Hardware Hard/Soft bricked N3DSXL. Blue light of dead. Help...

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Hi i recently bought a faulty N3DSXL with a broken board. I bought a replacement board and replace it. The console was working OK. My intention was this console to be sold after that. I want it to hack it because in my country this will allow me to sell the console faster i even found a buyer. I started the process everything was fine, but when i reach the point were i need to install FBI and so on through Rosalina menu the menu didn't respond to anything. I started reading and i found out that probably there is some button that was indicating to be pressed constantly. I quickly found out that was R shoulder button. Quick fix right? I opened the console i readjust the connector and now the console wont turn on. Blue light is turning on for less then a second and it turns off... It's not screen related - both screens are black and NO popping sounds. As i have working console i swap the motherboards and my working board is working on the 3DS that wasn't turning on and the one that is bricked is doing the same problem on the other hardware so there is something with the board. Is there anything i can do or I'm screwed and need a new board (again).

Other things i did try:

- with/without sd card
- with/without charger pugged in
- console won't enter recovery
- console won't enter gm9
- i tried to switch power boards with working one - nope, not working
- i tried to switch only the sd card reader - not working
 
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There is boot.firm in the card i tried to replace with fresh one - not working. As CTRNAND start+power on is not working.
 

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Okay so i did made a progress of some kind. After few attempts now the console with SD in it turns on but both screens are black. Without SD card the console turn off immediately. I did try every mode that i can think of to boot in but with no success.
 
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