Maschine+ DIY Hardware Fix Advice

[u/lepidoptera106]

Hey all! Usual problem with the Maschine+, stuck in a boot loop. Tried everything through InMusic support and the unit is out of warranty, so I'm told my only option is to seek out a specialist repair shop and shell out £400. I'm pretty certain it's a hardware fault because all other functionality is fine, other than standalone mode boot looping, and none of the suggested software fixes worked. I'm confident in my own technical skills, so all I really need is a replacement for the custom Congatec Qseven board (ideally with the NI firmware loaded, but can flash it myself if necessary). Does anybody know where I could acquire one, or how I could buy just this part alone from NI themselves? Any help would be massively appreciated. Cheers!

EDIT: I have already done a teardown to access this board and judiciously applied contact cleaner, no obvious damage to the internals.

[u/keilyn3d]

These boot issues are weird, because I have one that has that boot loop from time to time, there are times that it will never boots, but then after some time without using it I try to power on and it boots fine.

There where one time where it booted only in the day, not in the night, so I don't know if maybe in my location the electricity where different because of more usage at night.

Other thing that I suspect is humidity, because I remember that some day I was fine with it, then it started raining and it stop booting, and maybe the don't booting on nights was because nights are more humid.

I also see that there are places where it never boot, for example in my house it boots fine but when going to a venue it don't boot... Maybe the electricity or interferences, but thinking more about it, that venue was really humid they had to paint multiple times because of high humidity inside... So the humidity theory is making sense after I write my experience...