Hardware Wii Can't Read Discs

[sjones900]

I bought a wii second hand from someone for like 20 bucks, but the thing is that it can't read any games. I've opened it up and cleaned the laser lense with isopropyl alcohol and a cotton q-tip, but that didn't quite fix the problem. Is it dead? Or maybe requires some further care? The DVD drive does seem a lot louder than others. Like when you first power on the wii and churns if there's no disc, it's quite pronounced in this wii. If anyone can give me any advice it would be greatly appreciated.

 

[JoostinOnline]

Does it give a disc read error? Are you able to browse a disc from WiiXplorer?

 

[sjones900]

If I put a regular game in and wait for it to load, it blacks out and says "an error has occurred, please eject the disc and power off the console. Refer to the manual for details." But after observing more closely with the case off. It appears the laser fixture does not move at all. It can read, but the laser cannot move to scan the rest of the disc.

 

[JoostinOnline]

What about WiiXplorer.

 

[sjones900]

I can't get it to browse the dvd. I typed dvd:/ and wiidisk:/ but the drive doesn't spin up. I don't know if it's apart of the problem or an error on my part.

 

[JoostinOnline]

Well if WiiXplorer doesn't read discs and they aren't scratched (they aren't, are they?), I'd say you need a new disc drive. However, I suggest you wait for other people to respond first, since I may be missing something. The past 24 hours have been very stressful.

 

[sjones900]

Well I realized that wiixplorer wasn't mounting the disc because of missing ios' but that didn't really help me solve the problem. Now that I'm able to attempt to mount it obviously fails. It seems like it's reading just fine, but then it starts making this clicking noise. I might make a video later to clarify what I mean exactly.

 

[JoostinOnline]

Create a SysCheck with the guide in my signature. I want to see what you have installed.

 

[sjones900]

My SysCheck:

Spoiler

sysCheck v2.0.1 by Double_A
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)
Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 117127470
Boot2 v4

Found 63 titles.
Found 48 IOS on this console. 13 of them are stub.

IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): Trucha Bug
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 256): Stub
IOS12 (rev 526): Trucha Bug
IOS13 (rev 1032): Trucha Bug
IOS14 (rev 1032): Trucha Bug
IOS15 (rev 1032): Trucha Bug
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): Trucha Bug
IOS20 (rev 256): Stub
IOS21 (rev 1039): Trucha Bug
IOS22 (rev 1294): Trucha Bug
IOS28 (rev 1807): Trucha Bug
IOS30 (rev 2816): Stub
IOS31 (rev 3608): Trucha Bug
IOS33 (rev 3608): Trucha Bug
IOS34 (rev 3608): Trucha Bug
IOS35 (rev 3608): Trucha Bug
IOS36 (rev 3608): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS37 (rev 5663): Trucha Bug
IOS38 (rev 4124): Trucha Bug
IOS40 (rev 3072): Stub
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 5120): Stub
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5663): Trucha Bug
IOS55 (rev 5663): Trucha Bug
IOS56 (rev 5662): Trucha Bug
IOS57 (rev 5919): Trucha Bug
IOS58 (rev 6176): No Patches
IOS60 (rev 6400): Stub
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6912): Stub
IOS80 (rev 6944): Trucha Bug
IOS202 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS222 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS223 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS224 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS249 (rev 21007): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10

Report generated on 2011/12/10.

 

[JoostinOnline]

I see you used BrickMyWii to install everything. Why didn't you use the latest version of SysCheck?

 

[sjones900]

Uh.. I was just under the impression that either would do. I can run it again under version 2 if you'd like. But regardless this isn't a software issue. I just recently bannerbombed this wii this morning, and it had the same disc reading issue before, with no hacks or mods. But I do have USB up and running.. which is something, I guess.

 

[JoostinOnline]

Uh.. I was just under the impression that either would do. I can run it again under version 2 if you'd like. But regardless this isn't a software issue. I just recently bannerbombed this wii this morning, and it had the same disc reading issue before, with no hacks or mods. But I do have USB up and running.. which is something, I guess.

No, as stated in the guide you should use the newer version and only fall back to others if it freezes. You don't need to run it again, but posting the alternative version threw me off.

I didn't realize the problem existed before you hacked it. Btw, you should rehack your Wii with ModMii if you ever run into problems with USB. BrickMyWii has a history for screwing things up, plus your cIOS setup is bad.

Btw, are you playing retail discs?

 

[sjones900]

Yes I am playing retail discs only at this point. I don't have it set up for backups outside of USB loaders. I only have 1 game it's house of the dead 1 and 2, but it can't possibly be the game since it's not even scratched. I'm gonna work the ios and cios stuff later, I just ran brickmywii just to get a lot of it out of the way.

-edit-
It seems that there's nothing left I can do to repair the drive. It's just going to have to replaced, which thankfully isn't too expensive these days. I was really hoping that I would get lucky and just get a dusty drive, not the case at all. If I were to guess, it looks as if this wii took a tumble.