Hello, I don't know where this belongs so I hope it is in the right section.
Since a few days I had this issue with my Nintendo Switch where playing the games would just crash and popping up the error "MicroSD card was removed" here and there, coming more often. Mostly when I had the thumb in the location where the MicroSD card reader is. It's not the SD cards fault since I tried multiple and they all work on other devices so that's not the case. Must be hardware-related.
So I bought a replacement part from a third-party, and installed it, but now it's not reading the MicroSD's at all anymore, and it's happening with both, the old original and the replacement part now. So I took a closer look at the mother board. I see that there are 3 "pins" or whatever the golden parts on the connector are, are missing, and they appear to be stuck inside my original card reader.
I will attach a photo of that (you can see my spudger pointing at said pins). Now my question is: What can I do to fix this and be able to read SD cards again? Sucks because that's where basically all of my games are stored. My friend already suggested that the entire mother board has to be replaced, but wouldn't that make me lose all my save data? (On games that are actually stored on the system, that is). And if it comes to that, would I be better off buying a replacement part on my own, and have a friend replace it, or send it to Nintendo, with having the fees + shipment, potential high repairing costs, and at the risk of definitely losing my save data? (since they will just send you a brand new one in return in those cases, I've heard). By the way, I still have 3 weeks of warranty left on this console.
I have absolute zero knowledge when it comes to hardware, and even less when it comes to soldiering. Hopefully some experienced people can tell me what to do here.
Since a few days I had this issue with my Nintendo Switch where playing the games would just crash and popping up the error "MicroSD card was removed" here and there, coming more often. Mostly when I had the thumb in the location where the MicroSD card reader is. It's not the SD cards fault since I tried multiple and they all work on other devices so that's not the case. Must be hardware-related.
So I bought a replacement part from a third-party, and installed it, but now it's not reading the MicroSD's at all anymore, and it's happening with both, the old original and the replacement part now. So I took a closer look at the mother board. I see that there are 3 "pins" or whatever the golden parts on the connector are, are missing, and they appear to be stuck inside my original card reader.
I will attach a photo of that (you can see my spudger pointing at said pins). Now my question is: What can I do to fix this and be able to read SD cards again? Sucks because that's where basically all of my games are stored. My friend already suggested that the entire mother board has to be replaced, but wouldn't that make me lose all my save data? (On games that are actually stored on the system, that is). And if it comes to that, would I be better off buying a replacement part on my own, and have a friend replace it, or send it to Nintendo, with having the fees + shipment, potential high repairing costs, and at the risk of definitely losing my save data? (since they will just send you a brand new one in return in those cases, I've heard). By the way, I still have 3 weeks of warranty left on this console.
I have absolute zero knowledge when it comes to hardware, and even less when it comes to soldiering. Hopefully some experienced people can tell me what to do here.