Fully Bricked Wii, I think. Tried Almost Everything.

mugen812 · 10-12-2009, 09:34 AM

So this was my second time installing a Wiikey 2 and everything seemed to be going fine. The Wii I installed it on had 3.3u on it and I installed Homebrew Channel on it using the twilight hack. That worked. I know the chip was installed properly because I used my backup of twilight princess to do the hack. My next step was to install/update to 4.0 using the method I found here:

We Hack Wii / News - System Menu v4

I followed all of the steps there and everything installed just fine. Finally, I went to install the Opera .wad using WadManager and that's when things went wrong. The screen went blank and I had to do a hard shut down. So now when I boot up the Wii, I hear a the motor of the disc drive and then that's it. I don't get the health warning or anything except a black screen. I've tried the savemiifrii method and that doesn't work (the gamecube controller does work because I tried it on my other modded wii and it brought up the version and region in the corner). I know I made a careless mistake of not installing bootmii, but I was wondering if there is anything else I can do? Would a new motherboard work or is there any other way to salvage this one? Any help would be appreciated thanks!

Tealc · 10-12-2009, 09:47 AM

It's unusual for a full brick to be caused by a opera.wad. I can't help thinking that this was renamed from something a little more like a System menu wad or something.

Have you checked that the Wiimote can power on the Wii?

Without bootmii or preloader and a non functioning savemiifrii your options are limited to hardware changes or Nintendo repair.

mugen812 · 10-12-2009, 10:07 AM

Yes, I was able to start the wii with the wiimote. By hardware change, could I just buy another D2C motherboard and install it? Would that fix the problem. They are going for like 30$ online and i figured that would be cheaper than the 75$+ shipping sending it to Nintendo.

Tealc · 10-12-2009, 10:12 AM

I'm afraid swapping out Wii hardware isn't my strong point. 30 dollars sounds a bit cheap though.

mugen812 · 10-12-2009, 10:16 AM

I would probably be buying this.

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I would just need to know if that would clear out all of the system files. I'm not sure where they are stored on the wii.

Tealc · 10-12-2009, 10:25 AM

This is not the Wii mainboard. The part you linked is the DVD control board. I saw a mainboard on sale for over 100 dollars on eBay a few minutes ago.

The mainboard has an aluminium heatsink on it and you can make out the USB, GC and SD quite easily.

mugen812 · 10-12-2009, 11:02 AM

Oh I see...one last hail mary question then. I already have a modded wii up and running w/wiikey 2. Is there any sort of ideas in terms of swapping any hardware temporary to get this bricked one up and running? And if I do ship it to nintendo, I know I have to take out the mod chip, but will they say anything about the homebrew channel being on there?

mstrkrft69 · 10-13-2009, 07:43 AM

Hi, I have a problem you mentioned, I installed the wrong system menu and now my wii is fully bricked, I have no video signal but my wii is on. Could you please help me?

tbe0dip · 10-19-2009, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by mstrkrft69

Hi, I have a problem you mentioned, I installed the wrong system menu and now my wii is fully bricked, I have no video signal but my wii is on. Could you please help me?

I have same problems, I installed wronog system menu and get fully bricked, I bought Savemii but no luck so I went to couple repair shop in Canada, no one fixed it, every one said its NAND have to send it to Nintendo to repair it.

can some one help me?

I really appreciate it