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Very nice

Make sure to give that board a good brush before you power it on for the first time. Some of the dust from trimming is conductive and could cause transient shorts

The thing you destroyed was a filtering capacitor to "clean" the voltage being fed to that side of the NAND chip. It's not essential to boot the system, but it contributes substantially to the reliability and longevity of the NAND chip

That's definitely a normal 6 layer board, you're good to follow the 6 layer trim guide. Nintendo cycled different components throughout the life of the console, so parts like inductors for example can be rounded, squared, or trapezoidal, but they're all functionally the same parts within the...

Yeah you can. The exact numbers will be different, but the proportions are what tell the tale

Amazon and Ebay have several options for triwing screwdrivers. As for the screen, that depends on if you want VGA or not. There are heaps of cheap composite only 3.5" screens, but only a couple of good VGA ones

It would work to identify if the chip is damaged, yeah

Looking at it closely, you have some burnt flux residue around the RGB wiring that could be causing issues. I'd give it a proper clean with some isopropyl alcohol

The lines look fine to me. Just make sure you trim on the outside edge of the lines to give yourself plenty of room to sand (6 layers need more sanding)

AVE chips are drop-in exchangeable among 4 and 6 layer Wiis, but killing them is quite hard. Have you tested your screen with a different VGA source to see if it displays VGA normally?

I'm afraid I don't know how either. Settings Editor GUI lets you change almost everything, but the system clock isn't on its function list

Did you relocate the RTC battery?

If you don't want to destroy the ports: Get a good quality solder sucker, like an Engineer SS-02 Add extra solder to the pins with your iron cranked to at least 380 degrees celsuis Heat the solder blob for a pin thoroughly before going for the bigg succ, making sure the iron remains in contact...