Let out the magic smoke

[StrayGuitarist]

Well, my beloved blue Wii made a "pop" after plugging in my trusty USB hard drive (a laptop drive in an enclosure) and now won't turn on; light goes green, and before the blue disc slot light can even go out, it shuts off and the LED goes out until you plug it back in again. I can only assume that the drive pulled too much current all at once (bizarre 'cause I've been using it for a while) or some debris bridged some pins and shorted something, though the enclosure and drive still work on another console so I'd be surprised if that were the case.

I've got my Triwing out and I'm ready to pull her apart. Are there any particular traces or capacitors I should be looking out for? Is she just cooked?

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Well, my beloved blue Wii made a "pop" after plugging in my trusty USB hard drive (a laptop drive in an enclosure) and now won't turn on; light goes green, and before the blue disc slot light can even go out, it shuts off and the LED goes out until you plug it back in again. I can only assume that the drive pulled too much current all at once (bizarre 'cause I've been using it for a while) or some debris bridged some pins and shorted something, though the enclosure and drive still work on another console so I'd be surprised if that were the case.

I've got my Triwing out and I'm ready to pull her apart. Are there any particular traces or capacitors I should be looking out for? Is she just cooked?

There is probably a short and the power supply is getting shorted, you should look for shorts on the power rails with a multimeter and then figure out which specific component on that rail is shorted, hopefully it's an off the shelf part.