Help w/ Nintendo Wii that won't start

[napes22]

I hadn't played (or even turned on my Wii) for close to 4 months. I tried to turn it on the other day and the light turns green as if it was booting and nothing happens. The disc doesn't spin, nothing outputs to the screen or speakers. I've also tried turing on the wii with a Wiimote. Weirdly, the only way to turn it off after this happens is to shut it off completely by holding down power untill it goes red.

Any advice?

 

[Queasy]

Call Nintendo Support.

 

[RyanPaulShaffer]

Originally posted by: Queasy
Call Nintendo Support.

And have your credit card ready for when Nintendo is going to charge you a hefty fee + shipping to repair your Wii!

 

[napes22]

Originally posted by: Queasy
Call Nintendo Support.

I was hoping to avoid this, since I know they charge $80 plus shipping to get it fixed

 

[SirChadwick]

I had something similar happen, but I believe it was due to overheating my Wii in a tiny space.

I just took out the a/c power adapter, held down the power button for 20 seconds, let it sit overnight....

Plugged it back up in the morning and it hasn't really given me fits since.

It does lock up from time to time, but not a major annoyance - just brings me back to the old school NES days (but I had to blow in the cartridge then).

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: napes22

Originally posted by: Queasy
Call Nintendo Support.

I was hoping to avoid this, since I know they charge $80 plus shipping to get it fixed

they will lower IF you complain. just don't expect it back fixed right.

if i known how much trouble i would have with my WIi i would NEVER have purchased it.

 

[amheck]

Try unpluging the power brick from both the wall and console. Mine wouldn't turn on one day and went to the Nintendo support page and the first option was to reset the adapter. I thought it was dead, but that little trick worked!

 

[acheron]

Originally posted by: amheck
Try unpluging the power brick from both the wall and console. Mine wouldn't turn on one day and went to the Nintendo support page and the first option was to reset the adapter. I thought it was dead, but that little trick worked!

Yeah, that happened to me too once, and resetting the power brick fixed it. I feel like there was another step other than just unplugging the power brick, but maybe not. The Nintendo Support site has the information.

 

[napes22]

Thanks; I unplugged it this morning. I'll try to see if it works again tomorrow (fingers crossed)