Those new Wiis with 4 layer boards don't get hot enough to kill the caps. The fact it's outputting nothing at all is very concerning, even if Wi-Fi and Bluetooth were missing it would still at least output a black screen. No output means the Wii...
Yeah, I suspect the NAND got corrupted or something (though I don't know that much about this sort of thing so I may be wrong). New Wii has been ordered and is on its way (:
I unfortunately don't have a pair of speakers I can test this on, nor do I have an adaptor. I did try to plug the Wii into a different TV (HD TV) to see if I got anything, and I also tried a different CRT, but again nothing.
Black consoles were too new to install bootmii boot2. Which in your case is both good and bad. The good news is that if the console were shutdown mid-bootmii installation, it would have been installing as IOS (not boot2), so this should not cause...
I left it on for a few minutes but didn't hear anything. Some additional information if it helps, the disk drive accepts and ejects disks just fine, but when I put a disk in it doesn't spin at all.
I plugged in an old NES into the same TV inputs and the NES's video worked, so I don't think the inputs are the problem. I've tried holding down the reset button for Priiloader, but nothing. So, it would appear that the Wii is truly dead. I'll...
Hello, everyone. Any help is appreciated. I am not a homebrewer, really. I just want to see if I can recover this Wii.
About ten years ago, my brother and his friend bricked their Wii. My brother told me he “turned the Wii off while updating...