I have searched through the forum posts looking for answers to my issues and I couldn't find any that helped me out clearly, so don't get all huffy if you saw this somewhere already.
i have a d2c drive wii (of which I am sure) wii worked fine before I put a d2c modchip with the wiiclip on it (presoldered from modchipcentral.com). After I did the wii wouldn't accept the disk, so i took it off, went in just fine. Took me a bit to figure that out, I was leerily about doing things with the wii...not too technical with that stuff. In the process I broke the plastic connector piece for the data ribbon that connects the drive to the other half. Electrical tape fixed it enough.
I think my drive is messed up. Putting aside from the tape job with the ribbon, could the modchip have messed the drive up? If the modchip is on or off i get a disk read error :(, and saying something about reading some turoubshotting manuel. When I have the modchip on the disk will also not eject.
Any ideas? Am i correct in thinking I need a new drive? I am getting in contact with modchipcentral.com and have the wiiclip sent back to be double looked over/replaced...
i think i found out what the issue is, i took the tape off the ribbon and just held it in place, lined it up with the plastic piece and just held it there. it loaded mario kart (original) fine until my hand twitched. I guess I should have been more careful...
would it be easier to fix that or buy a new drive?
I think the easiest will be to replace the drive (be sure to order one that's the same chipset though...) getting a hold of the ribbon is going to be tough (you'll probably spend the price of a drive on calls/time tracking down a ribbon)
see there is no issue with the ribbon, just the part that holds it to the dvd drive...just a quick question. for some reason when i access one of the channels it won't go back to the main menu...could that just be because of the drive?
If the only thing that I did to the wii was break that small brown plastic connector then the rest of the wii WILL be alright yes?
i just need to replace the drive?
the part i am pointing at orginally had this small part that clipped over it. the hinges on it broke, they were really crappy...bleh ah well. gonna get a new drive i think.
