Hardware Nand-Aid Install Help

Switch_Maniac

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Hi All. Hope everyone is well. I didn't want to make a separate post, but thought it would be easier to keep track of any replies and info.

My WiiU nand is definitely dying. Getting 160-0103 and games crash a minute or 2 into them. I was able to make what I believe is a fullback up of the nand as well as my saves separate just incase I end up needing another console. Plus I like to learn new stuff and figured having an SD card instead of a soldered chip would be nice.

I am following this guide. I installed the nand-aid. Seems to be good as I cannot find any shorts anywhere and all the points seem to be making connections where they are supposed to. When I write the MLC backup to a 32gb SD card, I don't get any errors either.

Basically I am at the point where I need to boot back to the recovery menu and run the wupserver to repair any of the corruption. The problem is I can not longer get the recovery menu to load. The WiiU turns on, I get a blue light, the fan turns on and the drive does what it does when the console turns on, but I get no video at all on HDMI or composite. The gamepad is also no longer synced. I also did not install ISFShax :(

I also am using my unpatched switch so that I can see if it's actually trying to do anything. It looks like it is. One is of the switch screen and there others are of the nand-aid install. Screen shot shows what is on my Switch scree when I try to boot the recovery menu. I can post pics of the install and the logs I was able to get when I made the backup if needed.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I believe I have done everything right, but am stuck now.

Thanks in advance.
 

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Does the console still turn on the tablet, if you use the power button on the console?
 
Does the console still turn on the tablet, if you use the power button on the console?
No, unfortunately and if I turn the tablet on it just says it can't connect to the console. I do have both of the wireless boards plugged in as well. Which makes me think either something is wrong with the backup I made or something with the restore to the SD card even though it doesn't show any errors when using win32disk imager.

Edit: Just to add more info. The console did still boot prior. It would just throw the error. I could possibly bridge the clk pad (I think) and remove the SD card to try and boot with the nand again if that would help in anyway. Assuming that would work.
 
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