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I (as a very careless and innocent person) opened up my steam deck with the SD card still inside it. Then when I opened the back, the SD card broke in half and stayed stuck inside the SD card slot. I I tried pushing it out using the mechanism that the SD card slot has, but it doesn’t seem to work with either the other half of the SD card to push or anything I try to push it with. I looked at the teardown to see if I could open up the SD card slot to get the broken part out somehow, but the SD card slot is soldered to the motherboard, meaning I cannot get in easily. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might get it out? I do not want to make a motherboard replacement unless it’s the only solution… Thanks in advance.
Hi This may be quite hard but we will get there! The first thing I would try is get some fine tip tweezers and try and pull what’s left of it while inflicting minimal damage You could replace the SD car reader but that requires soldering but it’s not something we want to do As a last resort you could try a small amount of super glue to clue the card back together so you might be able to get it out but we leave that as a last resort as if too much glue is applied it could get stuck Hopefully this helps Any questions please ask Thanks:-)
Alternatively, you can look at how a Micro-SD slot works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsFHOxYT… then you can make sure the little lever there is in the correct postion and push the card out using a pointy tool (carful to stick it into the card, not the deck ;) ) at the little gap in the top left corner
