i fix it two ci on drive board
I believe I know which ICs he is talking about :
You can see in one of the pictures that there is one IC that I'm pretty sure it is the memory ( RAM and you don't need to replace it, I did just for testing ) and in the other there is where the firmware ( and where the key would be recorded ) that IC is the one we are interested in.
If you are looking to fix yours just remove that IC where supposedly the firmware is from your original PCB and solder it into a new PCB ( make sure to buy a PCB that is the exact same model as yours ).
I CAN NOT guarantee that it will work, but I have read about people who replaced and it worked.
In my case when soldering the "Firmware IC" the console doesn't turn on it stays with a red light, if I replace it by the one from the new drive the console turns on and stuck with error 160-1402
I am 100% sure that the "Firmware IC" is faulty on my PCB, 'cause I have desoldered it several times to make sure that the problem was not into my soldering.
The idea behind this post is to find someone out there that has a Wii U and two drives to test this theory and confirm that it works and the ICs I'm mentioning are the right ones.
Also another possibility would be a software approach :
I have seen that is possible to dump SEEPROM & OTP and there we can find where the DVD drive key is stored and according to
@The Real Jdbye change it.
To bring my Wii U from the other-world I could do a hardmod and dump my SEEPROM, but the real challenge here would be dump the key from the new drive and rewrite it into my SEEPROM
OR spoof the key from my console into the new drive.
If anyone out there has an idea just let me know please
, 'cause I am jumping into a new project at the moment ( a lot of consoles to fix
) and I will keep this unit waiting for a solution.
Thanks Guys
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