Hardware Wii does not eject discs correctly

[Abaw245]

Hello everyone, recently a friend of mine gifted me his childhood Wii as a birthday present and while the front part was loose and the plastic was a little broken all the components inside were fine so it wasn't hard to snap them back in place.

However there's this issue where if I eject a disc, instead of it stopping halfway through it comes out entirely and if I don't catch it in time it falls on the ground. Does anyone know where exactly the damage was caused so I can look further into fixing it? Thank you.

 

[a_username_that_is_cool]

Hello everyone, recently a friend of mine gifted me his childhood Wii as a birthday present and while the front part was loose and the plastic was a little broken all the components inside were fine so it wasn't hard to snap them back in place.

However there's this issue where if I eject a disc, instead of it stopping halfway through it comes out entirely and if I don't catch it in time it falls on the ground. Does anyone know where exactly the damage was caused so I can look further into fixing it? Thank you.

I am not very knowledgeable about the Wii Internals but is there like a light sensor? Is that not working? It would make sense (it usually stops after the hole in the disk)

 

[SylverReZ]

I am not very knowledgeable about the Wii Internals

Then, don't post it? Unless it is the LED on the Eject button?

However there's this issue where if I eject a disc, instead of it stopping halfway through it comes out entirely and if I don't catch it in time it falls on the ground. Does anyone know where exactly the damage was caused so I can look further into fixing it? Thank you.

I recommend replacing the disc drive with one from a donor console or a refurbished unit - whichever you can afford the most. All Wii disc drives are compatible; there's no requirement that it needs, it's not encrypted to the console in the same way as the 360, you take it out and replace the drive that way.

This saves you plenty of headaches and weeks or months of troubleshooting.

 

[Abaw245]

I am not very knowledgeable about the Wii Internals but is there like a light sensor? Is that not working? It would make sense (it usually stops after the hole in the disk)

Are you talking about the blue light that appears when you eject? If so then it is working as intended, it's just the disc drive that doesn't stop when it's supposed to and keeps pushing the disc out.

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Then, don't post it?


I recommend replacing the disc drive with one from a donor console or a refurbished unit - whichever you can afford the most. All Wii disc drives are compatible; there's no requirement that it needs, it's not encrypted to the console in the same way as the 360, you take it out and replace the drive that way.

This saves you plenty of headaches and weeks or months of troubleshooting.

Well yes, that seems to be the most efficient choice. My question is, what could have been damaged inside the disc drive that caused this behavior? All the other components that received more direct damage look fine.

 

[Aep]

I am not very knowledgeable about the Wii Internals but is there like a light sensor? Is that not working? It would make sense (it usually stops after the hole in the disk)

Send me a video?