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Hardware > Where is the BIOS chip of the DS Lite?(Flashme 1% Brick fix)

#82857 - nexxyz - Wed May 10, 2006 9:38 pm

Hi!

romman from the Supercard site has posted a solution for fixing those bricked DS Lites that got turned off at around 1%.

It involves opening up the DS and switching the BIOS temporarily with a working DS.

I just got my DS open and wonder if the chip at the top left are (pluggable) is the right one? There's also a cable attached to it, so if that's the right chip, it would be nice to have an idea on how to safely remove it.

Thanks!

Details to the procedure:

You open up two DS, one which has a working firmware, and one bricked.
Put the working firmware chip into the broken DS.
Start it up.
Start the Flashme installer.
Change back the BIOS to the broken one without turning off.
X B X B you know the rest.

The result supposedly consists of two happy DS Lites.
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#82925 - Lynx - Thu May 11, 2006 5:19 am

EASH! Takes a pretty good friend to lend their firmware chip! :)

#82936 - nexxyz - Thu May 11, 2006 8:17 am

Lynx wrote:
EASH! Takes a pretty good friend to lend their firmware chip! :)


Hehe, well, as soon as my first one went dead, I ordered a second one, so that's ok.

Well, I continued experimenting. Seems I was right, that seems to be the only relatively large removable chip. The wire is removed by simply pulling it off. I practiced with my dead unit.

Now, the question is: is it worth it to risk bricking my new one by doing the temporary switch?

Well...knowing myself, I just know I'll try it.
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#82937 - adrian783 - Thu May 11, 2006 8:19 am

if you can take the firmware chip out, you can put it in a socket and flash it without another ds lite

#85004 - giltesa - Fri May 26, 2006 10:16 am

Hello,
I have a new NDS-Lite, and a broken NDS-Lite to that cable please refers to repair it that have to make him, be plentiful me me serious of a lot of help.
What cable is it? :-(

Thank you in advance

Greetings.

#85216 - giltesa - Sat May 27, 2006 9:58 pm

Already him and gotten me alone without your help, of anything.

As I am good person and I toss a tutorial in this it paginates, this in SPANISH

Greetings.

http://www.elotrolado.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=557921&perpage=10&pagenumber=1