Hacking NAND HW mod went wrong. Blue screen all the time.

[mvmiranda]

Hello guys,

I received today a 3DS XL where the customer attempted to update the emuNAND and flashed the sysNAND instead. He decided to give it a try and do the NAND hw mod by himself even knowing he didn't have the skills to do it. Guess what?! He blown up the DAT0 pad (ripped the pad apart) and right now everything the console does is blue screen.

I carefully checked the board for solder shortening or where it should not be but I could find anything.

I managed to carefully scrap the trace and soldered a thin wire to it, then I hot glued it in place. Wired the other 3 remaining and flashed the copy of his 4.5 NAND he extracted with his Gateway. It took something around 10 minutes to finish but finished successfully.

When I turned it on again, blue screen.

What else should I check? Could it be that something is "fried"?

Thanks in advance!

 

[ground]

Doesnt it give you an error code?

 

[gamesquest1]

good quality pictures would help

but the fact you managed to flash the nand means its probably not a bridged trace.......as i said some picture might help, but the BSOD is there for pretty a variety of hardware faults, the error code would also help i suppose

 

[mvmiranda]

Doesnt it give you an error code?

Yup!
The error code is:

BOOTROM 8046
ERRORCODE: 00F800FE
00000000 00000000
00000200 00000000

good quality pictures would help

but the fact you managed to flash the nand means its probably not a bridged trace.......as i said some picture might help, but the BSOD is there for pretty a variety of hardware faults, the error code would also help i suppose

Yeah, I should have... :/ when I scratched the trace and soldered the wire, I hot glued it :/ so I believe we won't see much. But I guarantee you the only "abnormal thing" was the DAT0 pad removed. The trace was still there.

Is there anything we can gather from the error code?

EDIT: pictures added
https://www.dropbox.com/s/obezipfdgm8a3ja/2014-11-12 09.13.45.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h0y9ef9i26c2sj8/2014-11-12 09.14.06.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/a5uxwd8snl0deyu/2014-11-12 09.14.16.jpg?dl=0

 

[Deleted-355425]

Can't see anything with the glue lol,

 

[gamesquest1]

well the error code is just the standard one that happens when the nand isnt working/reading properly


did you check the resistor array and make sure the trace want snapped where it connects to the resistor array.....if it is you could probably bridge here

also is that damaged where i circled in yellow?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ele6acczpih5boh/2014-11-12 09.14.06.jpg?dl=0

PS. yeah that does mean you could of just soldered to the resistor array without scraping traces unless ofc the trace was torn disconnecting it from the resistor array, in which case that's most likely your problem

in fact im feeling pretty confident this is the most likely cause as it explains why you could read/write to the nand but the 3ds isn't reading it

 

[Deleted-355425]

If you are going to attach a flying lead to a track use a fiberglass pen to remove the coating off the track.

 

[mvmiranda]

Can't see anything with the glue lol,

Yup... I know... I'm afraid if I remove the glue I'll rip the trace off and then this is good by forever, as the trece ends bellow the NAND chip :/

well the error code is just the standard one that happens when the nand isnt working/reading properly


did you check the resistor array and make sure the tace want snapped where it connects to the resistor array.....if it is you could probably bridge here

also is that damaged where i circled in yellow?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ele6acczpih5boh/2014-11-12 09.14.06.jpg?dl=0

PS. yeah that does mean you could of just soldered to the resistor array without scraping traces

It's not. It's just some of the hot glut that is near the array.
Lemme try to upload some high resolution version of one photo.

here: http://oi59.tinypic.com/a5hc2.jpg

 

[mvmiranda]

If you are going to attach a flying lead to a track use a fiberglass pen to remove the coating off the track.

I did it already Thx for the tip though

 

[gamesquest1]

ok heres a quick crappy diagram to explain what i think is wrong

if the trace was torn a the red arrow it would be ok, if its torn at the yellow arrow past where the trace connects to the resistor array you would need to fix that trace to reconnect the nand back up to the resistor array

 

[mvmiranda]

ok heres a quick crappy diagram to explain what i think is wrong
if the trace was torn a the red arrow it would be ok, if its torn at the yellow arrow past where the trace connects to the resistor array you would need to fix that trace to reconnect the nand back up to the resistor array

Hmm... I gotcha!
I'll check that and post results. I'll heat the glue with an old solder tip and remove the wire without damaging further the trace.

Thx!

 

[mvmiranda]

New post to draw ppls attention. Sorry if I break any rule :/

ok heres a quick crappy diagram to explain what i think is wrong
if the trace was torn a the red arrow it would be ok, if its torn at the yellow arrow past where the trace connects to the resistor array you would need to fix that trace to reconnect the nand back up to the resistor array

I guess you nailed it!
Look at this new pic: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pc8eanghtmyiayf/RippedPad.png?dl=0

It really seems that the resistor array is "disconnected" from that pad. Isn't it?

I'll do a "jumper" connection between the wire and the res array pin and then solder again my DAT0 wire. Let's see how it works.

Thx a bunch!

EDIT: Yup! Confirmed! Continuity test between the res array and the scratched trace doesn't beep
EDIT2: still the same issue after the trace is reworked.

 

[gamesquest1]

Well that's good, always nice to save a 4.x from the spares bin

 

[mvmiranda]

Well that's good, always nice to save a 4.x from the spares bin

Well, still nothing. All I have is a blue screen.
New pic: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8co7zzzzy83wmcl/ReworkedTrace.png?dl=0

Yup, that's a sloppy job on the scratched trace solder... I know

EDIT: what are the resistor values in the RA2 and RA5? Should it be 100ohms each?

 

[Deleted-355425]

101 =10 and one 0 to make 100r

 

[mvmiranda]

101 =10 and one 0 to make 100r

Thx!
And RA5 is 513 so it shoudl be 51k ohms right?
It's ok. But RA1 I have near 100 ohms in all resistors but 1. The one I reworked the trace.

 

[Deleted-355425]

Correct 51k

 

[mvmiranda]

Correct 51k

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8co7zzzzy83wmcl/ReworkedTrace.png?dl=0
RA2: red arrow: not measuring. Seems like there's no resistor at all. Blown up???
RA5: yellow arrow: all measuring aroung 50k

 

[gamesquest1]

Yeah it may of been damaged, maybe too much heat,you should be able to just fit a single resistor in its place, just double check the resistor array I circled earlier too

 

[Deleted-355425]

You are going to have to remove the resistor if you are not sure, if you don't feel confident removing it and know it really is not giving you any reading from it just solder one on top of the old one and bridge the terminations, if not remove it and place a new one get some thin wire and replace the ruined track.