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[satanduck]

I have a set of really small screwdrivers for glasses and little electronics stuff, i use the biggest flathead one from the set and it works great!

[lord_kthulu]

Did I need to uninstall the previous version?

[ratx]

Not as part of the recovery. A paper clip works fine I find.

[Adattude]

I used a flat head screwdriver.  One of those really tiny ones you can get in a set at any 99 cent store.

[Adattude]

Did I need to uninstall the previous version?

No, the previous one was "erased" when you turned the power off.  You just need to get a better tool for the job.

[lord_kthulu]

No, the previous one was "erased" when you turned the power off.  You just need to get a better tool for the job.

I was assuming that, but panic makes you ask stupid things

Anyway, I'd like to say a big Thanks to all the people who gave me advice.

It seems that even stupidity cannot kill by little DS

Step away from the crazy person, there is nothing to see here......

All fixed, Woooooo Hooooooo

If I told you that I've worked in the IT industry for over 10 years you would scoff based on todays events!!!!  I dont know what possessed me to turn off the DS when I did.  I honestly though it had locked up (I was messing around for 40 minutes) and I thought the possible corruption was from the possibility of a dodgy write.  Kinda like ripping the power out of your PC when your running defrag, but alas I was wrong.

You learn something every day, so I scamper off to bed having fixed my DS and feeling like a Tool.

Intoxicated with the Madness,

Kthulu

[axis2k]

You may feel like a tool, but think of yourself as a tool whose DS, after all this drama, still works.

And it wouldn't surprise me that you've worked in IT for 10 years, I've known lots of IT folk who are useless around hardware  

Hehe, but seriously, this falls more into the realms of electronics, and only a mispent youth of soldering irons and circuitry would acclimatise people to this sort of endeavour really.
I"ll stick with hardware assembly myself, at least when I'm not  teaching anymore...

edit: oh, and one more thing; congrats on an fixed DS.

[lord_kthulu]

But thats the thing, I studied Electronic Engineering at Uni!!!   :roll:
I had that mispent youth playing with soldering irons.
It was just panic induced stupidity.

But now I just work mainly as a Developer/Developer Instructor, so that might explain some things.  What sort of stuff do you teach?

Intoxicated with the Madness,

Kthulu

[Hibbity]

Rolled up aluminum works pretty well to short SL1 also.