Hacking Wii (RVL 101) showing black screen when i boot

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My grandma found a Wii at a yard sale and bought it. She tried to plug it in and play it but it just went straight to black. I own a Wii so i went over and plugged my (rvl 001) Wii into her cords and it worked just fine. I think her wii got bricked when the previous owners tried to homebrew it. Can anyone help me get her wii working again?
 

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Try holding reset while powering in the console, if u get a priiloader screen u r in luck.

Also try saving the bootmii folder from here (http://static.hackmii.com/bootmii_sd_files.zip) to a fat32 formatted sd card, and insert it in the Wii, and try powering it on. If bootmii is installed as boot2, and sd:/bootmii is detected during the boot process, it will load.

If u can access bootmii or priiloader, you're in business. If not, u could try the savemiifrii method (Google for it) but priiloader/bootmii are your best bet
 

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Without a nand backup this Wii is unsalvegeable even with priiloader.
ehm that's not always true, so.. a lot of bricked wii's can be repaired without nand backup.
i've done a lot of them, depends on what can start or not, and what really is broken.
if it boot to priiloader and it can run a syscheck there might be something we can do.
wiibrew has a page for it specially on how to find out what type of brick you're dealing with (unless it's hardware related, but we can deal with that aswel. just needs to have the peys still intact on the flash and everything else is repairable.
 
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Without a nand backup this Wii is unsalvegeable even with priiloader.
This couldn't be further from the truth.

With priiloader u can install/launch bootmii, dump the keys, and create a new virgin nand for the console using ohneschwanzenegger. If it's just a bannerbrick or theme brick it's even easier, just remove the offending channel or reinstall the standard theme

It's possible the system menu or system menu IOS is trashed, rendering priiloader useless, it's also possible it was never installed to begin with. Won't know until you try to load it (and/or bootmii @boot2)
 

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Try holding reset while powering in the console, if u get a priiloader screen u r in luck.

Also try saving the bootmii folder from here (i removed the link because i am a new user and i cant quote you if you have a link) to a fat32 formatted sd card, and insert it in the Wii, and try powering it on. If bootmii is installed as boot2, and sd:/bootmii is detected during the boot process, it will load.

If u can access bootmii or priiloader, you're in business. If not, u could try the savemiifrii method (Google for it) but priiloader/bootmii are your best bet
Reset didn't work, but I did happen to get a state where the power button stopped turning it off, so did I get priiloader but I cant see it? Also, I am trying to get the rvl 101 to work. on 101s the boot2 can't be modified, and no GameCube slots so no savemii frii or save mii
 
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Reset didn't work, but I did happen to get a state where the power button stopped turning it off, so did I get priiloader but I cant see it? Also, I am trying to get the rvl 101 to work. on 101s the boot2 can't be modified, and no GameCube slots so no savemii frii or save mii
download: https://github.com/modmii/modmii.github.io/raw/master/ModMiiInstaller.exe or read https://wiibrew.org/wiki/Brick
if there's nothing happening at al it's hard to diagnose, for it is at least partly hardware, then again there are some hardcore researchers on this forum that helped people reviving wii's that we're close to the inpossible.
if you can get it to show something with these tools/website helping you then we can probably save the wii.
 

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