I can get things going without the blue screen of death, it's just a mystery connecting to games. WiiRD_GUI can't connect, just connects forever. Gecko.NET eventually gives up asking to retry.
If it helps I'm trying to use Wiiloader since that allows backups to be run with Gecko I guess, but it's a mystery to run. All the same settings with a few more, plus the option to instead of just boot the disk to instead go to homebrew or use the "rebooter". It's got to be that part that I'm messing up. I already sold my whopping 4 games and have just the backups, but I still have all 20 of my gamecube games. Trying to figure out where to go from here. I assumed Wiiloader would just read my backups and I could go from there, but it seems I need to use the "homebrew channel" or "rebooter" choice to get to other homebrew to run the backups, and that has to be causing the issue. All I have is configurable USB loader which works fine, but no amount of choices ever gets it working or I somehow end up with BSoD.