First off my wii is modded with a wiikey2 and i'm currently using Softmii custom theme with 3.2u. My problems started this evening after work. I logged into the Check Mii Out Channel and it turned off instead. Then 5 min later it did the same thing, then again a few minutes later. It seems to do it randomly but usually after clicking a button and it fades to black and doesn't come back.

I'm not sure if clicking is normal coming from the wii after exiting to wii menu but mine makes little clicks maybe 4 or 5 times right after the main menu loads up. But not every time. Sometimes only once when the greyed out empty channel screens blink on just before the menu loading. Then once more. But other times it clicks more times as if it's looking for something. I'm not even sure what the clicking might be or if it's common across all wii's.

Earlier today I did install and erase several channels and have been trying out shortcut channels for apps residing on my SD card. Perhaps something got messed up during that process as they warn before use. Anyway, I had no issues before installing all the custom channels so I'm thinking that has something to do with it.

If anyone has had similar issues with random shutdowns or knows what might be causing my wii to shut down and knows of a solution, I'm All Ears!

Thanks for your time.

 

thanks for the fast reply.

It just did it again and I noticed it was clicking repeatedly during the black screen while the channel was loading. Then after it finally loaded it stayed on for a few seconds then shut down. Green light still on.

I'll do the upgrade/downgrade as suggested. But one question.

I have the downgrade utility but how do I go about upgrading? I've read not to do it through ninty. So what's the proper way to go about that?

 

Is the system randomly turning on and off independant of what you're doing? That is, if you sit still and did nothing would it turn off?

If so.. do NOT try to down or upgrade as your system may turn off and then brick your wii.

If it only happens when loading a channel or game, etc then it is probably fine to try that.

 

ok, I've tracked down the systemmenu289.iso but I'm not sure how to use it. Before download it's said to be a .wad but after dl it's an ISO. I burned it with Nero but it immediately freezes my menu when I put it in so I'm not sure how to use it or get the wad.

thanks for your help. Gonna get some sleep and tackle this fresh in the morning where I'm less likely to make a mistake.

 

use Trucha Signer or Wiiscrubber to extract the wad. It's in the update partition.

 

Holy Shiite, what a pain in the neck. I got the ISO and i get errors extracting using both Trucha and Wiiscrubber. Trucha says error decrypting image and Wiiscrubber give the IO error. I got the image from a reliable source and people are singing praises of how their wii's have been saved so I'm not sure what the problem is.

I need that frikkin wad!

 

Hopefully crisis averted. Reinstalled 3.2u with ARC and enabled most of the options in Starfall so hopefully the problem is fixed. Baby steps I didn't want to virginize my Wii if I didn't have to.

The Matrixfinal Theme was the only one that really blew me away.

Aside from the custom themes what other advantages are there to using Softmii?