Hardware Wii Repairs - Artifacts

[Raiser]

Raiser: Artifacting is when there are little graphical glitches in the display. In recorded videos, these are obvious when you have a bad encode because it causes odd pixelation. When 3d hardware starts to break down, it does something similar only it's generally more obvious (instead of pixelation it's random colored pixels that are generally pretty bright and contrast a lot with everything else)

Yuck. Thanks for the insight.

What is it usually caused by? Wouldn't want to encounter this with a hacked Wii...

 

[afnuke]

Its caused by a GPU thats been overheated and isnt working properly anymore. Theres no real fix for it but to get a whole new board.

 

[WiiPower]

Raiser: Artifacting is when there are little graphical glitches in the display. In recorded videos, these are obvious when you have a bad encode because it causes odd pixelation. When 3d hardware starts to break down, it does something similar only it's generally more obvious (instead of pixelation it's random colored pixels that are generally pretty bright and contrast a lot with everything else)

Yuck. Thanks for the insight.

What is it usually caused by? Wouldn't want to encounter this with a hacked Wii...

It's caused by WiiConnect24, which a lot of people think it's a standby more. In that mode the Wii's 2nd processor is running at 100% all the time, but the fans are not running, the rest is imagination.