Hello everyone!

I'm Nigel, a self-employed computer technician with a passion (some might say obsession) for bringing dead laptops back to life. While others replace motherboards, I prefer to dive deep, hunting down faulty capacitors, shorted MOSFET's, and rogue power rails like a detective on a tech crime scene.

Whether it's a no-power issue, liquid damage, or a BIOS gone rogue, I specialize in component-level repairs. Micro-soldering? Done it. BGA rework? Bring it on. Staring at schematics until my eyes blur? Occupational hazard.

I joined this forum to...