![]() Google "wii gpu failure" and you get plenty of stuff like this.įor what it's worth, i paid $7.99 for my wii at a thrift store. Mine is glitchy, my previous one was glitchy, my friends is glitchy(and he manages a video game store, so he could swap it out for a new one whenever he wanted. Yea, i'm willing to bet this is a GPU failure issue. Or is it time to just accept that the Wii is dying? posted by roll truck roll to Technology (4 answers total) But I obviously don't want to buy a new Wii and have the same problem. Or is it time to just accept that the Wii is dying? How certain can I be that it's not a problem with the TV? I really don't want to upgrade to Wii U, as like 80% of my games are Gamecube games and Wii U isn't compatible with Gamecube. I'm using this low-end LCD TV.Īny solutions I haven't thought of? Would a Wii-to-HDMI converter do any good? Reviews of them online seem pretty mixed. I assumed that the cable was shot and ordered another one, but there was no change in behavior at all. This problem appeared after I'd been using a cable for a couple years. I'm using a generic component cable, as the Nintendo-licensed ones are kind of expensive. ![]() But the problem just started out of nowhere, after some time with no issue. Often, when it cuts out is when that white menu screen first comes on, or when I go from a game back to the menu. That would seem to be consistent with what I've been experiencing. Usually it comes back on for a second when I push a button, and then goes out again.Īccording to people in this thread, some TVs have difficulty recognizing very light signals. I know that the Wii is still functioning when that happens, because I can still move the Wiimote around and feel the rumble feedback. Just in the past month or so, it's started to have a bad problem with the picture just cutting out. Please let me know if you need more info as well. I'll be the first one to admit that I'm still learning. however, too stubborn to give up just yet.Īny thoughts or suggestions would be very welcome. Kind of annoyed that I can't find a solution given that it doesn't "seem" to be completely toast, but I'm almost resigned to the fact that this one could actually be a hardware failure. Also, can't get a Wiimote to sync at all.īeen Googling it like crazy for the past several days, tried everything I could find, but still no dice. The drive will accept a DVD, but does not spin it up once inserted (it will spin it up if the DVD is in the drive at power-on). Tried using a modified Gamecube controller in port 4 to enter maintenance mode, but no effect. Holding "reset" when powering on has no effect (I have no information as to whether or not this Wii had been modded in the past). Need to press and hold the power button for several seconds to turn the Wii off. Power supply and video cables both tested with a known good Wii.įrom standby red LED, turns on (green LED) and DVD drive whirs twice as usual (blue drive LED blinks once). ![]() So, fully cleaned and carefully reassembled, same issue. Beginning to suspect overheating may have been the issue. extremely dusty inside and noted that the plastic air intake grill on the (vertical) bottom of the Wii was almost completely clogged with dust (never seen that before. Completely disassembled the console to give it a thorough cleaning. free), previous owner said it had no video and he wasn't wrong.
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