Hacking Switch displaying blue screen, hekate won't boot when injected but other loaders can. What now?

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So my switch started having visual glitches and constant freezing and then finally came the bsod, ive tried getting hekate to boot and the screen just stays black, no output.
I think its just a nand corruption and i need to rebuild the nand to get it working again but since hekate cannot boot, i cannot fix the nand.

Any solution?
 

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The glitches you are talking about, indicate some hardware problem.
Someone posted a video where he pushed down the memory chips and then the Switch was running stable.
Once he released the pressure, it started glitching again.
Maybe this is also your problem.

If you think it's your NAND, first check if you can get Hekate running.
Can you inject something like lockpick_rcm to see if that works?
Lockpick does not depend on anything like the nand or the SD card for booting up.
With that you can also check if you can write files to your SD card.
If that is all working, then Hekate should also be working.
If you can't Hekate running, then there might be some other issue.

There was an article somewhere here about how to rebuild a Switch with a completely messed up NAND with another Switch as a donor.
 

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So my switch started having visual glitches and constant freezing and then finally came the bsod, ive tried getting hekate to boot and the screen just stays black, no output.
I think its just a nand corruption and i need to rebuild the nand to get it working again but since hekate cannot boot, i cannot fix the nand.

Any solution?
Do you have not have a backup of your eMMC?
 

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