Hacking Wii black screen even after Bootmii NAND format

[fledge68]

Bootmii starts fine with it removed. MMM, I'm not sure, I would have to clear bootmii out of my sd card and use those files instead and try.

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It looks like MMM does not start without it.

Bootmii cant boot hbc because you erased the hbc when you formatted. You need some way to get bootmii to launch an app to download and install missing ios or even reinstall hbc

 

[Biovirulent]

Bootmii cant boot hbc because you erased the hbc when you formatted. You need some way to get bootmii to launch an app to download and install missing ios or even reinstall hbc

I believe I reinstalled the HBC with MMM, but still couldn't launch. Maybe I'm wrong. Thank you, though! I'll try that out later tonight.

 

[siene]

Oh boy.. well, it looks like this wii might be done for.

Anyhow, suddenly, yesterday, my Wii decided to stop booting up.
It turns on, but the screen is black and there's no sound.

I managed to format my sd card and then boot up bootmii, backup the nand (although it might be bricked...) and then format it.

I still get the black screen.

I looked through ribbon cables and everything should be in working order. I don't know what to do from here.

oh no

 

[Biovirulent]

I got the homebrew launcher to work. Now what? How do I get my system menu back?

 

[GreyWolf]

I got the homebrew launcher to work. Now what? How do I get my system menu back?

You'll probably need to use something like Dop-Mii to reinstall the system menu and related IOSes.

 

[Biovirulent]

You'll probably need to use something like Dop-Mii to reinstall the system menu and related IOSes.

All right, I'll go get that. Thank you all for your help! This brick is a pain....

 

[Biovirulent]

Just installed 4.3US, still got a black screen. Has to be wifi module, right?

 

[fledge68]

so since you can run the HBC can have it run syscheck hacksden edition? and then paste the results here. that way we can see what ios you have installed.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/syscheck-hacksden-edition.356133/

 

[GreyWolf]

Just installed 4.3US, still got a black screen. Has to be wifi module, right?

Not necessarily. I compiled a copy of the open source release of the Homebrew channel. See if you can get it to run from BootMii. It's just a dol file so you don't have to install it. If it runs the HBC should try to connect if the network config is still there somewhere.

 

[Biovirulent]

Not necessarily. I compiled a copy of the open source release of the Homebrew channel. See if you can get it to run from BootMii. It's just a dol file so you don't have to install it. If it runs the HBC should try to connect if the network config is still there somewhere.

Oh, no, thank you! but I did get HBC to run from BootMii! It's just the system menu that gives a black screen.

 

[GreyWolf]

Oh, no, thank you! but I did get HBC to run from BootMii! It's just the system menu that gives a black screen.

If the Wifi icon on the HBC channel lights up then it connected successfully and it's not the module.

 

[Biovirulent]

If the Wifi icon on the HBC channel lights up then it connected successfully and it's not the module.

Yup, it shows it's working. But... if that's the case, why am I getting a black screen?

 

[GreyWolf]

Yup, it shows it's working. But... if that's the case, why am I getting a black screen?

Hm... dunno. Maybe try the syscheck. Does the remote at least turn the console on? If you didn't change anything on the NAND when it died it's kinda looking like a hardware failure. No boot is generally either a menu brick or failure in the hardware initialization - DVD, BT, Wifi or even the first part of the NAND going bad.

You can try going through the boot process and brick pages on WiiBrew and see if they help any.

 

[Biovirulent]

Hm... dunno. Maybe try the syscheck. Does the remote at least turn the console on? If you didn't change anything on the NAND when it died it's kinda looking like a hardware failure. No boot is generally either a menu brick or failure in the hardware initialization - DVD, BT, Wifi or even the first part of the NAND going bad.

You can try going through the boot process and brick pages on WiiBrew and see if they help any.

Might be boot1 but I still don't know. I did a syscheck and nothing happened.

No, the remote is no longer synced to the console and seems to not be able to.

I guess it's done for?

 

[ScarletDreamz]

Ok... let see, fill me up, whats your current status on this issue?

 

[Biovirulent]

Ok... let see, fill me up, whats your current status on this issue?

Wii gets a black screen on system menu boot up. Homebrew channel runs from bootmii.
It's not the wifi module. Might be boot1.
That's all I got.

 

[ScarletDreamz]

You can get to Homebrew channel, if yes, there are PLENTY of solutions lol.

 

[Biovirulent]

You can get to Homebrew channel, if yes, there are PLENTY of solutions lol.

I've tried many solutions. I've tried MMM, I've tried nand restore... I don't have a backup from before the "brick" or black screen.
I've even tried nand factory restore by restoring a nand with nothing on it. I've tried dopmii.
Nothing fixes my problem.

 

[ScarletDreamz]

Try reinstalling the System Menu. if thats the corrupted one, then it is, as it does not sound as a banner brick.

 

[VashTS]

i had this happen once when i took apart a wii and reassembled. it did not have bootmii in boot2, but did have priiloader and i was able to get to that.

anyway - the solution was to download the entire set of IOS and system menu files and reinstall from a wad manager. Modmii can download this for you. If that doesn't work then you have hardware failure somewhere as the software would be 100% correct and ready to run.

i think BT module failure results in perma-black screen with no access to anything but its been a while since i heard anything about BT module failing.