Hardware Replacement Disk Drive

[Sathya]

because I wanted to try to fix the old drive. if you looked through the thread you would find most of this information that you keep asking me for.

We had the same problem... try to ask to cyan maybe he can help you.

 

[tbb043]

If your time is worth anything, easy fix is just buy another Wii, not replacement drive. They're not rare enough to be very expensive, are they? better yet, if you don't need GC BC (and maybe even if you do Nintendon't may suffice) get a Wii U. Flop or not it's a great system, and easy as balls to hack the Wii mode. I appreciate not wanting to just throw out the old system, but you're spending so much time and it's gotta to be getting annoying and a hassle, so just think if you might not be better served with a replacement. Whatever you do, good luck.

 

[UpsideDownTaco]

If your time is worth anything, easy fix is just buy another Wii, not replacement drive. They're not rare enough to be very expensive, are they? better yet, if you don't need GC BC (and maybe even if you do Nintendon't may suffice) get a Wii U. Flop or not it's a great system, and easy as balls to hack the Wii mode. I appreciate not wanting to just throw out the old system, but you're spending so much time and it's gotta to be getting annoying and a hassle, so just think if you might not be better served with a replacement. Whatever you do, good luck.

I've got a wii u and I do already use nintendont and usb loaders, but I just want my discs to not just be useless, since I go on my wii more than my wii u.

 

[Cyan]

That's funny because everyone else only want their disc to be useless and install all games to USB instead, so they don't have to use and swap discs anymore.
you can use usbloaders and nintendont on wii too, so it's a little strange argument that "you have a Wii too, not only a wiiu, so you need to use disc on it" because you could ALSO use disc on wiiu and not make them useless, I don't see the reasoning here that the non working wii drive would make disc useless. because you use wii more ? hmm, lot of people who use a wii don't use disc anymore, just go with usbloaders too, unless you have non compatible games (we dare, tintin, drivers)

 

[Asia81]

Or just buy a new 30$ second hand wii.
Problem solved.

 

[UpsideDownTaco]

yes, I understand I'm weird, but I do want this problem fixed. I already use usb loaders and nintendont, but I want to figure out what the exact problem is. I know that there's a million other solutions that could work, but none of them involve actually fixing the problem.

 

[tswntk]

well, if you are so determined, then buy a used Wii, preferably the same model as yours, make sure its working then start by swapping components one by one. Your disk drive might not be the only thing that has gone wrong...
You probably also need to buy a decent repair station to swap the ICs

 

[Sathya]

are you sure you dont miss about this things when installing your wii lens? watch the red circle below;

 

[UpsideDownTaco]

are you sure you dont miss about this things when installing your wii lens? watch the red circle below;
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Yes, I am sure. PLEASE stop asking your questions one by one, it's unhelpful and it takes way longer than it should.

 

[UpsideDownTaco]

bump.

 

[UpsideDownTaco]

bump. again.

 

[UpsideDownTaco]

*cough*

 

[Cyan]

Bumping is not needed anymore, if there's no answer it means nobody knows. bumping will not make people know your answer.
One day, someone will find this thread and will have the answer to your question (eventually).

 

[UpsideDownTaco]

aight so I tossed the disk drive and got another wii that reads disks for $10 problem solved

 

[MrNintendo]

nice fix, stumble with this problem and similar on the wiis I repair on my work,sometimes it is faster and cheaper to replace the drive or get my client a new wii since I get them for 5 dollars or less.