I, LittleSinchen, proclaim myself as a complete idiot.
If you ever buy a Wii with the description "faulty disc drive" don't be as dumb as I have been yesterday. My thoughts:
Then "An error has occurred. Eject the disc…blablabla"
Disc comes out… deep scratch, perfectly circular. What on earth did this drive just do with my game disc?! I was able to get rid of most of the scratch with car polish. However, CleanRip still reports an unrecovered read error. Circular scratches are very bad for optical discs.
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Today I decided to open that thing up. There was children's play money in there. A cardboard 2-Euro "coin" as well as cardboard 5 Cent. The position was perfect. It reached above the laser and would have f…ed up every disc.
Note to self: Always disassemble a Wii with "faulty drive" before inserting a disc. You never know what the previous owner put in there – other than discs.
Pictures:
Update:
The disc drive is fully working now – since I took out that &"$"(.
Last update on this:
I sold that Wii truthfully describing the issues that this Wii has had and that opening was required. Got a few € more than I paid while keping the original packaging and manual. No hard- or software modification done to that unit.
Hopefully the new owner is happy with it.
If you ever buy a Wii with the description "faulty disc drive" don't be as dumb as I have been yesterday. My thoughts:
- Faulty disc drive? Maybe the lens is dirty.
- It is a black Wii → Most likely D3-2 drive which means it will ignore anything that is not a genuine Wii or GC disc.
- Let's see if the drive even recognizes a disc. *Inserts Wii disc*
Then "An error has occurred. Eject the disc…blablabla"
Disc comes out… deep scratch, perfectly circular. What on earth did this drive just do with my game disc?! I was able to get rid of most of the scratch with car polish. However, CleanRip still reports an unrecovered read error. Circular scratches are very bad for optical discs.
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Today I decided to open that thing up. There was children's play money in there. A cardboard 2-Euro "coin" as well as cardboard 5 Cent. The position was perfect. It reached above the laser and would have f…ed up every disc.
Sinchen →
Note to self: Always disassemble a Wii with "faulty drive" before inserting a disc. You never know what the previous owner put in there – other than discs.
Pictures:
Update:
The disc drive is fully working now – since I took out that &"$"(.
Last update on this:
I sold that Wii truthfully describing the issues that this Wii has had and that opening was required. Got a few € more than I paid while keping the original packaging and manual. No hard- or software modification done to that unit.
Hopefully the new owner is happy with it.