The best way is to install all the latest ios so they are all on official unmodded versions just in case one of them might have been modded for some reason, next is remove any custom channels, cios, bootmii and all that stuff

What I did which you could do the next time around is make a nand backup of the wii just after you installed bootmii but before you done all the modding, this way all you have to do when you send it to nintendo is restore from that nand then uninstall bootmii and hbc and then you got a clean wii without having to go through all that fuss of making sure everything is uninstalled

edit there was a subject on this a while ago on the hackmii blog where someone removed everything yet nintendo still knew that he modded his wii so it voided is warranty, TT said they will be looking at that persons wii to see what nintendo could have seen to come to that conclusion but thats all I know, I dunno what they found or if they found anything for that matter so look that up

edit heres that blog post about it: http://hackmii.com/2010/04/check-disk-for-...repair-process/

 

Quoting myself from my post HERE

 

so I need to buy a tri-wing screw driver and get out my solder gun then? lol

go buy another wii? or just hope nintendo hires either idiots and/or apathetic techies?

any tips on how to proceed?

Like I said... I am pretty sure the piece that connects the video cable to the motherboard is partially broken loose?

 

You may as well send it to nintendo as you got nothing to lose as you will need to fix it or replace it anyway just something to gain if your revirginizing is a success and they cant tell whether its modded

 

update.. found my answer... anyone interested can check it out...

http://www.wiihacks.com/bricked-wii-issues...l-your-wii.html

this guide includes punes version of nand formatter that allows you to keep your existing key.

UPDATE: Work continued to advance formatter to 2.0
http://www.wiihacks.com/bricked-wii-issues...html#post380023

 

factory bad blocks SHOULD not be an issue with the nand formatter as it works on the file level. i didnt touch any of that part of the code from comex, so it is handled exactly in the same way. the bad block stuff needs to be taken into account when dealing with the nand on the block level like backupmii does, ignoring the actual files in the filesystem. bad blocks are an issue if you try to write the system menu or something important to a bad block.

the "installing stuff in the right order" mumbo-jumbo is referring to the uid.sys. there is evidence of all the factory setup discs used to install your ioses and stuff originally. when you install stuff with the nand formatter, you dont get these entries in the uid. there is also test log file(s) that are not taken into account.

 

If considering opening the Wii, why not try to address the actual problem (the video port)? Maybe a little bit of solder will fix everything.

And if soldering it doesn't fix it, it'll probably brick it.

 

I sent my homebrewed wii into Nintendo. Just did removed my custom channels, sent it in, got it back working fine. They didn't say anything about.

 

For anyone who cares I fixed my wii!


well not exactly! the solution to the problem is still baffling me a lil bit...
Before I had tested the wii with two diff power cables and three diff video cables on two tvs..

It wasn't until I just tried it on a third tv that I realized what the problem was...

The common factor between the first two test locations was that both tv's had bose 2.1 sound systems, and the wii was sitting on the right side of the sub woofer about a foot away...

It doesn't matter if the woofer hsa power to it or not.. if my wii gets within 2 feet of the right side.. snow everywhere (it only recently started doing this)

When I sit the wii on the left side of woofer.. (not to the right, above, or below.. on the left side) my wii works perfectly...

so in conclusion my wii is more sensitive to electromagnetic fields generated by either electronics and/or permanent magnets...

As long as my wii is far away or in a shielded location.. it works fine!

I have never heard of anyone else every having this problem. nor do I understand why my wii just recently started doing this.. It's also interesting to note that the wii works fine on the third test location... even sitting right on top of a 18 inch subwoofer!! so is it just the bose woofers (both of them, purchased diff locations)? I am really confused now!

EDIT: if my wii video cable (any of the three) gets anywhere near my bose subwoofer (both of them) my wii looks like shit!)

EDIT2: just tried another wii in same locations that affect mine... works perfect.. So only my wii is affected by ONLY bose subwoofers (just recently). Tested with two other subwoofers now of equal or bigger size (*magnets inside should be bigger), but only the two bose systems affect ONLY my wii...

WEIRD! anyone got a scientific explanation?