Good morning,
I really appreciate all the work and enthusiasm that has made all of this possible; This has proven much simpler than modding my PS2. I have encountered a few problems, though, and was wondering if any of you could provide some assistance. I've been browsing the forums here for a few days and seen others who have had similar problems, but mine have still not been resolved after about 3 nights of tinkering and following the provided advice.
I used the bannerbomb method with menu 4.0, downgradeIOS35, IOS249, running the homebrew channel. My main objective was GeeXBox and running my stored media files, but I also wanted to be able to use SD/USB loaders. I initially installed cIOS-rev10 and waninkoko's sd/usb loader 1.5. I'm running backups and media off an external 320 gb Maxtor HDD in a 3.5" IDE enclosure.
I formatted my HDD with 120gb FAT32 (primary)/ 25gb FAT32 (roms) / 175gb NTFS (media) using Partition Magic. Then I used the loader to format the 120gb partition to WBFS and installed a few backups to test. I loaded Guitar Hero: Metallica and after the third song, the audio started skipping, but the song continued. It was near the end of the song, so I completed it, but then it froze and went black.
I read that some people had suggested going back to rev9, so I did so and encountered the same problem. At this point, I thought maybe I had formatted incorrectly, so I reformatted the entire drive, made sure FAT32 drive for wii games was primary partition, reformatted it to WBFS with usb loader and tried again and this time it failed during the first song.
I decided to try another game to see if it was maybe just guitar hero, but experienced the same difficulty with Boom Blox and Trivial Pursuit.
I've been trying to find rev11, as I've heard several individuals state that it's more stable and has corrected problems similar to mine, but have not been able to locate it. I obtained rev13 last night and also reformatted my HDD and used OzzGee's USB Loader CFG this time to format my drive to WBFS and used WBFS manager 3.0 to install Wii music. I loaded the game with OzzGee's loader and Wii music ran fine. I had been concerned that my external drive was having a spindown problem, so I let the game run for about 15 minutes before I started playing and proceeded to play for about 20 minutes with absolutely no problems.
Feeling that rev13 or using a different loader had resolved the problem, I loaded up trivial pursuit and played for about 10 minutes before it crashed in the usual manner (controller vibrates, music stops and players icon starts bobbing up and down as if controller is disconnected, although still on. returning to the Wii menu is an available option, but results in black screen when attempted).
I found the list of compatible HDDs and did not see mine or my enclosure on the list yet, but I wanted to try and narrow down whether or not it was a software issue before purchasing a new HDD or enclosure. I found a recommendation for some utilities to control for spin down which I'll be attempting tonight, but after this I feel I've exhausted my options.
Would rev11 possibly solve my problems? I've tried rev9, 10, and 13 now without resolution, otherwise I'm planning on getting a Toshiba 320 GB (model HDDR320E03X), which has been listed as working fine.
