Hacking WiiU with broken disc drive

[hasenpanzer]

So, I got a WiiU for free, but it had a broken disc drive. But I didn't really care, since I already had one and just wanted to use the other one for homebrew. The only thing, that happens, when I turn the console on is a slow-blinking red light.
When I took the drive out, the console worked normally, only problem was, that it noticed the missing drive and showed an error message. I read, that it should've worked, if I just connected the board of the disc drive to the console, but it just showed the red light again.
I think the problem is, that the previous owner already swapped the disc drive out once, but didn't leave his old board in it.
After reading a bit about it online, I found out, the board has a key which has to be the same one as the one in the console. It's on the SEEPROM.
Is there any way I can change the code on either the console or the drive? Or let the console at least think the key is the right one maybe without even having the disc drive in it, since, again, I don't need it..?
I really hope someone can help me with this, because otherwise, I would probably have to throw the console away..

 

[Ryccardo]

If your guess is right (the optical drive controller was replaced), you can't really do anything - you can't figure out the current drive's key (the main purpose of this system is to obstruct ODEs and connecting the drive to a dumper, requiring people with broken drives to pay for official service is "just a nice side effect"), you probably can't write to the eeprom anyway without the ability to run software on the console, and making the console not require an optical drive is not necessarily possible with the current hacks, depending on where it is checked...

A defective system is not necessarily broken in all its parts, and not always a system is worth more than its parts - especially as all people with a wiiu without gamepad complaining about not being able to install their Fr33 G4m3z show

 

[masgames38]

You could always mod it and still use it with other stuff. For example, GameCube emulation, Wii emulation, or even ripped Wii U games.
Just saying, it's better than throwing it away.

 

[piratesephiroth]

So, I got a WiiU for free, but it had a broken disc drive. But I didn't really care, since I already had one and just wanted to use the other one for homebrew. The only thing, that happens, when I turn the console on is a slow-blinking red light.
When I took the drive out, the console worked normally, only problem was, that it noticed the missing drive and showed an error message. I read, that it should've worked, if I just connected the board of the disc drive to the console, but it just showed the red light again.
I think the problem is, that the previous owner already swapped the disc drive out once, but didn't leave his old board in it.
After reading a bit about it online, I found out, the board has a key which has to be the same one as the one in the console. It's on the SEEPROM.
Is there any way I can change the code on either the console or the drive? Or let the console at least think the key is the right one maybe without even having the disc drive in it, since, again, I don't need it..?
I really hope someone can help me with this, because otherwise, I would probably have to throw the console away..

well you cannot do anything unless someone finds a workaround that makes the console boot without a functional optical drive