Defective game card reader

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Hi guys, I recently bought a Nintendo Switch with a defective game card reader.
The problem is that it cannot recognize, sometimes an error message occurs.

I looked on the game card reader under my microscope and compared it with a working Nintendo Switch that I got in stock, and found out that 2 components are missing.

So my question is:
Does anyone in the community know where I can get my hands on these missing components?

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The readers got different colors, but all components are located in the same place.
The one that doesn’t work is the dark green version and I think that 2 components are missing (Please take a look at the picture), but I’m not sure if that is the reason why it doesn’t work as it supposed.

Thanks in advance!

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At one of my working game card readers the same components are missing. At an other working one on the left position is a diode with a marking “7” on top and on the right postion it seems to be a cap.

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Hmm, thats strange if yours is working without them, maybe its another issue causing the problem…

i should probably order a new reader for about 7 dollar and test to replace it, what do you think?

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7 Dollars are not much in compare to the time and effort of fault finding. If the fault is caused by the game card reader.

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Thats 100% true micro soldering isn’t the hard part (my opinion) the troubleshooting is, as i have mention here before, im a iphone repair guy and there is much more information and schematics every part could be identified with a software and which other componets its linked to.

And i think its very strange that no schematics have been leaked from Nintendo, it’s almost 5 years since the Nintendo Switch was released and no leaked schematics (what i know).