My wii doesn't work anymore....

[OverLade]

So the basic story of my wii is.

One day in the past I hacked my wii with Ocarina, but that gave it issues at startup. Sometimes nothing would come up when I turned it on. I had to reset it until I got the normal black screen with text. This was inconvenient, but I figured it would just be extra work, what could I do?

Eventually this problem got annoying enough for me to simply delete ocarina off my Wii. The problem persisted for several months however, concerning the startup of my wii. Then, while on christmas break, my little cousin knocked my wii off a table the day before we left. So while the wii would still turn on, it now lost its ability to play GC games.

Yeah, this sucks, but luckily I still have my handy dandy GC to do that.

So texture hacks come out. "osnap, I want to hack my wii again and get some of these". So I hack my wii with some other method since I had 4.0 and get homebrew/Gecko OS. Everything is fine, though I'm still having the startup problem, but I'm used to that.

But one day, "weird ish" starts happening. My wii ocasionally crashes while looking at memory or on the internet channel. Yesterday, my Wii internet channel began freezing on startup. I tried redownloading it. It only got worse and began freezing from the menu screen. So I say, screw it, I'm gonna delete homebrew and get rid of this mess. While going to the SD card to delete homebrew, my wii freezes. I reset it, in attempt to try again and get rid of this thing.

Now I get the opening black screen every time....but after that it won't even make it to the wii menu.

I can't say whether the physical damage to my wii caused this, but to say the least this sucks.....

Anyone have any ideas or tips that might help?

 

[cookieM0Nster]

This should not happen at all, if you get hacks on your Wii.
I have NO IDEA how that stuff happened.

 

[Isatis]

It was the physical damage, mostly likely to your DVD drive, which is interfering with how your Wii is working.

I'd rather you not post this stuff here since this is not the right place to do so...try some place like GBATemp, they'll help.

 

[professor mgw]

DON'T EVER HACK YOUR Wii!
There's ALWAYS a chance something may go wrong. Buy a new wii.

 

[OverLade]

I'm not trying to encouarge people not to hack their wiis, I believe it had to do with the physical damage because all my friends have hacked wii's and they haven't had issues.

But if anyone has some answers, please help me out lol.

 

[Isatis]

It's not related to homebrew in any way whatsoever, I swear that from my experience when I had a Wii that accidentally fell there were weird things happening w/ my System Menu (even before homebrew) and the fan would stop working and the DVD would stop reading too.

(Fixed now, though)

So, yeah, like I said, just ask around on other forums too why your wii is doing this, and maybe you'll get an answer and a fix.

 

[*JuriHan*]

So the basic story of my wii is.

One day in the past I hacked my wii with Ocarina, but that gave it issues at startup. Sometimes nothing would come up when I turned it on. I had to reset it until I got the normal black screen with text. This was inconvenient, but I figured it would just be extra work, what could I do?

Eventually this problem got annoying enough for me to simply delete ocarina off my Wii. The problem persisted for several months however, concerning the startup of my wii. Then, while on christmas break, my little cousin knocked my wii off a table the day before we left. So while the wii would still turn on, it now lost its ability to play GC games.

Yeah, this sucks, but luckily I still have my handy dandy GC to do that.

So texture hacks come out. "osnap, I want to hack my wii again and get some of these". So I hack my wii with some other method since I had 4.0 and get homebrew/Gecko OS. Everything is fine, though I'm still having the startup problem, but I'm used to that.

But one day, "weird ish" starts happening. My wii ocasionally crashes while looking at memory or on the internet channel. Yesterday, my Wii internet channel began freezing on startup. I tried redownloading it. It only got worse and began freezing from the menu screen. So I say, screw it, I'm gonna delete homebrew and get rid of this mess. While going to the SD card to delete homebrew, my wii freezes. I reset it, in attempt to try again and get rid of this thing.

Now I get the opening black screen every time....but after that it won't even make it to the wii menu.

I can't say whether the physical damage to my wii caused this, but to say the least this sucks.....

Anyone have any ideas or tips that might help?

It's probably because you dropped your Wii. I have homebrew too with texture hacks and it works fine. I dropped my Wii too and I think I broke the internal fan and now it can only play for around 45 mins before overheating. It is so messed up, it will overheat even on standby mode so I have to turn all the power off. If you like I can link you to the website where you can send it in to Nintendo for repairs. It's going to cost me $75. :/

 

[OverLade]

It's probably because you dropped your Wii. I have homebrew too with texture hacks and it works fine. I dropped my Wii too and I think I broke the internal fan and now it can only play for around 45 mins before overheating. It is so messed up, it will overheat even on standby mode so I have to turn all the power off. If you like I can link you to the website where you can send it in to Nintendo for repairs. It's going to cost me $75. :/

This was my initial problem.

But now it's just REALLY jacked up.

 

[*JuriHan*]

This was my initial problem.

But now it's just REALLY jacked up.

It's probably physical damage to the internal components of the Wii. This is the link for dealing with it:

http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/wii/en_na/ts/physicalDamage.jsp#other

 

[Revven]

DON'T EVER HACK YOUR Wii!
There's ALWAYS a chance something may go wrong. Buy a new wii.

LOLNO.

Softmodding your Wii cannot do any physical damage to your Wii in any way. Anything that happens outside of the HBC is your own fault. If you drop your Wii and have HBC on it, don't blame it on the softmod, it clearly was because you dropped it. I have a friend who dropped his Wii several times because people kept pulling on the cords when playing Brawl and for every game it makes loud disc loading noises. I even experienced disc drive errors with my Wii but it wasn't because I dropped it because I never had. My disc drive was just going, and I got it fixed and now everything is fine.

Homebrew can never cause this unless you seriously start messing with your Wii with what the HBC is capable of. I don't recommend doing any of that unless you back up your NAND beforehand with BootMii.

 

[illinialex24]

Yeah, Team Twiizer's is good, its 100% safe to install HBC on your Wii, as well as 100% legal because all the reverse engineering was their own code.

 

[CountKaiser]

You dropped your Wii? Yeah, that'll do it.

I dropped mine, and it now ha problems reading discs.

Thank God for USB Loader. :D

 

[illinialex24]

I had coffee spilled in it (person playing NoJ ) but it still works fine.

 

[Shell]

I have been running hacks since the old Melee AD code came out last year. Nothing to report here. You dropped your Wii (and improperly hacked it) -- it's impossible to say what did it in after that, but it's pretty obvious that's were your problems are really stemming from.

The only thing you can do is clear the HBC and send it in to Nintendo.

 

[DDM]

So the basic story of my wii is.

One day in the past I hacked my wii with Ocarina, but that gave it issues at startup. Sometimes nothing would come up when I turned it on. I had to reset it until I got the normal black screen with text. This was inconvenient, but I figured it would just be extra work, what could I do?

Eventually this problem got annoying enough for me to simply delete ocarina off my Wii. The problem persisted for several months however, concerning the startup of my wii. Then, while on christmas break, my little cousin knocked my wii off a table the day before we left. So while the wii would still turn on, it now lost its ability to play GC games.

Yeah, this sucks, but luckily I still have my handy dandy GC to do that.

So texture hacks come out. "osnap, I want to hack my wii again and get some of these". So I hack my wii with some other method since I had 4.0 and get homebrew/Gecko OS. Everything is fine, though I'm still having the startup problem, but I'm used to that.

But one day, "weird ish" starts happening. My wii ocasionally crashes while looking at memory or on the internet channel. Yesterday, my Wii internet channel began freezing on startup. I tried redownloading it. It only got worse and began freezing from the menu screen. So I say, screw it, I'm gonna delete homebrew and get rid of this mess. While going to the SD card to delete homebrew, my wii freezes. I reset it, in attempt to try again and get rid of this thing.

Now I get the opening black screen every time....but after that it won't even make it to the wii menu.

I can't say whether the physical damage to my wii caused this, but to say the least this sucks.....

Anyone have any ideas or tips that might help?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI6XirNa9T8

 

[kupo15]

It's probably because you dropped your Wii. I have homebrew too with texture hacks and it works fine. I dropped my Wii too and I think I broke the internal fan and now it can only play for around 45 mins before overheating. It is so messed up, it will overheat even on standby mode so I have to turn all the power off. If you like I can link you to the website where you can send it in to Nintendo for repairs. It's going to cost me $75. :/

If you have an external cool pad like for your laptop or something, that might be a way to fix the overheating problem if you don't want to spend a lot to have it fixed. Hopefully it will work with the USB ports in the back

(Or you can send it in through the brawl repair service for free. My friend broke his loading slot because it fell and got it fixed for free because "brawl" broke it.)

 

[Shadic]

DON'T EVER HACK YOUR Wii! There's ALWAYS a chance something may go wrong. Buy a new wii.

Ignorance, go elsewhere.

The damage appears to have been physical, likely from overheating. If you had BootMii, you could have tried to wipe your entire Wii and fix everything, but you don't.. And with the overheating problems, I doubt even BootMii would work.

 

[OverLade]

Well I'll leave my Wii for a week or so and see if the problem goes away (that actually temporarily got rid of the overheating problem until I rehacked it). Otherwise I'll work with what you guys posted.

 

[CRASHiC]

Poor some peroxide down the disc loader.
Works every time

Spoiler

DON"T EVER DO THIS

 

[demonictoonlink]

Hacking doesn't hurt it. Dropping it does. /thread

 

[lcampoy8]

The wii is so crappy, just tapping it over once can break it >_>. All the older nindendo systems were pretty good. I remember my mom grabbed my GC and smashed it to the ground and it still worked and I remember dropping my gameboy color in the toilet (lol) and it still worked. The wii sux...

 

[Garquille14]

My Wii takes a few seconds turning on before the standard beginning text comes up. I don't know if that's bad. I couldn't get the BootMii thing to work either.

DON'T EVER HACK YOUR Wii!
There's ALWAYS a chance something may go wrong. Buy a new wii.

Nice board to say that on. <_<

 

[Revven]

My Wii takes a few seconds turning on before the standard beginning text comes up. I don't know if that's bad. I couldn't get the BootMii thing to work either.

If you tried installing BootMii, and it did say it installed, the reason it might take longer to boot is because it's looking for the BootMii SD Card files... and as result, doesn't find them (and the Wii disc slot blinks when this occurs). And then it'll start up like normal (just take a few seconds more).

 

[Wingflier]

I remember my mom grabbed my GC and smashed it to the ground and it still worked

I would kill that BlTCH.

 

[OverLade]

I won a tournament today and got 200$. That'll go toward fixing my wii. =D

 

[Garquille14]

If you tried installing BootMii, and it did say it installed, the reason it might take longer to boot is because it's looking for the BootMii SD Card files... and as result, doesn't find them (and the Wii disc slot blinks when this occurs). And then it'll start up like normal (just take a few seconds more).

I see. I'll fix that right up then, thanks.

 

[chaoslink20]

The wii is so crappy, just tapping it over once can break it >_>. All the older nindendo systems were pretty good. I remember my mom grabbed my GC and smashed it to the ground and it still worked and I remember dropping my gameboy color in the toilet (lol) and it still worked. The wii sux...

LOLOL. Lucky much?

I won a tournament today and got 200$. That'll go toward fixing my wii. =D

I'm glad to hear about that =). I bet you're going to use the rest of the money on a game or something =D

 

[Ochobobo]

My Internet Channel would freeze every so often before I ever even got Homebrew. I doubt your hacks had much to do with that channel freezing.

 

[kingcobra9]

i hate the noises my wii makes

 

[zephyrnereus]

ever since my friend dropped my wii I cant use Wario or Toon Link in Brawl...It also seems that the disc was damaged as well, seeing as I've put other copies of brawl in my wii as well as putting my disc in other wiis with no success... I use a CSS that removes them both ever since...

 

[chaoslink20]

ever since my friend dropped my wii I cant use Wario or Toon Link in Brawl...It also seems that the disc was damaged as well, seeing as I've put other copies of brawl in my wii as well as putting my disc in other wiis with no success... I use a CSS that removes them both ever since...

That really is sad...

 

[UltiMario]

You must've simply done something wrong in the origonal Ocarina installation.
All in all, thats why your Wii has the functionality of a brick. Go buy a new one, it's not like they're expensive compared to the other consoles.

 

[kupo15]

You must've simply done something wrong in the origonal Ocarina installation.
All in all, thats why your Wii has the functionality of a brick. Go buy a new one, it's not like they're expensive compared to the other consoles.

Have nintendo replace it for free. That sounds better than to buy another piece of junk like the wii

 

[OverLade]

You must've simply done something wrong in the origonal Ocarina installation.
All in all, thats why your Wii has the functionality of a brick. Go buy a new one, it's not like they're expensive compared to the other consoles.

Yeah we all have spare money to throw around and buy new wiis.....

Luckily I gots barwl skills n tourney munay.

Have nintendo replace it for free. That sounds better than to buy another piece of junk like the wii

If your wii is damaged due to hacking I dont think they'll fix it.

 

[Revven]

If your wii is damaged due to hacking I dont think they'll fix it.

It's not due to hacking. Plus, you can HIDE the HBC on the last page of your Wii. You don't even need to delete it (that's what I did).

 

[Problem2]

It's worth trying to send it in. Worst case scenario, they don't fix it and just send it back. What do you have to lose?

 

[OverLade]

It's not due to hacking. Plus, you can HIDE the HBC on the last page of your Wii. You don't even need to delete it (that's what I did).

My wii's menu wont even come up. I'd do that otherwise.

It's worth trying to send it in. Worst case scenario, they don't fix it and just send it back. What do you have to lose?

True I might go for that.

 

[Revven]

My wii's menu wont even come up. I'd do that otherwise.

Have you tried unplugging it from the plug for a few minutes to an hour? Usually that means your Wii is overheating and you need to unplug it for awhile and then plug it back in.

 

[professor mgw]

It looks like you'll just have to buy a new wii.

 

[OverLade]

Have you tried unplugging it from the plug for a few minutes to an hour? Usually that means your Wii is overheating and you need to unplug it for awhile and then plug it back in.

Yeah that was the problem BEFORE it actually broke. I did that all the time and it worked fine. I think the fan is broken, but now something else is broken to the point where the menu screen wont come up. I tried leaving it unplugged for 2 days, so I know it's permanent damage.