Yes, it's a PAL Wii, forgot to add that, and as I recall it was v4.3. Didn't know it was a Korean one, that's weird (although, as I said, my brother bought it second-hand, or third-hand, who knows).
As for the lack of chip being the cause of drive problems, that's 100%, because this same thing happened once before while the chip was still glued on the case. The cable came off and the error started showing up, my brother called me up to see if I could help, and once I reconnected the cable to the chip, Wii started working right as rain again, both the cd drive and USB backups. Of course the chip is gone now, so that's that.
I'll run the syscheck as soon as I can and report back... I'll try to do it this evening if I grab some free time, but otherwise might be a couple of days though, due to some business trip that came up...when I come back I'll immediately send the results.
Thanks for the help so far though, this is truly a friendly community. Cheers!
As for the lack of chip being the cause of drive problems, that's 100%, because this same thing happened once before while the chip was still glued on the case. The cable came off and the error started showing up, my brother called me up to see if I could help, and once I reconnected the cable to the chip, Wii started working right as rain again, both the cd drive and USB backups. Of course the chip is gone now, so that's that.
I'll run the syscheck as soon as I can and report back... I'll try to do it this evening if I grab some free time, but otherwise might be a couple of days though, due to some business trip that came up...when I come back I'll immediately send the results.
Thanks for the help so far though, this is truly a friendly community. Cheers!