Nintendo DS Lite randomly freezes!

[retroborg]

Good day!

I have a Nintendo DS Lite that randomly freezes while playing it and pressing buttons and you need to restart it. It can even happen right away upon starting the console and pressing some buttons, so I don’t think it’s a matter of over-heating, but rather the button press on the PCB! I opened it up and visually I don’t see anything wrong, cracked, broken or burnt on the PCB and I also tried a different battery. What could be the cause and how could I fix it?

Thanks in advance!

 

[TerryLaze]

Clean the buttons and everything the buttons touches, it could be that some button gets stuck and causes the OS to not know what to do.

Other than that it could be some micro fracture or a bad solder joint, in general something not easily spotted by an untrained eye and without a lot of magnification.