New Members - please post your introductions here

[acemob]

Hello, searching newest working bios in bin for Lenovo Ideapad flex 5 14ALC7 type 82R9

[NXDev]

Hi everyone

[qwertyuio12345678]

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..

hi

[Ash_sus10]

Hello am ash

[Ash_sus10]

Hello everyone nice to meet u all

[mike.lu_1996]

Hi, I'm a former student working for the university here (non-profit) in Germany. I manage (autonomous) client computers and servers (as opposed to those managed by central IT) and stumbled up badcaps.net while searching for resources to repair a few legacy PCs (our oldest PC in use now is from 2007). Hope I could provide some help here, thanks.

[indic_g]

Hi myself indic, from Inida

[BootNewbie]

Hello everyone!
This is BootNewbie, a complete newbie when it comes to low level computer stuff.
I am a bachelor student, encountered this forum when trying to fix my corrupt bios, saw some good stuff and decided to hang on.

Let's get together 😄

[enrique4403]

Hola a todos compañeros, me presento, soy un apasionado de las reparaciones de electrónica y por eso me gustaría ingresar en este foro para poder ayudar y ser ayudado, para poder compartir la poca sabiduría que tengo sobre el tema y sobre todo para poder aprender.

[neandertool]

Hi, I'm Byron. I love experimenting with single board computers like the Odroids, RPi, etc. I'm also heavily into micro controllers like the ESP32, etc. More of a geek than a nerd I guess. This site is awesome. Great to see info being shared so freely.

[Troy Needels]

Troy, from central Ohio. Been poaching for awhile. Have been playing with IBM/Lenovo's more frequently as of late, seems the best place to be. Thanks for all your insights, tools, knowledge, and experience. Appreciate y'all. Later

[pty]

thank you soo much

[Johan Visser]

Hi, just starting out

[Infotronics]

Hola amigos estamos por aqui para aclarar dudas y ayudar a resolver problemas

[Ralphie097]

Hello Everyone,

I am fairly new to electronics repair. I had spent many years working with 12v mobile electronics, but that was some time ago.
I am interested in learning more to repair my electronics such as a dead xbox one and a cctv camera which no longer works.
I heard about badcaps from the youtube channel parts people. Glad to be here and hope to learn lots.

[alito666]

hi, i hope can learn from all here in thia Great forum

[davidmorillo]

Im david , Anything else you want to know, feel free to ask.

[Jo3nokokok]

Hi

[Zhen_0]

Hi. From the Caribbean. I love repairing electronics for friends and family.

[Jorge Pergon]

Hi. Greetings from México. Im a 45 Y.O. man trying to learn. Tnks