My son dropped his ds in water and it wont power up... any suggestions?

this happend to my sister it dont work anymore had to get a new 1 when ever it dropped it broke a little chip thing inside take it to a gamestop take it appart see what the problem is

get a one on ebay and tell him you 'fixed" his.....just trow the old one away........he wont know, just make sure its the same kind and color

this is pretty bad mate.this is because the one you have bought has been sort of virused so i suggest you go and complain to the person/shop who sold it to you and you have to get a new ds because the ds you have got now has been virused soyou cant play it anymore ok thanks for asking and sorry that you have to get a new ds mate.p.s get rid of the downloaded game card!

@JoepIt, you have a defective LCD screen. Could be upper of lower (I thing for 99% the upper).


@pietras1422, on the mainboard next to the power-switch, there is a resistor. If could be loose or is missing completely. Problem will occur when the DS Lite is dropped to the ground

See when you dropped it in the toilet it shorted out it caused the ds wires to get water in them.You have to call nintendo.if they cant fix it they will end you a new one!

Hello dontim2,

Sorry to hear that our son's DS is no longer powering on. I found a link for Nintendo.com that may help you out.

http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/repair/dslite_system.jsp?is=s3B

I hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Agent Xiong

Not sure if this will help you, but my son dropped his on to a concrete pavement and it wen black, the charge lite would only come up for one second then go out when I plugged it in to charge. Just for fun, I had a spare battery and changed it. In this instance, the system started working again.

Not sure how this can happen, but dropping it on the floor seems to have killed the battery that was in it. A simple replacement battery did the trick for me.

Good Luck in fixing yours

Components may have come loose on the board, or damaged solder joints. Water damage can sometimes only appear after water has had time to seep, unless knock helped throw some residual water around inside, onto things it shouldn't touch.

If the console has overcharged or has been used for long periods of time or could just be fluke, chances are the fuses are blown on the main motherboard try this link, this guy fixed my ds and i had the exact same problems as you guys have

It could be that your son dropped the DS. The screens are probbably not dead, but a connection may have come loose. The screen connection cables, especially the LCD power ribbon, are sensitive. You can try disassembling the DS by following any of numerous disassembly toutorials (search Google!) and make sure everything looks normal, that is, all the ribbions are tight.