I repaired my DS lite it took like a week the thing was like brand new

The Wii has a safe mode?

In what way is it different?

Oh, and I think everyone should know by now that if you have a problem with Nintendo produce, there is very rarely a bad point to sending it to Nintendo.

Did the hinge break? My DS's hinge is done, I have to hold the top screen up.........

My Wii was out of warranty and they fixed it free of charge and the turnaround was about 7-9 days. It was the optical reader problem so it might be a special scenario in being free.

The bad point is the cost , but I guess it can't be helped and now I do have enough money for it. There is a safe mode type thing. When you turn it on, instead of just pressing A to get past the initial screen, you press and hold down + and - and then press A, and it boots into maintenance mode. I don't know the specific differences other than my system would freeze in normal mode and maintenance mode doesn't allow you to access the message center, so I wonder if when I get it back, there will be like 10 new messages to read.

See, I figured that it's either like safe mode and disabled whatever it was that was freezing my Wii or it could be a whole second copy of the operating system and as such wasn't in whatever memory that may've been corrupted or anything. Either way it was working alright until now.

I sent my Wii in and got it back in 5 days.

It depends. I live about 15 minutes away from their national repair center so it was done within the day. It will probably take 7-10 days mostly due to shipping.

It'll take less than a week. Nintendo has fantastic customer service.

Never heard about this problem, till now

Did you try blowing on the disc and not pushing it in all the way?