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So I think I messed up my old Switch V1.

About a month ago I was playing a game and instead of fully powering the console off, I just tapped the power button and left it in sleep mode. Then I completely forgot about it for almost a month.

Now it won’t boot at all. The screen stays completely black no matter what I do.

I plugged it into my PC and it shows up as “NVIDIA APX” in USBTreeView.

What’s weird is the console does seem to take power. I connected it to a decent power bank and it slowly pulls around 3W, so it’s not totally dead. But it never shows the charging icon or boots.

I also tried disconnecting and reconnecting the battery (with no charger connected), but nothing changed. Still just a black screen and APX mode on PC.

USBTreeView info:

• VID 0955 / PID 7321
• NVIDIA APX detected
• Self powered: yes
• Around 32mA demand when idle

At this point I’m starting to think the battery got drained too deeply from sitting in sleep mode for so long, and now the Switch is basically stuck because the battery voltage is too low. Has anyone had this happen before? Is this usually a battery issue, or could something else have failed?

So I think I messed up my old Switch V1.

About a month ago I was playing a game and instead of fully powering the console off, I just tapped the power button and left it in sleep mode. Then I completely forgot about it for almost a month.

Now it won’t boot at all. The screen stays completely black no matter what I do.

I plugged it into my PC and it shows up as “NVIDIA APX” in USBTreeView.

What’s weird is the console does seem to take power. I connected it to a decent power bank and it slowly pulls around 3W, so it’s not totally dead. But it never shows the charging icon or boots.

I also tried disconnecting and reconnecting the battery (with no charger connected), but nothing changed. Still just a black screen and APX mode on PC.

USBTreeView info:

• VID 0955 / PID 7321
• NVIDIA APX detected
• Self powered: yes
• Around 32mA demand when idle

At this point I’m starting to think the battery got drained too deeply from sitting in sleep mode for so long, and now the Switch is basically stuck because the battery voltage is too low. Has anyone had this happen before? Is this usually a battery issue, or could something else have failed?

I tried installing YouTube, and while it installed successfully, I got error 160-2217 when I opened it. I searched for information about it but couldn’t find anything 😞

Use same hard drive + cable that I used to play before region change. Tries game large(>1gb) both failed, nut smaller size one like youtube it install.

Hey everyone, looking for help with my WD My Passport 2TB that refuses to work no matter what I try.

Drive info:

•	Model: WDC WD20NMVW-11EDZS6

•	Serial: WD-WX21EC60UUAV

•	Interface: USB (SATA internally, 5200 RPM)

•	Firmware: 01.01A01

The problem:

Windows sees the drive as “Not Initialized” with the full 1.82 TB showing as unallocated space. No partition table at all.

All tools agree the drive is physically detected and SMART says PASS, but nothing can write a partition table or format it. It just sits there as unallocated RAW.

Any help appreciated. I just want to use this drive for storage, data recovery isn’t a concern since it’s empty.

Hey everyone. Just bought a used Wii U (white 8GB) from someone, already homebrewed, comes with SD card, external HDD + Y cable and some other stuff.

I want to wipe and redo the homebrew setup myself from scratch, but I heard there’s a brick risk if done wrong. Also noticed some Japanese text in parts of the console UI and want it all in English, but again I heard changing it can brick the console too, also if after done there will be problem resync due region lock?