Hi, lately a friend of mine brought me a Wii to repair. I'm a student in electronics repairs so I have a background.
So the problem with the drive is that it won't read any disks. Like on the system menu, when inserting a disk, the disk on disk channel doesn't even spin.
Now took apart the console, got to the disk drive and performed a few tests. I noticed the motor wouldn't spin at all, nor would the laser light up. The motor carrying the lens works tho. After trying a few disks, eventually it started running. The disk channel would detect games but when I tried loading them the Wii would crash. After testing a few games again, it eventually got back to not spinning/lighting up.
At first I thought it was the spindle motor, but I figured it possibly isn't spinning because of the laser not being able to read the disk(not lighting up).
So in your opinion/experiences, do you think an optical block swap is gonna work?
So the problem with the drive is that it won't read any disks. Like on the system menu, when inserting a disk, the disk on disk channel doesn't even spin.
Now took apart the console, got to the disk drive and performed a few tests. I noticed the motor wouldn't spin at all, nor would the laser light up. The motor carrying the lens works tho. After trying a few disks, eventually it started running. The disk channel would detect games but when I tried loading them the Wii would crash. After testing a few games again, it eventually got back to not spinning/lighting up.
At first I thought it was the spindle motor, but I figured it possibly isn't spinning because of the laser not being able to read the disk(not lighting up).
So in your opinion/experiences, do you think an optical block swap is gonna work?