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DS is dead (symptomes similar to blown fuse)

Started by ndsor, April 04, 2009, 01:13:34 PM

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ndsor

Hello
Has anybody idea what left to do with the following symptoms?
After pressing the power button it blinks with green LED and with bottom screen (white color) for a sec.
After it's connected to the charger it blinks with orange light for a second.
The fuses were checked with a multimeter and were ok. The BIOS chip was checked for firmware with another DS and it was also Ok.
I found traces of  spilled chocolate drink inside the console - cleaned it  ???.
The seller told it had a firmware brick - but it looks like it is something else  :'(
Any idea what should i do before i'll totally loose any hope for fixing it..?
Thanks in Advance
Adam

dantheman

If the bottom screen flashes and then it turns off, usually this means that the ribbon cable connecting to the top screen isn't pushed in all the way.  The system boots, realizes it can't find the top screen, and powers off as a result.  The cable reportedly needs to be pushed in farther than most people think, so I'd check and see if that's the issue.