DSL's, not again.

[ThatGuyFlip]

I'll cut to the chase. In the past, wii games worked fine booting off of an hdd, but more recently it started having two issues.

One, which came up more recently, whenever the HDD was plugged into the wii and power before boot, it would shut off everything. Not just the wii in general, everything. Lights, ability to boot, etc. This isnt causing my wii to fully die, as simply resetting the cord and unplugging the hdd fixes it.

Next, when I plug the hdd AFTER boot, the games detect, but anytime I try to run, I always get a DSL error. No matter what I do. Any help on either solution?

edit: forgot to mention it only shows up the games on wiiflow, usb loader gx doesnt detect the drive.

 

[XFlak]

https://gbatemp.net/threads/posting-a-system-check.300279/

 

[ThatGuyFlip]

ok.

Spoiler

SysCheck HDE v2.4.0 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199, and Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 07.14.2008
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 82574028
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: United States (49)
Boot2 v4
Found 88 titles.
Found 48 IOS on this console. 15 of them are stubs.

IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 256): Stub
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 256): Stub
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 2816): Stub
IOS31 (rev 3608): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 3072): Stub
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 5120): Stub
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 6400): Stub
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6912): Stub
IOS80 (rev 6944): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS222 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS223 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS249[57] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[56] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS251[38] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 02/22/2022.

 

[XFlak]

Syscheck looks good, how is the drive formatted? Try 100% fat32, if that doesn't work try 100% wbfs. If that doesn't work, try a different hard drive

 

[ThatGuyFlip]

Syscheck looks good, how is the drive formatted? Try 100% fat32, if that doesn't work try 100% wbfs. If that doesn't work, try a different hard drive

The drive is formatted as FAT32. I also double checked the health of the hard drive, it appears healthy on my PC.

 

[XFlak]

Could still be healthy and incompatible. Sometimes compatibility is improved when the drive is formatted as wbfs (use wii backup manager to do so). You forgo the benefits of a fat32 hdd, but if it works as wbfs then at least it can store wii games

Also double check that the drive is MBR and not GPT

 

[ThatGuyFlip]

Could still be healthy and incompatible. Sometimes compatibility is improved when the drive is formatted as wbfs (use wii backup manager to do so). You forgo the benefits of a fat32 hdd, but if it works as wbfs then at least it can store wii games

Also double check that the drive is MBR and not GPT

That would not make sense. It worked completely fine, only now recently having these issues. I will try to reformat it as WBFS to see if it helps, and I can always get a separate drive for Gamecube games.

 

[ThatGuyFlip]

Could still be healthy and incompatible. Sometimes compatibility is improved when the drive is formatted as wbfs (use wii backup manager to do so). You forgo the benefits of a fat32 hdd, but if it works as wbfs then at least it can store wii games

Also double check that the drive is MBR and not GPT

Update: After some more troubleshooting, I got Wii Backup Manager to work, as well as usb loader GX now working. Thank you very much!

 

[ThatGuyFlip]

Last update, which is gonna make some people mad. Believe it or not, the entire reason this was happening, wasn't because of the format. It wasn't because of the hard-drive. It was due to the fact, that even after being suggested a dual adapter, the power going into the hard drive directly from the wall was halting any boot. I believe it's safe to say that, I am quite pissed. Makes sense due to the power led and everything shutting off, but again I am just pissed.