Picked up a Wii console for a song (ie. free), previous owner said it had no video and he wasn't wrong. Completely disassembled the console to give it a thorough cleaning... extremely dusty inside and noted that the plastic air intake grill on the (vertical) bottom of the Wii was almost completely clogged with dust (never seen that before ...). Beginning to suspect overheating may have been the issue.
So, fully cleaned and carefully reassembled, same issue ... there is no video signal. To be clear, not a black screen ... just no signal. Power supply and video cables both tested with a known good Wii.
From standby red LED, turns on (green LED) and DVD drive whirs twice as usual (blue drive LED blinks once). Cooling fan is spinning. Need to press and hold the power button for several seconds to turn the Wii off.
Holding "reset" when powering on has no effect (I have no information as to whether or not this Wii had been modded in the past). Tried using a modified Gamecube controller in port 4 to enter maintenance mode, but no effect. The drive will accept a DVD, but does not spin it up once inserted (it will spin it up if the DVD is in the drive at power-on) ... "Eject" will eject the disk. Also, can't get a Wiimote to sync at all.
Been Googling it like crazy for the past several days, tried everything I could find, but still no dice. Kind of annoyed that I can't find a solution given that it doesn't "seem" to be completely toast, but I'm almost resigned to the fact that this one could actually be a hardware failure ... however, too stubborn to give up just yet.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be very welcome ... I'll be the first one to admit that I'm still learning. Please let me know if you need more info as well.
Many thanks for any assistance ... cheers!
So, fully cleaned and carefully reassembled, same issue ... there is no video signal. To be clear, not a black screen ... just no signal. Power supply and video cables both tested with a known good Wii.
From standby red LED, turns on (green LED) and DVD drive whirs twice as usual (blue drive LED blinks once). Cooling fan is spinning. Need to press and hold the power button for several seconds to turn the Wii off.
Holding "reset" when powering on has no effect (I have no information as to whether or not this Wii had been modded in the past). Tried using a modified Gamecube controller in port 4 to enter maintenance mode, but no effect. The drive will accept a DVD, but does not spin it up once inserted (it will spin it up if the DVD is in the drive at power-on) ... "Eject" will eject the disk. Also, can't get a Wiimote to sync at all.
Been Googling it like crazy for the past several days, tried everything I could find, but still no dice. Kind of annoyed that I can't find a solution given that it doesn't "seem" to be completely toast, but I'm almost resigned to the fact that this one could actually be a hardware failure ... however, too stubborn to give up just yet.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be very welcome ... I'll be the first one to admit that I'm still learning. Please let me know if you need more info as well.
Many thanks for any assistance ... cheers!