Wii crashes/freezes whenever playing a disc game

[TheSegaKid]

Recently I've been having issues were my Wii just freezes into a black screen or loading screen when playing a game from the disc channel...this just started happening so I have no clue on what the cause could be. Please help

 

[Fien]

Is it not simply a worn disc drive/laser?

 

[TheSegaKid]

Here's the syscheck:

SysCheck ME v2.5.0 by blackb0x, JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199 and Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: PAL
System Menu 4.3E (v514)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 02.13.2007
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 81273016
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: United Kingdom (110)
Boot2 v4
Found 169 titles.
Found 57 IOS on this console. 6 of them are stubs.

IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS31 (rev 3608): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 3072): Stub
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS80 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS90 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS202[60] (rev 65535, Info: hermesrodries-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS222[38] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS223[38+37] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS224[57] (rev 65535, Info: hermesrodries-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS236 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, Beer Ticket
IOS245[37] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS246[38] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS247[53] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS248[55] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS249[56] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS251[58] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS253 (rev 21): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 10/08/2145.

Post automatically merged: Apr 2, 2024

Is it not simply a worn disc drive/laser?

No, the wii is in mint condition basically, the games don't work on disc channel but when using usbloadergx then they work fine

 

[KleinesSinchen]

No, the wii is in mint condition basically,

That sadly doesn't say much.

the games don't work on disc channel but when using usbloadergx then they work fine

Seems you already started process of elimination and suggests: bad drive.

Try dumping a good locking game disc with CleanRip. Is the drive able to do that?

Happened to one of my Wii consoles a few weeks ago. Was playing a disc game, suddenly Disc Read Error. Since then it would rarely boot up games from the drive and if it succeeds it goes DRE within a few minutes.
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I would really like to see a general troubleshooting+repair approach optical drives. Find out what is wrong with them instead of blindly following some advice to just increase laser power by messing with the potentiometer.

There are some nice videos online, made by talented people: They restored old (end of 1980s) Sony DiscMan or high end HiFi CD players. In those videos not the laser units have been faulty, but some or even all capacitors had to be replaced (in addition to mechanical problems for the moving parts (lubrication).
More often than not a working optical drive is associated with bad optical pickup (or just bad laser) – but how do we actually find and prove out what is wrong in order to repair it? I mean the usual suggestion: Just use USB loading works for the Wii – but it is not an answer to the questions: How to troubleshoot disc drives?