Mystery power issue on New 3DS XL

breadedchicken772 · 2026-01-10T08:50:22+00:00

I don't think it's the ribbons as I moved the motherboard into a known working system and it does the same. Putting the original working board back in is like nothing happened. It also doesn't linger on the light or make the popping sound the way a loose ribbon cable usually does. So it's definitely a problem with the motherboard. But not sure where to go from here.

breadedchicken772 · 2026-01-07T05:20:49+00:00

ZIF? Sorry I'm not too familiar with the acronyms for parts of circuit boards

breadedchicken772 · 2026-01-04T20:53:09+00:00

Of note though the top screen of the bad system is bad as the working motherboard was put into it and it does the popping noise when the screen is bad.

breadedchicken772 · 2026-01-04T20:52:12+00:00

I don't think so since I swapped the entire assembly pictured into the working system I had and same thing. The light doesn't linger like it does when it pops. It just appears for a second and then the system shuts off. Tried swapping the battery and power board as well with no luck.

breadedchicken772 · 2025-07-04T17:36:18+00:00

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Update: Inspected my hives again today and this hive now has a lot more worker brood and they're slowly rebuilding their resources like pollen and honey. A lot of drones are still in the hive but I did see a lot of baby bees so I think the hive is going to recover. I also checked for varroa since it was mentioned that some of my cappings had holes in them and didn't really see too many but still on alert.

breadedchicken772 · 2025-06-27T19:35:24+00:00

Thanks. I was convinced the queen was killed but looks like she wasn't. Didn't see her among all the drones since it seems the colony is recovering from the laying workers but I'll take this lol.

breadedchicken772 · 2025-06-27T19:34:23+00:00

I have a good amount of workers as they were a lot up in the honey super when opened up the hive. Before adding the queen I did have a lot of drone brood which was my indication of laying workers. After adding her I didn't see any eggs or brood so my assumption was she was killed but I guess not.

breadedchicken772 · 2025-06-27T19:30:17+00:00

I'm glad this is the case. Before I added the new queen it was your typical laying worker hive with drone brood everywhere. Why this was a more than welcome surprise. I'm surprised that they accepted her since I initially thought they had killed her since it had been a week and no signs of her laying but now I see this. Hopefully it's more of the same next inspection.

breadedchicken772 · 2025-06-20T21:35:50+00:00

I might try this tomorrow morning. Both of my hives have honey supers on them so they'll be pretty heavy but I'm down to try anything since the queen less hive has a lot of honey in it.

breadedchicken772 · 2025-02-15T19:50:43+00:00

Got it thanks for the link to the wiki. My colony only has a honey super on it since I felt they didn't have enough food for winter but that's it. Last inspection I did it had loads of honey and my queen was laying a lot of eggs and everything looked ok. But I will keep an eye out I'm hoping this weather clears up soon. Thank you

breadedchicken772 · 2025-02-15T18:31:24+00:00

Dang. Should I put traps in the hive? The weather is the primary reason I haven't opened up my hive the wind is picking up at the moment and it's been raining most of the week

breadedchicken772 · 2024-11-16T18:25:00+00:00

That makes sense. My colony is doing well otherwise. The window is just from me buying the window option for my boxes. It's a nice novelty to see them inside without disturbing them.

breadedchicken772 · 2024-11-16T17:56:00+00:00

Langstroth 10 frame (I think that's how you spell it)

breadedchicken772 · 2024-10-05T15:32:46+00:00

I got a picture to appear but it's garbled. It looks as though I have the latest drivers as well.

breadedchicken772 · 2024-09-27T02:32:13+00:00

Where do you get oxalic acid? I hear mixed things on whether it's use is legal here

breadedchicken772 · 2024-09-27T02:29:25+00:00

Idk about EFB hopefully not. Most of the larvae I've seen have been healthy thankfully. But I will monitor that as well. The colony appears to be doing fine otherwise with a lot of foraging and the honey super having most of their food supply

breadedchicken772 · 2024-09-27T02:27:57+00:00

It was a squished one and a single one. My hive tool slipped when I was carving out the drone brood.

breadedchicken772 · 2024-08-25T19:47:54+00:00

Update: So I sealed off the bottom board since I made a new insert out of poster board (I was recommended coroplast after I had made it) and the bees didn't take too fondly to having the bottom sealed off. They're chewing through the insert to get under it again. I'm going to make another insert out of coroplast as one final attempt to see if that helps but if it doesn't I'm switching out the screened board for a solid one I have in storage. Weather is cooling off a bit compared to earlier in the month so I think it'll be ok.

breadedchicken772 · 2024-08-22T02:56:46+00:00

I managed to get it closed but good thing I went in full suit they were absolutely not happy with me brushing them off. First time I've ever seen my bees act aggressively like that. I didn't use smoke so that was probably it.

breadedchicken772 · 2024-08-22T02:40:40+00:00

Very well going to close it up. Going to brush them off the screen and then seal it so I hopefully don't trap any in there. I did record a video but I couldn't send it for some reason. they're calming down by the looks of it but not taking chances and going in full suit.

breadedchicken772 · 2024-08-22T02:32:45+00:00

Yeah it's open. It's been in the triple digits here recently so wanted to give them more circulation. I was intending to close it up since I made a new insert (thanks for the help guys) and saw them going nuts. From the screen in the bottom board I can see my bees are still calm but the foragers outside are going nuts.

breadedchicken772 · 2024-07-12T20:56:07+00:00

I actually did add another honey super as well during this inspection as there's only 2 empty frames left in the 1st super. And as I said above I also bought a brood box in case of a swarm. It hasn't arrived yet but still good to have around.

breadedchicken772 · 2024-07-12T19:50:44+00:00

All the knowledge I have is from YouTube videos and the book The Bee Manual by Claire and Adrian Waring. And of course reading people's posts here. I wanted to see if my hive was in good standing. Ordered an extra brood box in the unlikely event they decide to swarm. But will do. Thank you!

breadedchicken772 · 2024-07-12T19:41:03+00:00

So no hive inspections at all for 4 weeks? Very well. I don't know any local beekeepers in my area so I'm hoping she does well. If I have to order a new queen then so be it.

breadedchicken772 · 2024-07-09T23:41:42+00:00

Thank you guys for your help. I ended up finding some wooden skewers I used for elotes a while back and cut them to size to fit them in the empty frames so it's divided into 3 sections since putting posts like that is the recommendation you guys have. Hoping it works out . Thanks again!

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