why does my psp only work when the faceplate is off?

[tripsalot]

ok heres my problem,i took my psp apart to do the rings of light,got the umd door done,started some music to see the leds blink and all was good.i used the rubber thing from the buttons to make sure i had good connections and all the buttons worked and they do untill i put my faceplate on then the left direction dont work.took it back off and made sure everything was in the right spots and made sure it wasnt the d pad sensor,put the face back on and no left again?

[whitetop]

have you tryed to see if its the screw just behind the psp were youscrew the face back on the one by the d pad it happends to everyone.

or

is you connections clean they mite have a bit of dirt or swet on them

[tripsalot]

i have tried that i took it all apart as far as i had it cleaned every thing and put it back together,still didnt work so i did it again to see if i missed anything then i got it to work some times if you pressed realy hard.

[Nemesis]

make sure you slid the lcd cage to the left into the dpad properly, i dunno how to explain it lol

[tripsalot]

well after a few hours of getting nowhere,i decided it worked before i did the ring of lights so i took the wires for it out and put my lcd cage back and reassembled it now it works but i dont have my ring of lights.i guess it was just me being stupid and not my psp,thanks for the help

[crashman2k7]

your probaly grounding out sumwhere
remember all metal parts in the psp is ground =)

[sprocketme2]

Something you may check is whether the d-pad plastic lached into place against the lcd cage. 2 little tabs on the black plastic part of the dpad have to go into some notches in the LCD cage.