Bricked my wii, I'm afraid - be careful

[ften]

If you live in the Georgia area I could take as look at it for you, as I have a clipped mod chip so it makes it easy to from one Wii to another and I have a real SaveMii so it just auto boots into recovery mode with out having to press anything.


-FTen

[RTSDaddy2]

Ften, I really appreciate that. PM coming your way.

[RTSDaddy2]

Well, a finale to this thread.

Ften and I managed to get together one evening last week for him to look at the Wii.  He brought every tool known to man and couldn't unbrick the thing.  So, off it went to Nintendo, and per what he told me, they didn't even bother with it past 24 hours....I'm getting a new one within just a few days, at a cost of $75.00 (well $85 if you count the 10 for shipping).  So screwed up was it that they couldn't even get in to tell what happened.

Has it deterred me from messing around with homebrew?  Do pigs fly?

It wasn't the homebrew programs that caused my problem folks, as I said, it was totally my fault.  Now that I KNOW what I need to ensure no more bricks, I'll probably be back at it within a few days.

Once again, to summarize:

1) Make sure you use preloader or bootmii installed as boot2 - install those first
2) Make sure you are using the RIGHT / COMPATIBLE SD card for boot mii
3) Make sure you back up your NAND file first before doing anything else.
4) Above all else, DO NOT DELETE ANY IOS Files!

I think that's everything!

(Dreamily)....sigh....soon I will be whacking balls with Tiger Woods again....

[hypernova]

Glad to see you back in the scene.

[RTSDaddy2]

We got our Wii back tonight!

Question though - it came back at menu version 3.3U, and whenever I put in Wii Sports resort, it bumped it up to 3.4U.  What menu version are they currently at, and what is the safest way for me to just get back to 4.0 (with SD card use)?

[Nipedley]

It's either 4.0 or 4.1 now, I forget. Easiest way is to just use the online update no?

Glad you got your wii back and working

[RTSDaddy2]

It's still 4.1 - I wasn't sure, because I saw where it had been updated as of 9/1/09, but did the system update to find out.

Nevertheless, looks like buying a second wii is still in my future.  One to keep active, one to tinker with seems to be the best bet.  My kid was so excited last night she didn't know what to do first!

[hypernova]

4.1 is still good and moddable.

Just stay away from the IOSes, yes?

[RTSDaddy2]

ABSOLUTELY Hyper!