Originally posted by: cma2032
I know this is kind of a necro-bump, but I have a DS Lite with the same exact issue. I read that there was a piece of plastic inserted in later DS Lite models to keep this from happening, because it was causing pressure to be put on the motherboard and it would bend, causing a short.
Did you figure out a fix or did you just sell it?
I can't speak for the OP as to how this turned out, but having worked as a high level technician doing board level repairs for several years, I can let you know right now that there really isn't any permanent fix for something like this. Once a board has bent or bowed in such a manner that one of the traces shorts (internal or external), there's not really any permanent way to fix it. At best you might be able to find both points at which the offending trace comes to the service and run a jumper wire between those two points, but that would require troubleshooting out which trace it is that's causing the issue. You still wouldn't be able to stop it from shorting, so you'd probably still experience intermittent issues, even with a jumper wire in place. As the OP last stated he was going to, it's probably best to just offer it up for parts at this point.