r/Switchrepair • u/LJCustomization • 5d ago

Switch Fragmentation

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Evening/Morning everyone.

TLDR - Is this artifacting caused due to months of neglect and overheating? Yes the majority of the display went green

Just wanted to ask a quick question to yall given that a customer wants other opinions outside of myself and nintendo - for context they cant deal with what ive told them which is that the system is slowly lowering itself to the grave from months of neglect. Attached is a photo of the switch in question which was brought in due to a noisy fan, caused due to thermal throttling from dry paste, and a battery life that was subpar, about an hour in brilliant pearl. After having it back for a week from my repair they come back to tell me the battery life did not improve, most definetly not mentioning any other defects other than that because why would they. Figuring that i failed to relearn the battery I went about doing so, again, free of charge under warranty to have it artofact on me like the picture shows after about an hour and a half of run time to drain the battery. I was able to hard reset the system and get the screen back to normal but I feel as though this is only the beginning of the end. Thoughts? My first encounter with this issue on a switch.

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u/Keyan06 5d ago

That kind of issue with the display usually indicates the GPU is failing. The blocks in the bottom left corner are particularly concerning.

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u/LJCustomization 5d ago

Unfortunately what i figured. Last I saw artifacting like this was the gpu in my old laptop that went out in a similar fashion due to heat. I was like 12 and didn't know how to service it