Hardware How I fixed 160-0103 system memory error

[pulterbit]

@Lazr1026 sorry that it took me so long to get back in touch with you. Here are the pictures of the slc nand chip Hope this helps.

 

[Lazr1026]

@Lazr1026 sorry that it took me so long to get back in touch with you. Here are the pictures of the slc nand chip Hope this helps.

Spansion.. interesting

 

[V10lator]

Here are the pictures of the slc nand

You're sure it's SLC and not MLC ? Also is this from a 8 or 32 GB Wii U ?

//EDIT: Finally found that chip but it doesn't make any sense to find such a chip inside of a Wii U (it's a 8 GB SLC). Was this console refurbished by some 3rd party company? it's a 1 GB SLC.

 

[Carnage]

Some other good news: a modchip to help restore Wii U consoles (and get boot0 cold boot) is in development!

https://t.co/YzpcBe99oB

@Valery0p WOW, didn't expect that considering the age of the Wii U. Why don't you post a thread specifically about it, otherwise it will get lost on this thread

 

[Voultar]

Prototypes have arrived.

Fitment is excellent. The dimensions are precise and the PCB fits exactly as it should. The only minor tweak that I'm considering making is to the right leg of the PCB that attaches to the negative rail of that electrolytic capacitor to make it a little easier to solder. But ultimately, this is ready to rock and roll.

Anyone want to test?

 

[SylverReZ]

Prototypes have arrived.

Fitment is excellent. The dimensions are precise and the PCB fits exactly as it should. The only minor tweak that I'm considering making is to the right leg of the PCB that attaches to the negative rail of that electrolytic capacitor to make it a little easier to solder. But ultimately, this is ready to rock and roll.

Anyone want to test?
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That's awesome stuff, Voultar. You've done great mods in the past and I love how far you've progressed.

 

[Danook28]

Prototypes have arrived.

Fitment is excellent. The dimensions are precise and the PCB fits exactly as it should. The only minor tweak that I'm considering making is to the right leg of the PCB that attaches to the negative rail of that electrolytic capacitor to make it a little easier to solder. But ultimately, this is ready to rock and roll.

Anyone want to test?
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You can fix wiiu with no nand backup????

 

[V10lator]

You can fix wiiu with no nand backup????

You see the D2, D1, D0, ... Solderpads at the prototype? These allow you to hardware dump your NAND (in case you're able to run the recovery menu a software dumper is in the works, too).

Fixing this corrupted image is another thing through. If that's possible hardly depends on the grade of corruption. Also there are things we can't fix right now but at least work around them (like corrupted folders: They aren't deleteable but a firmware reset wants to delete them, causing the firmware reset to crash).

 

[Lazr1026]

@Voultar i would like to do some testing with those. my discord: Ivy#9890

 

[Voultar]

I've opened a separate thread. I have uploaded the files for the NAND-AID interposer for public testing: https://gbatemp.net/threads/wii-u-n...nd-replacement-interposer-public-test.630798/

 

[Xerczese]

Prototypes have arrived.

Fitment is excellent. The dimensions are precise and the PCB fits exactly as it should. The only minor tweak that I'm considering making is to the right leg of the PCB that attaches to the negative rail of that electrolytic capacitor to make it a little easier to solder. But ultimately, this is ready to rock and roll.

Anyone want to test?
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I have a WiiU that crashes on setup with the 160 error. I was going to go the traditional route but I would be happy totest if you want and I also live in same state as you

 

[michalt]

Small question - I have moved all my games from NAND to USB. However, I have still several discs (not dumped) that I am planning to use. Will it work if I move disc install files from NAND to USB? Will it use only disc/usb combination without NAND? ;-)

Thanks!

 

[marcellomls]

Prototypes have arrived.

Fitment is excellent. The dimensions are precise and the PCB fits exactly as it should. The only minor tweak that I'm considering making is to the right leg of the PCB that attaches to the negative rail of that electrolytic capacitor to make it a little easier to solder. But ultimately, this is ready to rock and roll.

Anyone want to test?
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Can I buy it here in Brazil to fix my wiiu that has a defective nand hynix?

 

[Jayro]

So has anyone been able to identify WHY all these NANDs are suddenly failing, even when not being used for long periods? Did Nintendo skimp on quality control checks? Did the chip fabs skimp on QC? I wanna know who's at fault for this, what can be done to fix it in the long-term, and I feel like a class-action lawsuit is brewing over this.

 

[V10lator]

@Jayro Data is still beeing collected but so far it seems Hynix produced a single bad batch of chips and Nintendo used these.

This can happen anytime, anywhere and slip through QA quite easy (remember these chips worked for around 10 years now before showing issues. The expected lifetime was probably lower than this). Don't think you're able to sue anyone for this.

//EDIT: Long term fix is to replace the chip like described in this thread. Remember that all flash media will die sooner or later through, so maybe in 20+ years you'll have to apply the same fix again.

 

[marcellomls]

Nintendo should send a switch as a gift to all those who lost the wiiu due to the poor quality of the nand hynix, as it should be stated in the manual that the console could not be turned off for more than 1 year.

 

[V10lator]

Nintendo should send a switch as a gift to all those who lost the wiiu

Actually Nintendo repaired such consoles for free even when they where out of the guarantee time. Today they don't give support at all anymore through.

 

[dustinrue]

I have a BSOD Wii U that started with the 160-0103 error and just progressively got worse until the thing wouldn't even init the screen on boot. I hard mod'd it and was able to extract the MLC. What confuses me is that I got zero errors. This doesn't make sense as the error logs pulled using uhpid suggest it is a hardware error even on reads, but I get zero hardware errors when dumping the full MLC using dd on my computer.

Is there a method available today to simply init the MLC as empty? I assume that I can't simply dd the eMMC blank and the Wii U will magically format it on first boot (how did they do this in the factory?) but I'm just looking for some way to make this system run again at all. I have a replacement Wii U so I can do whatever on this one.

 

[SDIO]

I have a BSOD Wii U that started with the 160-0103 error and just progressively got worse until the thing wouldn't even init the screen on boot. I hard mod'd it and was able to extract the MLC. What confuses me is that I got zero errors. This doesn't make sense as the error logs pulled using uhpid suggest it is a hardware error even on reads, but I get zero hardware errors when dumping the full MLC using dd on my computer.

For me it was exactly the same. I read the emmc multiple times and some bits were just random. Like the ECC just gave up. Also my eMMC became read only and only after a blkdiscard it was writable again. Maybe you can check with a few bytes at the end.

Is there a method available today to simply init the MLC as empty? I assume that I can't simply dd the eMMC blank and the Wii U will magically format it on first boot

No that won't work. IOSU will just crash if it can't mount the MLC. Also the MLC contains part of the OS.

(how did they do this in the factory?)

Probably they have some installer on an SD, as boot0 supports loading from SD of correctly signed.

but I'm just looking for some way to make this system run again at all. I have a replacement Wii U so I can do whatever on this one.

Replace the eMMC with an SD, which was cloned from the eMMC or better replace it with another eMMC. After that the broken files can be replaced if udiph works again.

 

[Valery0p]

@Valery0p WOW, didn't expect that considering the age of the Wii U. Why don't you post a thread specifically about it, otherwise it will get lost on this thread

There is, and I feel like this and the unbricking efforts should be front page news, but no one seems to care apparently...
https://gbatemp.net/threads/de_fuse-discovered-by-shiny-quagsire.630656
When I posted it on the subreddits the threads even got nuked.