Shorts on a 2017 Nintendo Switch near the Sd Card Port

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Hello Everyone,

i have a nintendo switch currently on my desk which has some issues and i try to dig trough them and hopefully fix the console fully.

next to the sd card port, there are a lot of caps, and most them are shorted to ground, the console is not charging at all, but i can boot into hekate. sadly tho, can’t boot fw.

i was thinking about to first check to fix the short before i continue with the fw issue.
what would be the right way to investigate this issue now?

Kind regards

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if you meant this area caps are “shorted”, no they are just low impedance to ground due to the nature of gpu power line requirement.

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Oh i forgot to add the picture :smiley:

Okay, so that means i need to find out now why the switch is not charging, i replaced the BQ and M92 now just to make sure, and now the console is at least back from 0.00draw to 0.09A. something i can at least work with to dig deeper what could be the issue.