My ds only decide to boot up when I poke it like picrel, and it boot up for a four or five minutes then boot loop then stop booting altogether then go back to step one. is it safe to just bridge the two point and connect the battery?
>>108193915would you not be better served with a new motherboard harvested from an otherwise defective unit at this point
>>108194017> new motherboard Do they still make new motherboard today?
>>108194047for a ds? hell no, hence the "harvested from an otherwise defective unit" bit
>>108193915I googled and found a schematic for your board, traced the via and the pin of the component you are connecting together, pulled up a datasheet for the component and... I have no idea I never studied E.E.If you google "ds pcb scan and schematic" you'll find the dropbox with the board diagrams and datasheets and you need the free program autodesk eagle to view the files.
>>108194121Knowing the scheme is one thing, making it work again is another thing. It is honestly tough nut to crack trying to fix the hardware, microsoldering is absolutely not for me, i would prefer to just hack around to bypass the safety trip that make it don’t boot.
>>108193915Do NOT just go bridging things.You need to know how those two points are related/connected first.
>>108194729The first point is the GATE of the toshiba mosfet, I believe it is to be open to allow power to go into the cpu, the second point can be any point that goes to ground I think, it would work even connect to the battery connector. But how to work around with some hardware mod? It is tedious to need to poke it again and again with probe when it stop working again. Ofc I can’t be sure what’s goes wrong because everything i see look fine to me.
>>108194850That trace doesn't look like it would be ground, though.
Identify wich component is damaged and replace it. If you can't replace the entire mono
>>108193915Your multimeter has something like 1M ohm resistance, maybe add a resistor instead of shorting it?
>>108193915>boot up for a four or five minutes then boot loop then stop booting altogetherSo your lil hack makes it go ... Then it stops going after a little while - sounds to me like something gettin' up to temp and hittin' failure mode. Resistors and capacitors tend to be first shouts. I'll put my money on capacitor. Based on the assumption that your bypass is puttin' power somewhere it'll flow past that defect and charge the collector enough to function for a lil while... But I'm fulla shit n don't know what I'm talking about...>microsoldering is absolutely not for meHot air gun. Pull with tweezer and hit with soldering iron, as it gets up to temp it'll seperate. Clear off the old gunk, apply new paste, plop the component onto paste with tweezer and when the surface tension of the paste turning to liquid adjusts it should seat it nicely...>>108195142>Identify wich component is damaged and replace itThis.>If you can't replace the entire monoWould be where I'm headed, myself. Pick up a second hand unit with a dead screen that's otherwise good...
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>>108193915Doesn't this mean some of the capacitors are fried? You have a real hardware defect somewhere.
>Get around to playing an old DS Lite again.>Has the worst ghosting I've ever seen.
>>108195611> Pull with tweezer and hit with soldering iron, as it gets up to temp it'll seperateGood luck with that, all of them are so small that when you slightly shake your hand and knock on them while ironing, it would just airborne into abyssess. I had loss a couple piece when trying to fix them.
>>108195611>hot air gunBlob solder on the iron and scrape off the part you fucking pussy
>>108193915a DS lite is £20-£30 on ebay. just buy a new one, it's clearly completely fucked.
