Nintendo DS won't power on

I have a Nintendo DS which was working fine until a Supercard and passthrough (which had previously worked fine) was plugged into it. The DS now doesn't power up and when the charger is plugged in the charge light comes on then straight back on again. A second DS was tried with the Supercard with the same result. I left the batteries out overnight and tried them both but with the same result. Any clues??

Anonymous Sep 22, 2007

Neither ds will power up, with or without carts in. They have totally died, so I don't think it's something on the SC.

What I'm after is anyway to get the DS's back up and running!!

Thanks anyway.
Pete
mikaPELL Dec 24, 2007

Same problem here, but used a M3 Real, the DS is only one day old, and it worked great just hours ago. Now it won't turn on, let alone charge.

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PJ If youve installed the sc OS following instructions from http://eng.supercard.cn/soft_scdsone.htm , leaving the "MSFORSC.NDS" file and "scshell" folder at the root of the card then chances are the Card itself is bad. This is not uncommon and happens especially after a few dumps. If its not to old try an exchange or see if a friend has one and attempt theres in your system.

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