First fix attempt on nintendo switch mariko which wont turn on

Hi @ll,

I am trying to fix a dead nintendo switch I got with joycon + dock for 100$ a year back. I found time to trying to repair it. I watched a dozens of youtube videos and was trying to analyze the Board the same way. I lack some basic electronic knowledge but I can solder SMD. :smiley:

My Board is a HAD-CPU-10
The preowner said it had the last time some storage or ram error!? He couldn’t tell. The switch itself didn’t seem opened or modified. Suggested a failed eMMC flash attempt, but his little kids were just playing as usual with it, so I doubt a modding attempt.
I tried some hard and soft reset’s but that wont work.
When I insert the switch into the dock, the dock’s LED blinks green once and stops.

I don’t have a usb-c meter, but I have a ā€œsmartā€ Anker powerbank with display showing current watt output.
When I plug it to the switch, at first it only drains 1W but jumps to 6,8W after a while.
I took the board out and did some basic diode testing.
There doesn’t seem to be an obvious short on any of the famous chips.
I tested almost all diodes on the board except the CPU under the shield. The backside of the board seems to be fine. All diode’s are fine. I also can’t see ā€œburnedā€ chips

But what I wondered and I dont know if that’s okay, 2 diodes didn’t beep.

Unfortunately I am not allowed to post media in a post… :roll_eyes:
I try to upload them afterwards here.
In diode mode, I see 1.112v right next to the bq24193
The other one which I don’t know what part it is (next to the LCD connector on the upper left corner) doesn’t beep too and has 1.739v on display.

Any idea how these 2 (resistor or capacitors?) are connected together?

http s://i.postimg .cc/rK3s9sss/PXL-20250707-123813290.jpg
http s://i.postimg .cc/LJPXQSgT/PXL-20250707-123901469.jpg

Hope that’s okay. Otherwise you don’t know what I am talking about. :frowning:

those are normal diode reading on v2, and they are not interconnected

Hmm… well, I cannot find shorts on the board. All diodes seem to be fine then. Any more ways to find out why it wont turn on?
I mean, can a broken eMMC cause to not turn on at all?
I dont have the proper equipment to check if the the switch passes the 1st and 2nd stage boot.

measure the voltage from boot stage if any missing instead of probing diode reading all around.