SO I followed the "new and improved softmod" thread at the top of this forum and succesfully installed homebrew, usb loader, hackmii, neogamma r6, etc and I was running fine. I had bought a refurb unit and the gamecube connections door wouldn't stay latched so I was going to return it for a new unit. So what I did was went into Homebrew..then into wad manager and removed usb loader, removed wads, removed neogamma...I believe these were all the options of things I had to remove in the wad manager inside of Homebrew. The Wii was running 4.1. I can't honestly what all I removed inside of wad manager, it was 3 different things.
After I uninstalled those few things in Wad Manager and rebooted the wii, I get no picture at all, no sound, NADA! I have held down the reset button, I have disconnected power for half an hour plugged it back in still get nothing. I can eject and insert games and it lights up blue briefly but I never get any sort of video output to the tv. I literally had this for 2 days and I'm in hopes there is something that can be done? I bought it refurb at Gamestop and got the 1year warranty. Can it be restored to a "like new" state?
Sorry for my ignorance, I have little to no experience with the Wii. A friend of mine had used the softmod and it worked well so I thought I'd give it a shot also. Any advice appreciated.
Sounds like you might have uninstalled an IOS with WAD Manger. You probably uninstalled IOS60Patched.wad which could cause a brick.
If you got a 1 year warranty with Game Stop then take it back and get a new one.
They probably won't even question it.
Just say nothing comes up anymore when you turn it on. Honestly Game Stop shouldn't make a big deal about it.
When you get a replacement system try installing Bootmii to boot2 if possible so you can recover from a brick. If you can only install it as an IOS then install Preloader .29 to the system. i recommend installing both anyway.
I'm pretty sure your right, I know I caused a brick and I am going into Gamestop tomorrow and don't intend on telling them I bricked it lol. They will just look at the sticker on it to make sure I didn't open the case and should replace it. Just for grins...what is this recovery disk I keep reading about? Is there anyways to get it back up? It obviously won't boot on it's own so the only way to get it back up would be to boot to some sort of disk..if that is even an option? I also read about using a gamecube controller to do some sort of recovery (I don't have one so I guess it don't matter)..
