Dunno but did this to my falcon and it worked. You could always remove the wire to get this to the ground if you wanna update xbr or build a switch to turn write protection on and off.
If you can't request a repair because your console is already registered (bought it used), you can always enable write protection on the nand chip, though you gotta be pretty good with a soldering iron.
Fortunately, there's an easier spot to solder under the board instead of directly on the...
Forget this, ms don't ban a console because it has an hd coming from a banned consoled plugged it, it's simply crippled, you can't read shit from it and have to format it if you wanna use it, that's all, no ban on console that haven't been modded. Damn rumors, hate them.
I have an auto switcher for composite/svideo and it works like a charm. It has priorities if more than 1 device is on at the same time. Mine will always display input 1 first, then 2, and so on. I presume a good hdmi switcher could do the same.
As for 1080i vs 1080p, yeah I do see a difference...
Try setting WBFS Manager in windows xp sp3 compatibility mode with "run this program as admin". It wouldn't let me format my sd card to wbfs otherwise, maybe this could also work for you. If you don't know how, right click on the program, properties, compatibility, voilà all is there.
Tell me something, if I don't have an usb hdd plugged in the wii, usb loader gx will wait 30 secs for the hdd then simply reboot the wii. I thought about doing that for a friend without a hd, ended up installing neogamma r7 and giving him some old sd card. Any reason why usb loader gx reboots...
I feel like school, back when I was actually in school, was more entertaining though, because of how much I get to interact with people, hang out with friends, and other stuff like that. All I get to talk to at work is my boring coworkers lol