Hardware Black Screen Brick 4.3U

[sallad]

Good Evening, I have acquired a Wii that is black screen bricked. Boots into a black screen, disk drive boots up (sounds tired but i don't think this would cause the wii to black screen).

I have tried a bunch of guides that usually point to getting into Priiloader then Bootmii. But I don't think this Wii was modded or at least someone might have tried and failed because I can't get into Priiloader.

I did get into recovery mode(?) with a GC controller which it then stated the Wii was on 4.3U. Tried throwing in a newer game to see if it would update it or factory reset it but nothing. I let it sit there for 15mins.

Anyone have any suggestions before I chalk this one up as hardware failure?

Thank you for your time.....

 

[Jasjar]

It's just software failure not hardware failure, part of the system menu is corrupted. Unfortunately it can't be fixed because the recovery mode will only update if the update partition has a newer update. Really the only way to fix this would be to use a brick fix disc, but since you wii is newly updated fakesigned disc's won't be read.

 

[sallad]

So what you are saying it is toast?

 

[DeadlyFoez]

With a modchip you could boot SSBB and use smashstack to boot into homebrew. From there you can fix it.

 

[Jasjar]

Yeah I forgot that you could boot disc's with a modchip... You can fix it that way.

 

[GreyWolf]

The drive chip in the Wii has to be a model capable of reading burned discs for that method to work. Only about the first year of production has the older chips, I think.

 

[sallad]

Thanks for the help fellas. Im going to think about chipping this Wii. Maybe ill just keep it around for parts I don't know.

Edit: From the serial I have a Version 3 Wii so I am guessing it won't read burned disks? I do have a copy for SSBB though....