Hacking full bricked wii without keys

[woody565]

harsh way off putting it but suppose there is some truth in there, especiialy as i have just seen the sentence "P has 2 possible connections, but I prefer connecting it to where T, O, and Q are connected in row"

All i can do is appoligise and hope your still there to give advice (that isnt on the tutorial)

Thanks Danny

 

[woody565]

i have got the chip installed and the software installed, Xavbox detects the infectus chip but when i click open i get "Error during infectus reset". i have googled the error message and been to the infectus forums but cannot find out an answer

Here is a pic of the infectus programmer and it is showing a red light!! is this normal?

thanks for any ideas

 

[woody565]

problem solved, had to reprog infectus into nand mode

 

[woody565]

found answer

 

[woody565]

ok so i have got a nand backup with bootmii as boot2.

i have read 1000 - 1015, i can erase and erase verify, and write the data back but it comes up with errors when comparing data.

I have removed all the wiring and re-done as short as possible and have a switch to earth down D0 on startup.

Anything else i could try?

 

[woody565]

Ok looks like im removing the chip then! didnt fancy doing that.

Has anyone tried using an external power supply for the infectus and leaving the chip in the board?

 

[thiefstar]

Ok looks like im removing the chip then! didnt fancy doing that.

Has anyone tried using an external power supply for the infectus and leaving the chip in the board?

 

[woody565]

I removed the chip using a butane soldering iron and have now wired the nand to the infectus using the pins on the tutorial, but it doesnt show where the +ve and 0v are on the nand. Anyone know which pins they are?

thanks

 

[woody565]

i cant erase and erase verify block 3 on my nand, so obviously if i write the new boot2 to blocks 3 & 4 block 3 is different, is there anything i can do?

thanks

 

[woody565]

the nand is out and on a pcb connected directly to the infectus.

this is the message i get

Blocs verify from 3 to 4
Bloc not erased 3 page 63

 

[woody565]

god damn it!!! will a new chip make a difference? got some coming tomorrow?

 

[SFenton]

block 3 could just be a bad block, and if thats the case then you are really screwed

If he has no Block 3, doesn't that mean he doesn't have a Boot2?

Excuse my noobiness, I'm not as great on hardware.

 

[woody565]

cheers mate, i have installed betwiin a few days ago and seems to be running fine.

Is it simply a case of putting my doner nand and keys in the inout folder my key in the output folder and running betwiin?

 

[woody565]

I have some new chips now, do I have to flash my whole NAND dump to it or is just bootmii enough to get the keys.bin,
just trying to eliminate the long flash time.

Cheers

 

[ciris]

damn man, this is some intense work...

 

[woody565]

ok so the chips turned up but they dispatched the wrong ones, they where hynix 512mb tsop48 but they where a different model, new ones arriving tomorow.

The nand.bin i am going to use to flash blocks 0-7 was made using bootmii, is this ok to use or does it need hex edditing in any way first?

Thanks
dan

 

[Deeptrap]

following this topic from today, nice work woody same pobs here, with a very old wii, this week i will go for trying to get bootmii installed,
i wonder if i read that you have found a dump, are there different dumps ? jap eu kor etc ?

 

[woody565]

holy f&*k its nearly done!!

just booted my wii into bootmii and currently doing a dumo to get keys.bin

After god knows how many hours with a soldering iron on my hand and countless posts on forums bugging people with questions (mainly deadlyfoez on here lol) i have nearly unbricked my dead wii.

i have run into a few problems along the way and will post them later along with the solutions i have found. I posted a link last week showing where to get hynix chips, turns out they no longer stock that chip and supply a similar chip which isnt compatable with the wii, i will find post and change it later.

just got to run betwiin now and reflash nand and i should be "golden".

Cheers for every bit of help everyone, and ill be around to help other if i can

Woody

 

[pspmte]

My advice is take that Nand of the board and then dump it with the infectus, i fixed over 100 wiis, infact my Nand ic socket need re doing lol

Btw i think theres a way to fix bricked wii without the keys, so save thos old motherboards

also i understand by looking at wii motherboard what boot2 you will have its in the broadway :-)

rvl-30 is the bad boy

Matte

 

[woody565]

i have got comex's nand flasher and nus downloader but after an hour searching i still dont know what files i need to put in the wad folder? i have a pal wii, can anyone shed some light please?

thanks

dan