

Hello,
I m AASHIKNAIK & basically m mechanical engineer but have much more interest in electronics especially repairs and maintenance of electronic equipments.
I have seen that lot of technical people discuss their problems and resolve them with help of each other here and that's why i m here.
I have been repairing my own equipment and also friends' equipment
sometimes with the help of knowledge displayed on internet.Now, i can have guide from highly skilled people like you and it will help to improve my knowledge as well.
Thank you all,
AASHIKNAIK

[plutomaniac]

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Hello everyone! Thank you for all the useful info.

[Siddhant]

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Hello,
Iam Siddhant Naik from India, Goa.
We are into laptop repairing. Needed some tech help so was googling a luckily found this forum.
Thanks

[Ag3nt_X]

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Hello everyone I’m Mike. Just wanted to mention I read the entire first page of this thread and the entire last page (was not expecting to be almost 1000 pages in between)
So here goes my first P.C. was a TI-99 then a 64. I’ve since seen and worked on so many different types of electronics that I’ve lost count.
This seems like a great community to learn and share knowledge for the benefit of all.
Thanks for all the great information that is available.

[turnma]

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Hi. I've spent several weeks since my monitor died looking for this kind of forum and someone didn't come across this one earlier! Looking forward to exploring these forums...

[turnma]

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Hmmm, still don't seem to be able to view my profile or create new threads even after posting here. Am I missing something else?!

[turnma]

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Oops, completely missed the "one hour" cooldown thing. That'll teach me to not read properly

[luzvel64]

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Hello everyone. I'm from Guatemala. In this forum I found a lot of useful information. Thank you

[Zerocg]

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Looking to learn more about TV repair! found a ton of useful info so far!

[LowSpecActionSquad]

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Ay hello! Just looking for info on how to identify an SMC capacitor!

[lasa_dal]

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hi everyone ! I'm a mobile phone and laptop component level repair technician . found this site with lots of useful info. and hope to share my knowledge in free time .. cheers !!

[@plamen]

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Hi everyone,
This is Plamen here.
I won't tell you my age, but certainly will admit to have a beautiful grand daughter!!
My formal training is Physics related, and more specifically Practical Astrophysics, what I've been teaching and working on until few years ago. I was fortune to have an opportunity to work and live in four continents so far: Europe, (Bulgaria where I was born), Africa, Asia and finally New Zealand, where my family and I intend to stay in the future.
A side of my everyday work, since the time of being a student I wanted to develop more knowledge about doing electronics in practical terms so, now I hope to get a better chance to do so.
On the other hand I was always keen to be in the right foot with the latest computing technology as I started learning PC's with Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX81 and Apple II in the early 80's.
My family and I lives in Auckland.
Nice to be here.
Greetings.
Plamen