Hacking Possible Full Brick, How Can I Fix?

[hankarlo]

Hi all, my mate has just bricked his Wii doing a firmware upgrade. Its a full brick I think coz its just a black screen when you power the system up. He hasnt got preloader or bootmii or HBC installed, would it be possible to fix it, If I replaced his DVD drive, with my D2Pro modded drive & tried to get his Wii to boot with Any Region Changer autoboot-disk? Have any of yous tried recovering form a similar situation & succeeded? Im trying to gather as much info as I can before I attempt to fix it for him. I'd really appreciate any tips or help from anyone with knowledge of unbricking Wii's.

Thanx for reading

Hankarlo

 

[HiBit]

You can only fix the Wii if the recovery mode work and there is [c]IOS with trucha available.
To see the recovery mode work you can use savemiifrii and if it didn't work you can't fix the Wii with your drive.

 

[WiiPower]

Was the Wii on 4.0 somewhen, and at 3.2 before the update from disc?

 

[hankarlo]

Thanx for the replies guys...
I think it was on v3.2e before the attempted upgrade. Is there any way of knowing?

 

[aabbccdd]

Upgrading from 3.2 to 3.4 sometimes if not always results in a full brick.

 

[Covarr]

Upgrading from 3.2 to 3.4 sometimes if not always results in a full brick.

No, not always.

Downgrade from 4.x to 3.2, then upgrade to 3.4 will result in a full brick.

 

[HiBit]

Downgrade from 4.x to 3.2, then upgrade to 3.4 will result in a full brick.

But only if there is an stub IOS installed(i think some tools know the problem and didn't install a stub IOS).