Hacking Question Switch wont power on after attempting RCMX86

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As you can see, ive soldered the common points for rcmx86, including under nand, yes not the best job, but regardless this doesnt turn on or show anything on screen and I have no idea why, any ideas, or stuff I should try let me know

Some closer higher res images of the common pads, under emmc nand the 2 points seem to be a perfect job but if needed I can capture that too.
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Do you have autorcm? What is your fuse count? Was it working properly with the modchip? Why did you remove it? What actually happened?
Autorcm no, Fuse count last I checked was 7 or 8, 8 i think, It was but remember I was having joycon issues, I removed it to make the wires smaller as they were extremely long and to do a better solder on them in general.
I have no idea what caused it to stop working, though the last time I did something before the issues arrised was I was messing around with a multimeter to check if gnd near power was sending to stuff on D+/D- and to check if D+/D- was sending to the RCMX86 (which they all were).

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Did you unplug battery before soldering?
I wont lie im pretty sure I forgot to at some points
 
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As you can see, ive soldered the common points for rcmx86, including under nand, yes not the best job, but regardless this doesnt turn on or show anything on screen and I have no idea why, any ideas, or stuff I should try let me know


If you removed ribbon cable next to joycon then reseat it - It doesn't look all the way in. This cable will stop switch from posting.
 

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I wont lie im pretty sure I forgot to at some points[/QUOTE]

Well there is your issue, you need to unplug battery when soldering, probably a damaged board now.
 

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If you removed ribbon cable next to joycon then reseat it - It doesn't look all the way in. This cable will stop switch from posting.
It does look out a bit but im unable to push it in any further

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I wont lie im pretty sure I forgot to at some points

Well there is your issue, you need to unplug battery when soldering, probably a damaged board now.[/QUOTE]
If I plug it into my PC it shows up as a malformed USB configuration device, so its fairly odd

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I added higher res pics of some areas, perhaps may help
 
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It does look out a bit but im unable to push it in any further

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Well there is your issue, you need to unplug battery when soldering, probably a damaged board now.
If I plug it into my PC it shows up as a malformed USB configuration device, so its fairly odd

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I added higher res pics of some areas, perhaps may help[/QUOTE]


Just checked mine and yours looks a bit out - That is most likely your issue. Push clip up and try pushing in with tweezers one side at a time and see if it goes in more. I had a brand new switch in that was sensitive there.
 

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If I plug it into my PC it shows up as a malformed USB configuration device, so its fairly odd

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I added higher res pics of some areas, perhaps may help


Just checked mine and yours looks a bit out - That is most likely your issue. Push clip up and try pushing in with tweezers one side at a time and see if it goes in more. I had a brand new switch in that was sensitive there.[/QUOTE]
Im really trying but it genuinely wont go in any further
 
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Just checked mine and yours looks a bit out - That is most likely your issue. Push clip up and try pushing in with tweezers one side at a time and see if it goes in more. I had a brand new switch in that was sensitive there.
Im really trying but it genuinely wont go in any further[/QUOTE]


K what power point did you use>? If you got any flux on that ribbon cable clean it as best as possible.
 

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Im really trying but it genuinely wont go in any further


K what power point did you use>? If you got any flux on that ribbon cable clean it as best as possible.[/QUOTE]
no flux it seems, power point? as in like VCC for the chip? i used the 2 points under the nand

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its most likely a dead board :/
just gonna buy a new one
 

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