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Title: Is your Wii hot to the touch?
Post by: markrvp on December 24, 2006, 02:18:40 pm

Went out of town yesterday and left the Wii plugged in with the power off.  When I got back today, the Wii console was warm to the touch - kind of like a USB hard drive enclosure.  Is this normal?  Why would it get hot when it's turned off?

Title: Re: Is your Wii hot to the touch?
Post by: ChadTower on December 24, 2006, 03:19:40 pm

Because it's not actually "off".  It is what you would more accurately call "standby".  It's an always on device like a Tivo.

Title: Re: Is your Wii hot to the touch?
Post by: JackTucky on December 24, 2006, 05:35:44 pm

Shouldn't discussion of red hot wii's be taken offline?

-J

Title: Re: Is your Wii hot to the touch?
Post by: drmlvr on December 25, 2006, 02:00:56 am

yea, mine is a little above warm-almost borders hot.  Especially on the left side, I guess where all the electronics are.  Have mine upright, wonder how hotter it would get if I lay it down horizontally???

Title: Re: Is your Wii hot to the touch?
Post by: ChadTower on December 25, 2006, 08:54:45 am

The system BIOS probably has a temp sensor you can get to from the GUI... most things like that do.

Title: Re: Is your Wii hot to the touch?
Post by: tommy on December 25, 2006, 05:09:07 pm

I unplug my power cable when i am not playing the console, they really should have made a total power off button IMO.

Title: Re: Is your Wii hot to the touch?
Post by: Samstag on December 26, 2006, 09:38:12 am

Quote from: tommy on December 25, 2006, 05:09:07 pm

I unplug my power cable when i am not playing the console, they really should have made a total power off button IMO.

Why don't you just turn off the standby-mode Wiiconnect24 option?

Title: Re: Is your Wii hot to the touch?
Post by: lcddream on December 26, 2006, 10:49:37 am

if you hold the power button until it turns red it will be off completely