The L button on my Nintendo DS will not work. Please help, it's only 2 years old with no drops or falls.

It sounds like a faulty battery. As it is under 1 year old, it is still under warranty. Return it to the origional place of purcase, who will either fix or replace it.

blow into the card slot, if that dosent work you should take it for a service or consider buying a new one as this problem only happens if the ds is old or extremely damaged. If you are using a 61 in 1 or something like that (101 in 1, TT, R4 or 1001 in 1) they usually have problems loading up because they are scrappy jobs (lazy people) and/or they are invalid. If it is single ds cards there are three things that could be causing the problem; the games could be dodgy, the ds could be dodgy or it is time for a new ds.

One thing, this has never happened in my ds in its 3-4 yrs so im using what i did with my mate's ds.
(by the way, it worked)

With white screens it usually the LCD that went out, since D.S. do not have a reset button, the only way to reset it to Factory settings would be to remove that battery, and you would need to remove the little screws on the back. I would leave that last. However if you guys have had this DS for less than a year i would contact Nintendo, or go to the website
because you would still be under the one year Manufactures warranty. I would highly recommend to not state it was dropped. Just that the screen went blank all of a sudden. Touch screen works fine. Make sure there is no physical damage though, as that usually voids warranty. I had to do that for my Wii. No cost to me since under one year. If its been longer then the year then you could do the hard reset by removing the batter for a few mins.
Good Luck!

There is a short somewhere within the DS. At this point, your going to have to get a new one or send it in for repair. here is the direct repair and troubleshooting line for nintendo 800-255-3700 hope i've helped in some way :)

Hit all the "m" until you get to the bird drop off. Switch to peach to hit the "!" button. Fly up and follow the arrows. Switch again to Mario. Press Y to rin fast across.Do NOT GO DOWN. hit the blocks and switch to peach. Switch back to mario. hit the bloacks then switch back to peach. go into the tunnel and switch to mario after that. then go into the tunnel and cross to the other side. follow the arrows and head UP. Fall down and go right. follow the tunnel and there is your short cut!

Hi,

The described problem you have happens normally if you dropped the DS Lite. So thats why Nintendo states that it must have been dropped. It would be difficult to proof that it not has been dropped.

This has happened to me as well. I wasn't able to find a fix, but as you've only had your DS for half a year, it's still under warranty (12 month standard on all Nintendo consoles,) so I would recommend sending it in for repairs. You can set up a repair order here: http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/repair/dslite_system.jsp?region=USA&is=s3O

It shouldn't take too long, when I sent mine in on a tuesday afternoon, it was back by friday.

Hope this helps.

did you drop it a lot? If you did you may not be able to fix it...

Leave it somewhere warm and dry. That's all you can really do. There's a good chance it's a goner.

If you are confident in taking it apart, just compare the L button to the R button, you should see what the problem is. And since you already have it open it will make it easy to replace what needs to be replaced, which is probably just the L button itself.