Originally posted by Dannon:

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After reading this whole thread carefully and trying every little thing mentioned I eventually had to sign up to give my story to see if any of you kind souls would have any advice:

I installed a clone Wiikey in July and everything was working fine, I bought SMG and backed it up in mid November, after a few weeks of playing several different backups it stopped working randomly, though originals still worked.

I took the Wii apart and found that one of the pads on the main board where one of the points was soldered on had come off, this was irritating but not worrying, I found a map of the layout from that point to the D2B chip and attached a small wire to the correct leg.

Well I tested it all, tested the connections from the Wiikey to the D2B chip and all the relevant points worked fine and nothing seemed to be shorted.

Only my original discs would work form this points forward.

I had a spare Wiikey, clone again, so I put this is in, and this should be technically brand new as it has not been used before. Upon installing this and checking all the connections again everything looks fine, there are no shorts and everything looks well. Unfortunately now neither orignals nor backups work, the only thing that does anything is putting in either the 1.2 or 1.3 boot disc and all they do is bring up the GC logo on the start screen and when I start I get the obligatory "Remove disc, turn off, etc..."

I have tried creating a few GCOS discs of my own and I have downloaded ones that other people have uploaded from psx-forums, I think they're actually on Rapidshare but that's neither here nor there.

So the current state:

My Wii is currently running the 3.1E firmware.
No backups work - Disc not recognised
No originals work - Disc not recognised
No boot discs work - tried 1.2 (should not work anyway as 3.1E installed) and 1.3, GC logo shows but "Remove disc, turn off, etc..." displayed when run
No update discs work - Disc not recognised, tried not 1.9b and 1.9g

Any suggestions? Please?

I am aware these are clones but I have done a few for friends and none of the others seemed to have failed. I have read a couple of reports that people have had problems similar to mine a few weeks after putting the 1.9g update on.

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Originally posted by Dannon:

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After reading this whole thread carefully and trying every little thing mentioned I eventually had to sign up to give my story to see if any of you kind souls would have any advice:

I installed a clone Wiikey in July and everything was working fine, I bought SMG and backed it up in mid November, after a few weeks of playing several different backups it stopped working randomly, though originals still worked.

I took the Wii apart and found that one of the pads on the main board where one of the points was soldered on had come off, this was irritating but not worrying, I found a map of the layout from that point to the D2B chip and attached a small wire to the correct leg.

Well I tested it all, tested the connections from the Wiikey to the D2B chip and all the relevant points worked fine and nothing seemed to be shorted.

Only my original discs would work form this points forward.

I had a spare Wiikey, clone again, so I put this is in, and this should be technically brand new as it has not been used before. Upon installing this and checking all the connections again everything looks fine, there are no shorts and everything looks well. Unfortunately now neither orignals nor backups work, the only thing that does anything is putting in either the 1.2 or 1.3 boot disc and all they do is bring up the GC logo on the start screen and when I start I get the obligatory "Remove disc, turn off, etc..."

I have tried creating a few GCOS discs of my own and I have downloaded ones that other people have uploaded from psx-forums, I think they're actually on Rapidshare but that's neither here nor there.

So the current state:

My Wii is currently running the 3.1E firmware.
No backups work - Disc not recognised
No originals work - Disc not recognised
No boot discs work - tried 1.2 (should not work anyway as 3.1E installed) and 1.3, GC logo shows but "Remove disc, turn off, etc..." displayed when run
No update discs work - Disc not recognised, tried not 1.9b and 1.9g

Any suggestions? Please?

I am aware these are clones but I have done a few for friends and none of the others seemed to have failed. I have read a couple of reports that people have had problems similar to mine a few weeks after putting the 1.9g update on.

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