Hardware Wii U No Power LED

[gudenau]

I recently got a Wii U to try and do some hard mods on, the problem is the Wii U does not have any indications of life. I plug it in and the power light does not even come on, when I press the power button it does not come on either. When I probe the board at the connector for voltage it shows ~14v and it works on my other Wii U so I know that it is not being shorted and that the power brick is in working order.

What should I do?

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[dpad_5678]

I recently got a Wii U to try and do some hard mods on, the problem is the Wii U does not have any indications of life. I plug it in and the power light does not even come on, when I press the power button it does not come on either. When I probe the board at the connector for voltage it shows ~14v and it works on my other Wii U so I know that it is not being shorted and that the power brick is in working order.

What should I do?

Spoiler: Pictures

If you have any soldering experience, maybe you could try unsoldering and resoldering in the power socket?

 

[gudenau]

If you have any soldering experience, maybe you could try unsoldering and resoldering in the power socket?

There is no need to do that, power gets to the board as I stated.

 

[dpad_5678]

There is no need to do that, power gets to the board as I stated.

Had the same issue with my Wii U and that fixed it. Power was reaching the MoBo on mine as well.

 

[Deleted User]

You sure you didn't just wrongly wire led indicator? There could be a possibility that just lights went dead

 

[gudenau]

Had the same issue with my Wii U and that fixed it. Power was reaching the MoBo on mine as well.

I suppose I could try that, bit I will wait to see if someone else has more debugging ideas to try and track the exact issue down.

You sure you didn't just wrongly wire led indicator? There could be a possibility that just lights went dead

I am sure that Nintendo did not wire the LED incorrectly, if they had I would think they would go back and fix it before sending it out.

 

[gudenau]

The LED gets 0v.

 

[gamesquest1]

I'm assuming the component marked (what looks like) F1004 is the fuse, check continuity on that, if the fuse is blown you could just replace/bypass that and see if it gets any further

 

[gudenau]

I'm assuming the component marked (what looks like) F1004 is the fuse, check continuity on that, if the fuse is blown you could just replace/bypass that and see if it gets any further

About 0Ω.

 

[guillaume633]

hello Gudeneau

Have you gone futrher in your investigations?
Since a couple of days, I have the exact same symptoms. I may buy a new motherboard but I will lost all my save in games.

would appreciate your help