Hardware Is my 3ds screwed? Ram test came back with errors,

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So, my New 3DS suddenly started having issues with stability (Freezes on home menu, and isnt responsive anymore; sometimes failes to boot, boot.firm issues)
I posted a thread explaining it all , so I wont go into detail here.
Now, I ran the 3ds Hw-test.firm, and it came back like this. What does this mean? Is my 3ds screwed? It worked just fine
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about 2 weeks ago.
 
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The ram in your system is failing. You’re going to need to either replace the motherboard or replace the system.
 
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a_username_that_isnt_cool said:
ok i know this doesn't help but 1732176413 errors??? that's a lot
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I am still curious about what happened to it tho... I mean it was working fine for like 3 years and last week it started like out of nowhere. Never had any problems like that with it before...
 
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Why a new thread?
Anyway, the high number of errors can indicate the RAM chip is toast. Or maybe it can't be reached correctly due to broken solder joints.
That is just a layperson's guess.

That board would need troubleshooting by an expert.
This would be more than "just get another one" -- I'm actually interested in finding out what fails and why and if it can be theoretically repaired. The costs are prohibitive though (and I wouldn't know if somebody does such complicated things on 3DS; it is done on phones in data recovery).
 
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Is it known what ram chip the 3ds uses? If it is, then certainly an Expert would be able to solder the new one on. Sadly I neither have knowledge or equipment for soldering such small components, but I will look into it. Still don't have an idea why it failed from one day to the next. Never had any troubles like this with my system before...
 

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