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My lower Nintendo DS screen was blank, but the backlight was on and the touch panel works, so I replaced the display to no avail. I then tried turning the lower screen’s potentiometer to adjust the contrast and was able to get some display, but it’s only a partial display and some scan lines show up. I tried this with the replacement lower screen as well, but I got a checkered/plaid red/green line pattern. Are the screens toast? Should I try replacing the pot?
EDIT: various pictures of the motherboard.
Zoom-in on reverse side of board. Maybe C14 looks worse for wear, and there’s some corrosion between C15/GSP1:
@dstevens17 this “lower screen’s potentiometer to adjust the contrast and was able to get some display,” sounds like a recap may be the right thing to do. Sure, you could also change the potentiometer but those do not often fail. after that re-evalaute and see what you got going on. Right now it’s all pretty much a guessing game.
