I've had a Sundriver from the D2SUN group in my Wii for a long while now.
It has worked well, until the other day - when we tried testing Metroid Other M and some other dual layer content. Went to power the Wii unit up, and the Sun Driver made some unusual clicking noises and would no longer allow the Wii to power up. We tried quite a few things, then gave up - and removed the Sun Driver unit, then put the normal optical drive back in the Wii.
Unfortunately, it seems that Wii no longer allows Wiimotes to be sync'ed to it, and the unit has lost all it's time/BIOS/clock settings after the removal of the Sun Driver.
We've tried everything to get the Wiimote's to sync with the wii (all the hold for 20 second tricks, the 1+2 tricks, pairing with other consoles etc), but it appears (somehow) that whatever the Sun Driver did, seemingly damaged the wii. From what we can see, this isn't a bluetooth module issue with the wii either, because Wii's bootpath will actually not allow boot if a BT module has failed.
We are wondering if anyone has any suggestions about what could have gone wrong, or why the Sun Driver simply no longer starts. At this stage, it appears to have failed, and damaged our test wii in the process, or at very least, something is quite wrong in software. To that end, I have read stories of people doing odd things to System Menu IOS (IOS30?) that have damaged BT Control and syncing. Anyone familiar with that?
Thoughts/suggestions/ideas? At this stage, it's feeling like a mighty "semi-bricked" wii if the wiimotes can't talk to the unit!
Thanks for your time.
z
It has worked well, until the other day - when we tried testing Metroid Other M and some other dual layer content. Went to power the Wii unit up, and the Sun Driver made some unusual clicking noises and would no longer allow the Wii to power up. We tried quite a few things, then gave up - and removed the Sun Driver unit, then put the normal optical drive back in the Wii.
Unfortunately, it seems that Wii no longer allows Wiimotes to be sync'ed to it, and the unit has lost all it's time/BIOS/clock settings after the removal of the Sun Driver.
We've tried everything to get the Wiimote's to sync with the wii (all the hold for 20 second tricks, the 1+2 tricks, pairing with other consoles etc), but it appears (somehow) that whatever the Sun Driver did, seemingly damaged the wii. From what we can see, this isn't a bluetooth module issue with the wii either, because Wii's bootpath will actually not allow boot if a BT module has failed.
We are wondering if anyone has any suggestions about what could have gone wrong, or why the Sun Driver simply no longer starts. At this stage, it appears to have failed, and damaged our test wii in the process, or at very least, something is quite wrong in software. To that end, I have read stories of people doing odd things to System Menu IOS (IOS30?) that have damaged BT Control and syncing. Anyone familiar with that?
Thoughts/suggestions/ideas? At this stage, it's feeling like a mighty "semi-bricked" wii if the wiimotes can't talk to the unit!
Thanks for your time.
z