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    BSOD N3dsxl

    I was able to do it at least once, I'm sure I'll be able to do it again. :) I took some photos as requested around the area that SHOULD supposedly be the NAND- I didn't notice any obvious disconnected parts, so I'm under the impression that the NAND was just going bad. Still, hopefully someone...
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    BSOD N3dsxl

    Sorry for the radio silence the past few days- I replaced the motherboard in the 3DS, and it turned out it was exactly the issue- something was up with the NAND chip I guess, since the new motherboard doesn't even freak out when trying to start it up. It just starts up as normal. I'd probably...
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    BSOD N3dsxl

    It's funny you mentioned that, I talked with my dad (who's a lot more knowledgeable about computer stuff than I) about it, and he suggested that there might be a loose contact or something on the chip given how it'll work after enough attempts and the stars align as opposed to starting it after...
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    BSOD N3dsxl

    Ever since I hacked it and started going through guide by guide to figure out the root cause, it's started out the corrupt boot.firm files (magenta light, red light). After enough booting tries and trying to get into the safe mode, it may give me an arm11 error or a "unable to mount ctrnand or...
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    BSOD N3dsxl

    Unfortunately yes. When there's no SD card inserted, it gives me the magenta notification light, then turns off shortly after booting.
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    BSOD N3dsxl

    I don't think I properly explained it: The 3DS I bought from ebay appeared to have no indication of it being hacked whatsoever, with it freezing during bootup and stuck with a blue light on but no other responses. I've noticed that this behavior stops after trying to turn it on several times...
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    BSOD N3dsxl

    So this might've been a giveaway on what's wrong with it, but a cold bootup process usually results in the errors- be it a corrupted/missing boot.firm or the crashing with Arm11 Core issues. After enough tries, it'll start up just fine. It'll boot into whatever menu, it'll play games without...
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    BSOD N3dsxl

    Good news there, I did the CTRTransfer and it went through without any issues. And that's what I thought as well, but the guide was saying that red notification light + power on into power off meant that there was an issue with both the SD card boot.firm file and the boot.firm file on the 3DS...
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    BSOD N3dsxl

    So I've been getting a variety of errors, ranging from [[Arm11 Core 3 prefetch aborts]] and [[Arm11 Core 1 data abort]] to Unable to mount CTRNAND or load CTRNAND firm]]. But mostly I've also been seeing the notification LED flash red when trying to boot up and it powering down. Ruling out the...
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    BSOD N3dsxl

    Alright, that'll be my next steps. I managed to get it working enough to get GodMode9 running and get a NAND backup, so I'll be looking into the CTRTransfer and I'll report back with what I find.
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    BSOD N3dsxl

    At this point, I'm just throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks, lol
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    BSOD N3dsxl

    After going through the modding process, it's occasionally giving me the "cable disconnected/can't find file" boot error of turning on then turning off with a red light. Sometimes it'll boot up just fine. I'm trying a different SD card to see if that'll help anything, since I'm guessing that it...
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    BSOD N3dsxl

    Yep, I do have access to the home menu. The black light/freezing is very intermittent, sometimes it happens, sometimes not and it boots up as normal. I was able to make my way into the home menu and do the hack via Pokemon Picross to get the mod installed, but I notice that the freeze/BSOD only...
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    BSOD N3dsxl

    I had a job where I was a hardware repair technician, and at times you never really knew what the problem was going to be with some devices. I figured I could apply that same technique towards my hobby of fixing things, with researching as I get the problems instead of researching ahead. It...
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    BSOD N3dsxl

    "I don't know what you mean by "format mode (?)", so maybe you could go into some detail there?" I mean the mode where you boot up by holding L + R + Down + B. That and the L+R+Up+A methods seem to reliably boot up albeit sometimes freeze midway through. I appreciate the links, I'll let you...
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