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right guys and gals,

ive been given a black wii running 4.2e(Bootmii as IOS,HBC Installed) but basically its semi-bricked and i am unable to acess the system settings. ive checked everything and put it down to someone running ANY Region Changer on it, as it was on the SD card.

i did try and reinstall the NAND but someone didnt bac it up

am i right in thinking i can just reinstall 4.2e using YAWM to reinstall 4.2e which i have from my own wii and i wont mess up the softmods.

edit: also i should mention i tryed using modmii earlier and couldnt download any files
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Figure out what system menu is installed and what the settings are, then decide what system menu and region you want the wii to be. Either install the system menu that matches the current settings or set the settings to match the current system menu, or change both to your pleasure. A syscheck will tell you the currently installed system menu and region.
 

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Madr0x said:
am i right in thinking i can just reinstall 4.2e using YAWM to reinstall 4.2e which i have from my own wii and i wont mess up the softmods.

edit: also i should mention i tryed using modmii earlier and couldnt download any files
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Reinstalling a system menu will remove priiloader if it was installed. But other than that, it will be fine.

For modmii...have you checked your firewall settings? It works on my end (and on more ppl's ends), so unless some service is suddenly down, I doubt it's the program. Either way...if not modmii, NUSD lets you download the system menu as well.
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just a quick update. ive checked any region changer and it was the shop channel that is wrong ive changed it back but i still cant get into the system settings. i will do anouther syscheck and post the results, also i cant get on the sd card either, the screen goes black and says the system files are missing or curropt
 

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did a system check and this is what its telling me

sysCheck v1.6.2 by Erik Spyder

Region: PAL
The system menu v514 is running under IOS36 (rev 3607)
Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 125913986
Boot2 v4
Found 97 titles
Found 30 IOS on this console
Found 11 IOS Stubs on this console

IOS (revision),IOS Stub,Trucha Bug,ES Identify,Flash Access,NAND Access,Boot2 Access,USB 2.0
IOS3 (rev 65280),Yes,?,?,?,?,?,?
IOS4 (rev 65280),Yes,?,?,?,?,?,?
IOS9 (rev 1034),No,Enabled,Enabled,Disabled,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled
IOS10 (rev 768),Yes,?,?,?,?,?,?
IOS11 (rev 256),Yes,?,?,?,?,?,?
IOS12 (rev 525),No,Enabled,Enabled,Disabled,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled
IOS13 (rev 1031),No,Enabled,Enabled,Disabled,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled
IOS14 (rev 1031),No,Enabled,Enabled,Disabled,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled
IOS15 (rev 1031),No,Enabled,Enabled,Disabled,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled
IOS16 (rev 512),Yes,?,?,?,?,?,?
IOS17 (rev 1031),No,Enabled,Enabled,Disabled,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled
IOS20 (rev 256),Yes,?,?,?,?,?,?
IOS21 (rev 1038),No,Enabled,Enabled,Disabled,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled
IOS22 (rev 1293),No,Enabled,Enabled,Disabled,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled
IOS28 (rev 1806),No,Enabled,Enabled,Disabled,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled
IOS30 (rev 2816),Yes,?,?,?,?,?,?
IOS31 (rev 3607),No,Enabled,Enabled,Disabled,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled
IOS33 (rev 3607),No,Enabled,Enabled,Disabled,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled
IOS34 (rev 3607),No,Enabled,Enabled,Disabled,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled
IOS35 (rev 3607),No,Enabled,Enabled,Disabled,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled
IOS36 (rev 3607),No,Enabled,Enabled,Disabled,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled
IOS37 (rev 5662),No,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled
IOS38 (rev 4123),No,Enabled,Enabled,Disabled,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled
IOS50 (rev 5120),Yes,?,?,?,?,?,?
IOS51 (rev 4864),Yes,?,?,?,?,?,?
IOS53 (rev 5662),No,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled
IOS55 (rev 5406),No,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled
IOS56 (rev 5661),No,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled
IOS57 (rev 5918),No,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled
IOS58 (rev 6175),No,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled
IOS60 (rev 6400),Yes,?,?,?,?,?,?
IOS61 (rev 5661),No,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled
IOS70 (rev 6687),No,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled
IOS80 (rev 6943),No,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled,Disabled
IOS202 (rev 65535),No,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled,Enabled,Disabled,Enabled
IOS222 (rev 65535),No,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled,Enabled,Disabled,Enabled
IOS223 (rev 65535),No,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled,Enabled,Disabled,Enabled
IOS224 (rev 65535),No,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled,Enabled,Disabled,Enabled
IOS249 (rev 19),No,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled,Enabled,Disabled,Enabled
IOS250 (rev 65535),No,Enabled,Disabled,Disabled,Enabled,Disabled,Enabled
IOS254 (rev 31338),No,?,?,?,?,?,?


Report generated on 2009/10/30
 

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I know it has already been suggested by troy512, but it would seem you may have missed his words, try Wii Mod. Wii Mod is specifically designed to help find and fix issues like this. If it can't seem to find anything wrong with your IOSs and region settings then it is likely, as suggested by mauifrog, that you need to reinstall the system menu over the current one. You can install a new system menu easily in Wii Mod as well. Give it a shot and let me know how it works out for you, if it can't fix it Ill be even more interested in what could be wrong with your wii.
 

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What happens when you go to the setting? It does not look like a region brick. Reinstall ios80, SM 4.3e, and priiloader 0.7. This will likely fix your issue
What where the settings at in ARC
 

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