Hello!
This is a long story, but it’s probably best to get into everything that’s happened with my console. Would absolutely love some input! TDLR will be at the end.
Anyway, just at the beginning of the pandemic, I was really into Splatoon 2 and it made me want to play the original, so after many years of playing my Switch (I stopped playing my WiiU after it launched) I took it out of storage. It booted fine, however I kept encountering multiple error codes (the ones I recorded include 108-0035, 160-1710, 150-2031) and my console just kept freezing; although the more I’d shut it down and try again, the longer it’d go without freezing. At the time, I was thinking if I tried a system update, surely it’d fix the freezing, and I’m sure you could guess what happened.
At this point, I had called Nintendo customer support and they advised me to turn off my wifi and see if it would respond to it - it did not. Everything was frozen. I had no choice but to pull the plug and it was then on I would be trapped at the logo screen. They gave me the details to send in my console for repairs, but I did not have the money so I did not end up going through with it. About a year and a bit later, I tried again and I took it into a local EB games (yoo any aussies?!) to see what they could do before going to Nintendo. I got it back and they listed it as unrepairable; they listed the fault being system memory corruption caused by freezing mid-update, which was from motherboard failure (assuming from leaving it unpowered for so long).
Recent discussions of WiiU failure and unbricking has inspired me once more to get it fixed; I had seen Voultar’s video and, while I did not have those error codes, the core issue was ultimately the same - corrupted system memory. Worth a try, ya know. I don’t wanna throw my WiiU away. So I had bought a pico, which just arrived today, and I have been going through the steps. What happens though is once I insert the pico to the screen, my WiiU just instantly shuts down. I think saw a flash of the recovery boot screen before it’d do that, but otherwise I cannot progress. It still boots to the frozen WiiU screen if I don’t insert it, so the pico didn’t like kill it.
I’m really just thinking I screwed up in going to do a system update back then (honestly I really don’t know why I thought to do that), but I wanna rule out all options first.
Any thoughts from this?
TDLR; WiiU kept freezing after taking out of storage w/ codes 108-0035, 160-1710, 150-2031, froze mid system update, begun only booting to the logo screen; have been trying to go into recovery using UDIPH however inserting pico forces console to shut down.
This is a long story, but it’s probably best to get into everything that’s happened with my console. Would absolutely love some input! TDLR will be at the end.
Anyway, just at the beginning of the pandemic, I was really into Splatoon 2 and it made me want to play the original, so after many years of playing my Switch (I stopped playing my WiiU after it launched) I took it out of storage. It booted fine, however I kept encountering multiple error codes (the ones I recorded include 108-0035, 160-1710, 150-2031) and my console just kept freezing; although the more I’d shut it down and try again, the longer it’d go without freezing. At the time, I was thinking if I tried a system update, surely it’d fix the freezing, and I’m sure you could guess what happened.
At this point, I had called Nintendo customer support and they advised me to turn off my wifi and see if it would respond to it - it did not. Everything was frozen. I had no choice but to pull the plug and it was then on I would be trapped at the logo screen. They gave me the details to send in my console for repairs, but I did not have the money so I did not end up going through with it. About a year and a bit later, I tried again and I took it into a local EB games (yoo any aussies?!) to see what they could do before going to Nintendo. I got it back and they listed it as unrepairable; they listed the fault being system memory corruption caused by freezing mid-update, which was from motherboard failure (assuming from leaving it unpowered for so long).
Recent discussions of WiiU failure and unbricking has inspired me once more to get it fixed; I had seen Voultar’s video and, while I did not have those error codes, the core issue was ultimately the same - corrupted system memory. Worth a try, ya know. I don’t wanna throw my WiiU away. So I had bought a pico, which just arrived today, and I have been going through the steps. What happens though is once I insert the pico to the screen, my WiiU just instantly shuts down. I think saw a flash of the recovery boot screen before it’d do that, but otherwise I cannot progress. It still boots to the frozen WiiU screen if I don’t insert it, so the pico didn’t like kill it.
I’m really just thinking I screwed up in going to do a system update back then (honestly I really don’t know why I thought to do that), but I wanna rule out all options first.
Any thoughts from this?
TDLR; WiiU kept freezing after taking out of storage w/ codes 108-0035, 160-1710, 150-2031, froze mid system update, begun only booting to the logo screen; have been trying to go into recovery using UDIPH however inserting pico forces console to shut down.
