Broken Wii

crujones4life · May 20, 2008

My Wii won't power on. I bought a new power supply and it still won't power on. What do I do now? I got it launch day, so I am sure it is out of warranty. Fuck this sucks... :crying:

crujones4life · May 20, 2008

I just remembered the power went out in my house the other day for a split second...could this have fried my system? Anybody else have this problem? :help:

Craig · May 20, 2008

crujones4life said:
I just remembered the power went out in my house the other day for a split second...could this have fried my system? Anybody else have this problem?

Was it hooked up to a surge protector?

Maybe the breakers tripped?

Have you tired plugging anything else into the outlet?

crujones4life · May 20, 2008

I have my ps3, tv, sat, dvd all plugged into the same power strip and they all still work fine. The wii won't power on in any outlet at all....

dogtoy · May 20, 2008

If you got it from wal-mart put it back in the box and take it back. When they say it's been too long, bitch about them not standing behind their products and if that doesn't work ask for the manager and keep bitching till they swap it with a new one.

It will work, I did the exact same thing after a storm took out my ps2 that I got at launch a few years ago. It was on a surge protector too.

It's also possible that the only damage is in the power supply inside the wii. You might be able to crack it open and just replace the power supply PCB to get it working again. Did that with a Dreamcast once.

cheers,
-DT

dannywhac · May 21, 2008

Wii's haven't got internal psus - whats prolly happened is one of the internal fuses on the powerline inside the Wii's blown.

If you can't return the Wii, get a multimeter out on the fuses inside the Wii, and replace the blown one.

Hewitson · May 21, 2008

Surely the fuses would be in the PSU.. I suggest opening that up and taking a look.

dannywhac · May 21, 2008

Na - he's already said he'd tried a new psu.

Theres fuses that carry power to both the mobo and the dvd drive within the Wii - power surges can pop 'em - theres a few tuts on the net about fixes. Personally recommend as DT said, to try and exchange it first.

channelmaniac · May 21, 2008

Hewitson said:
Surely the fuses would be in the PSU.. I suggest opening that up and taking a look.

Surely NOT!

You NEED fuses in there in case someone plugs in the wrong power supply!

Xian Xi · May 21, 2008

Do you by chance have a gamecube memory card plugged into it?

Hewitson · May 21, 2008

channelmaniac said:
You NEED fuses in there in case someone plugs in the wrong power supply!

Why would they? :conf:

I guess I underestimate the stupidity of people at times.

SNKNostalgia · May 21, 2008

Try removing any Gamecube memory cards out of it. I think you just wait for a while with it unplugged or something and then power it on later. This is what made my friend's system work again. It is fucking weird.

crujones4life · May 23, 2008

Lets have a moment of silence for teh passing of my Wii :crying:

.....Okay that's long enough. I sent it in to Nintendo with a check for $82.50 to have it fixed. Turnaround time is 9 to 11 days. Better than $250...

BTW no gamecube memory cards have ever been in my Wii and I already tried leaving it disconnected for a long period of time and reconnecting it, still nothing...it died.

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