Hacking Question Nintendo Switch won't boot to OFW

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I turned off autorcm just now and it turns out my system can't boot to OFW, it just will boot up to a black screen however, it will boot with hekate to OFW in RCM.
I tried entering recovery mode (pressing power button and holding + - vol buttons) but it does not even boot into that either, black screen.
I do have backups of 6.1.0

How should I proceed from here?
Thanks.
 
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I turned off autorcm just now and it turns out my system can't boot to OFW, it just will boot up to a black screen however, it will boot with hekate to OFW in RCM.
I tried entering recovery mode (pressing power button and holding + - vol buttons) but it does not even boot into that either, black screen.
I do have backups of 6.1.0

How should I proceed from here?
Thanks.

Push and hold the power button for 30 seconds, and then do the CFW boot thing and see if it works. Sounds like you have a similar issue with my hacked Switch.
 
Push and hold the power button for 30 seconds, and then do the CFW boot thing and see if it works. Sounds like you have a similar issue with my hacked Switch.
that did not work system still boots to black.
this is probably a fuse issue, i guess more my question is will a hekate restore fix that?
 
If you had AutoRCM enabled, OFW will not boot unless the burnt fuse count matches the firmware version your OFW is on. Hekate should be able to boot CFW. You should try and see ChoiDuJour or ChoiDuJourNX(I think the later is just a homebrew so ChoiDuJour might be what you need?) to downgrade to the OFW that has the same fuse count as what is burnt.

Edit: I've never personally downgraded before, if you have a NAND backup from when you first hacked the switch, try restoring that?
 
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If you had AutoRCM enabled, OFW will not boot unless the burnt fuse count matches the firmware version your OFW is on. Hekate should be able to boot CFW. You should try and see ChoiDuJour or ChoiDuJourNX(I think the later is just a homebrew so ChoiDuJour might be what you need?) to downgrade to the OFW that has the same fuse count as what is burnt.

Edit: I've never personally downgraded before, if you have a NAND backup from when you first hacked the switch, try restoring that?
I'm on 6.2.0 . I think what happened originally that burnt the fuse was I was at a friends house and he accidentally updated it to try and play smash bros which updated it to 7.0 and burnt the fuse. I later restored to 6.1.0 which if I remember correctly booted to black. So I should try to update it to 7.0 and see if it boots I guess
 
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You should check your fuse count, if it's 9 you wont be able to boot into stock 6.2/6.1.
 
Hello, I have the same issue, can you explain about the fuses ? How can I know what to do where to get the info ... ?
Also I have AutoRCM OFF and grayed out is it a problem ?
 
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