Wii U help needed please

[chadkuiper]

Its been a long time since ive used my wii u and i thought id try and do some stuff with it i was messing around and used wup gx2 installer and seen a donkey kong game or something of that nature listed so i tried to install to nand anyway the instal failed and i know now that i should not have tried to instal to the nand but i shut the wii u off for the night next day i turned it on and it makes it to the wii logo and music playing and restarts and repeats that in a loop i pressed a repeatedly and it let me into homebrew but all i have installed is the wup gx2 installer,coldboot haxchi installer,haxchi installer and nand dumper elf . i have no backup of my nand is it fixable from this point its not even connected to the internet but i could maybe put a ethernet cable in back to give it the connection it needs.

 

[SDIO]

What happens if you boot without SD in?

 

[chadkuiper]

What happens if you boot without SD in?

Then it does the same thing as with it in but i cant get into homebrew

 

[SDIO]

Then install ISFShax. AFTER you have ISFShax installed use the cbhc installer to uninstall CBHC and see if that helps.

 

[chadkuiper]

If i uninstall homebrew channel and it still does not fix my wii u i wont be able to load homebrew again will i

 

[SDIO]

No one told you to uninstall the homebrew launcher

 

[chadkuiper]

Sorry ive been out of the softmod thing for many years now what is CBHC then and do i just out this ISFShax onto my memory card put it back in and run it

 

[SDIO]

Install this and make sure it boots to the minute menu when you turn it on: https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-set-up-isfshax-stroopwafel.642258/

 

[chadkuiper]

Thanks for your help so far so good im at the start of the Booting part of the guide and unsure if i go ahead and Patch (sd) and boot IOS (slc) or what exactly i do from here i dont want to mess up again

Post automatically merged: Apr 26, 2026

so i ran the patch sd and boot ios and it does the same thing it did before i tried any of this but now theres purple lights on the system power button while its doing it

 

[SDIO]

Yes, you can use that to boot back into the system. Now ISFShax gives us an early entry point, in case things get worse or you also experience these problems without cbhc.

Post automatically merged: Apr 26, 2026

Can you check if Bluetooth controllers like a Wii mote work? It's possible that the Bluetooth module is bad and causing this

 

[chadkuiper]

Yes, you can use that to boot back into the system. Now ISFShax gives us an early entry point, in case things get worse or you also experience these problems without cbhc.

Post automatically merged: Apr 26, 2026

Can you check if Bluetooth controllers like a Wii mote work? It's possible that the Bluetooth module is bad and causing this

The remotes are working fine all new battery's and was using them with no issues right up until i messed the wii up

 

[chadkuiper]

any other ideas

 

[SDIO]

Dump the sys crash logs in minute, maybe we see something there

 

[chadkuiper]

will those be on the sd card from what ive already done or do i need to do something else first

 

[SDIO]

You need to run the dump sys crash logs option from the backup and restore menu in minute

 

[chadkuiper]

i added a zipped file

Post automatically merged: Apr 29, 2026

hope this is how i was supposed to do it

 

[chadkuiper]

Did you find anything in there thats stopping it from loading

 

[SDIO]

Something is crashing on the PPC side. I would try to uninstall CBHC with the CBHC installer and see if that helps.

 

[chadkuiper]

would it be that the game i tried to instal to nand taking up to much memory and making it crash is there something i can do to clear the memory i dont care if i lose saved files. i used chbc installer to uninstall CHBC already thats the first thing you told me to do should i try it again?

 

[SDIO]

You can use the payloader plugin to load into tiramisu, from where you can load the hbl again and ftp every where. From there you can delete.

I saw the failed install in the logs but didn't know that your problem started right after that