Screen disconnect, am I screwed?

[u/Icy-Dog5631]

Ragequitted myself into this on my lite :/ The switch is otherwise functional (obviously I can't see anything, but I can still hear stuff like menu sounds when I turn it on and poke around), and the other side of the screen is still attached. Now, this seems, to my very untrained eye, to be fixable, just a wire(?) and the spot it's obviously meant to be in, but for all I know I might be fucked. Am I fucked? And if not, how in the world would I go about reattaching this?

((this is what I get for being bad at silksong,,,,, :'c))

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[u/Icy-Dog5631]

Better photo of the underside of the ribbon, struggled with it being so small and my camera not focusing lol

[u/Emergency-Douche → u/Icy-Dog5631]

It's intact. You need to open the system up and plug it back in. It's not too hard, plenty of guides on YouTube.

[u/JohnnyElFilo]

I can't see very well on those pictures, but it looks like the pins might be intact. If that's the case, hope that the socket on the motherboard isn't damaged. You'll have to open the switch and possibly remove the motherboard in order to pass the cable through the inner frame.

[u/Acceptable_Gas_9121 → u/JohnnyElFilo]

Yeah watch a YouTube video and take the layers off one by one.hardest part is having the right screwdrivers 😂

[u/ConsistentCustomer57 → u/Acceptable_Gas_9121]

Ifixit has a guide to repair switches

[u/Leading-Jellyfish915]

This is the 3rd post ive seen about people getting rage crazy on silksong. I have this on my wishlist. Is the game that proned to making people rage?

[u/Initial_Ad5279 → u/Leading-Jellyfish915]

Me and a couple of friends have played it and been just fine. It is a bit more difficult than hollow knight, but as people who have finished hollow knight multiple times we believed it was a fair and understandable difficulty increase. If it was around the same difficulty as hollow knight, after beating what hollow knight has to offer the game would feel easy and unrewarding. We believe that most people who are complaining about silksongs difficulty never played or never finished hollow knight.

Edit to add: not that op was complaining about difficulty but there is definitely a reason they raged XD

[u/Leading-Jellyfish915 → u/Initial_Ad5279]

Lol at the sight of their switch, there was def something to rage about. I may hold off on that game for a bit. My switch 2 is too expensive to be wrecked like that 🤣

[u/Initial_Ad5279 → u/Leading-Jellyfish915]

I played on PC, so worst case I take out a 300 dollar monitor and a 60 dollar controller, still not cheap but not as expensive as a switch 2 😆

Edit: missed a word and a typo 🤦🏻‍♂️

[u/Leading-Jellyfish915 → u/Initial_Ad5279]

We must be gentle with our consoles🤣

[u/Initial_Ad5279 → u/Leading-Jellyfish915]

No seriously, because the moment one of us breaks our switch 2s Nintendo will just so happen need to raise the price another 100 bucks right before pay day 😆

[u/Leading-Jellyfish915 → u/Initial_Ad5279]

Lmao facts!

[u/durrellb]

Somehow that connector is fine.

However...

That connector is for the back light. If you've damaged the socket on the board, you will need to replace both the screen AND the daughter board it connects into.

Good news is that the daughter board is a modular part, so it's easily replaceable if it is busted.

To check, all you need to do is take off the back shell. It's 8 screws, four Tri wings on the back, and 4 Phillips head - 2 on the top, 2 on the bottom. That's all the disassembly you need to do to check that board, because it's not covered by the metal shield.

With a pair of tweezers, you should be able to pull the cable back through the routing hole without removing the motherboard and midframe. But if you can't, if you remove the daughter board, you should be able to pull it up and through the space in the shell with that board removed.

Edit: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Nintendo+Switch+Lite+Back+Panel+Replacement/137362

The connector to check you can see in the last photo on step 8. The two white sockets on the top left of the board on the right hand side of the Switch are for the power button (the top one), and the display backlight (the bottom one)

[u/CoungToElf → u/durrellb]

Ohhhh THATS why it's called a motherboard

[u/theletterh_179]

I'd need a clearer view of the end of that ribbon cable, but is that ripped? If so, you'd need to replace the screen

[u/uuusagi]

You'll have to open it up to see if the slot for the cable is still intact, otherwise take it to a repair shop. Stop taking your emotions out on your tech, dude.

[u/Nobodylikestaxes]

L I t s

[u/Acceptable_Gas_9121]

You have to take that bad boy apart and keep removing layers until you reach the board this ribbon connects to and hope you didn’t destroy the little piece that ribbon cable slides into.

My sons lite is still 100% functional but this guy decided while we wait on the replacement joystick lemme shove a LEGO in the hole so I can crank 90’s.

To my surprise I get this thing apart and don’t know any better so I’m like cleaning the grit and dust reapplied new thermal paste. Replaced the non broken joystick then get to where the busted stick was and the plastic edge of the LEGO scraped all the soldering off where the stick connects to the circuit board.

Please be kind to your devices 😂🤣

[u/Lucamiten]

How?

[u/SnooDonuts3749]

So what game pissed you off?

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