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DS Misc > DS not working help needed!!!

#99490 - InF3Rnus - Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:15 am

I'm new to these forums but I have read them for a few months and I came across the LED mod for gba carts. So one day i decide to do that to my GBAMP and now my DS won't turn on. The only sign of life I get from it is if I plug in the charger and then the charge light only stays on for about 2 seconds. If I turn on the DS while the light turns on all I hear is the LCD's fire up or it crackles and then immediately it turns off help needed!!!!!! also this is a firmware v2 phat DS. Also PM me if you need any sprites done :)(I do sprites :D. Please anyone !!! I need help I'm chewing on my tongue right now I need a fix or I can't do anything in the HB scene anymore I'm broke :(.
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#99501 - Lick - Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:11 am

I think you burned something..
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#99503 - InF3Rnus - Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:17 am

[quote="Lick"]I think you burned something..[/quote]

Well I Don't think I could have cause it's 3V coming through that circuit and back all the time and the light took up quit a bit of energy so I don't know this could have broke. really makes me mad though :( atleast some replied though lol
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#99505 - josath - Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:23 am

Possibly a blown fuse? search this forum, there's other posts about it I believe.

#99523 - dshacker - Tue Aug 22, 2006 5:23 am

done the same thing with my old ds. I used a passme, and it slid out of the ds cart slot and the ds turned off. After that, the ds wouldn't turn on and when I did the same thing with trying to use the charger and turning it on, you get a weird sound. The only suggestion is to get a new ds. THe old one will never work again.

#99534 - JaJa - Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:30 am

Yup, blown fuse.
Possible short circuit in the GBAMP?
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#99578 - InF3Rnus - Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:23 pm

Dang it allwell thanks for the help guys I think I'm gonna gets me a ds lite :D
lol but, I have to wait a while because I have to save up unless a DS Lite isn't worth the cost. plus I have tobuy an mml to play demos which makes me angry.(I don't want to flash it it'd be to risky IMO)
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#99582 - Lick - Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:32 pm

Flashing is not risky at all. So easy. I've done it twice without breaking a sweat.
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#99585 - InF3Rnus - Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:47 pm

I'm just going to be safe with it if I break this next DS may God have mercy on me lol. I just don't want to spend alot of money on broken ds's.
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#99594 - josath - Tue Aug 22, 2006 4:22 pm

So did you even check the broken fuse? It's not that hard to fix. It's just one little tiny piece of wire that is blown, and everything else should be working fine still. Seems kind of dumb to replace the whole DS if it's just the fuse.
That's like when you blow the breaker at your house, buying a new house instead of flipping the breakers in your basement.

#99619 - tepples - Tue Aug 22, 2006 6:40 pm

Except the DS uses surface-mounted fuses instead of pluggable breakers.
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#99622 - omaremad - Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:02 pm

A simple short circuit should suffice

#99636 - InF3Rnus - Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:17 pm

If it's surface mounted then wouldn't I be able to just solder a new fuse in that spot above the old one? And any suggestions on how to make a homemade tri-driver? I was thinking about using clay lol. Thanks for the help so far.
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#99645 - vb_master - Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:03 pm

Short F2, next to the charge port should be the problem.
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#99657 - Flood_of_SYNs - Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:23 am

natrium42 wrote:
Shorting the fuse is one layer less protection of shorting the li-ion battery. You are lucky that there is a protection ciruit in the battery itself, but if it malfunctions... there is a video how li-poly (a kind of li-ion) batteries explode over here:
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=151687

SMT fuses are available at Digi-Key. DarkFader tested the fuse to be 1.5A (ifI remember correctly). But we don't know if it's fast-acting or slow-acting.

If you are any good at solding SMT parts, replacing the fuse would be best.

Or maybe you could mod a small circuit breaker into your NDS unit (An idea which I like).
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#99662 - InF3Rnus - Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:09 am

Well thanks for all the help but this still doesn't fix my problem of making a mkeshift tridriver. :( anyone know how to do it? I don't feel like waiting by ordering something off the net. And no I'm not moding my DS although the 1.7x's faster mod makes me want to lol.
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#99670 - tepples - Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:13 am

InF3Rnus wrote:
Well thanks for all the help but this still doesn't fix my problem of making a mkeshift tridriver. :( anyone know how to do it?

Get a one dollar set of precision screwdrivers and find the standard (minus shaped head) one that fits best.
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#99710 - InF3Rnus - Wed Aug 23, 2006 2:23 pm

yay I already have those wooot!!!!! :) now I don't have to spend a waste of 500000000000000000000 google dollars. llol Thanks for the help guys hopefully this will fix it.
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#99747 - InF3Rnus - Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:01 pm

Can anyone give me a link directly to the site that says that the fuse is 1.5A
because I bridged the fuse and it's working, but I still need a line of defence so my DS doesn't go x.X . So if anyone on here can link me and tell me what exactly the part is that'd be great.
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#100084 - InF3Rnus - Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:55 pm

Guys I need someone to really help I can't kep on playing my DS without a fuse it's like a gun without a saftey. It would be great if someone knows the F2 fuses specs.
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#100091 - TJ - Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:31 am

Not really, as long as you don't short circuit anything, the chances of the fuse ever burning out under normal use is almost zero.

#100119 - JaJa - Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:15 am

Just use some thin wire.
Or try and read the values on the fuse?
I know they're small but they still have a value painted on (normally anyway).
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