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PSwii60 on 20 July 2010

whoa, maintenance mode?! when i get home i'm definitely going to exploring that (hidden) feature.. or whatever it may be..

also, can you back up animal crossing (w/o ever using homebrew or modding ur wii)?



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Heart Nade on 20 July 2010
PSwii60 said:

whoa, maintenance mode?! when i get home i'm definitely going to exploring that (hidden) feature.. or whatever it may be..

also, can you back up animal crossing (w/o ever using homebrew or modding ur wii)?


I wasn't there when my brothers did this... so you'll have to wait 'till my brother gets home and/or is unbanned...



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superchunk on 20 July 2010

You stated that you had to reinstall firmware and use your "PIN"... What and where is your PIN for your Wii?



Heart Nade on 20 July 2010
superchunk said:

You stated that you had to reinstall firmware and use your "PIN"... What and where is your PIN for your Wii?


He probably was referring to the lock he put so my youngest brother can't play the M-rated games we've bought on it (No More Heroes and MadWorld to name a few)



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mike_intellivision on 20 July 2010

I used to have this problem on occassion (the "System Files Corrputed" message would appear. (A hard system reset usually would take care of the problem). Interestingly, I don't think I have had it since I removed the PIN that I had placed on there to limit my 7-year-old son from playing inappropriate games. 

Now my only concern is an increasingly noisy disk drive. Maybe I need to break out my Power Saves in case I ever need to send the unit away for repair (and yes, SSBB, I am looking at you)

 

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Heart Nade on 20 July 2010
mike_intellivision said:

I used to have this problem on occassion (the "System Files Corrputed" message would appear. (A hard system reset usually would take care of the problem). Interestingly, I don't think I have had it since I removed the PIN that I had placed on there to limit my 7-year-old son from playing inappropriate games. 

Now my only concern is an increasingly noisy disk drive. Maybe I need to break out my Power Saves in case I ever need to send the unit away for repair (and yes, SSBB, I am looking at you)

 

Mike from Morgantown

Lol, hmm, well it hasn't happened again to my knowledge, but if it does, I'll tell him to disable that too. And apparently system resets weren't working

LOL, my brother vacuums out our Wii every once in a while, same with our Xbox and all of our PC's, makes them all MUCH quieter and cooler (the Wii is silent after, only has a little noise before).

The Wii is in an entertainment center because our mom makes us keep it in there because she thinks otherwise it would look "trashy" which only makes it worse -_- So maybe try a little vacuum action?



I'm not really a chick I'm a dude... I just clicked random 5#17 on the sign-up page and now I can't change it back... -_-

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1st-place Runner up of the VgChartz MadWorld Contest!!! w00t w00t!!!

superchunk on 20 July 2010
Heart Nade said:
mike_intellivision said:

I used to have this problem on occassion (the "System Files Corrputed" message would appear. (A hard system reset usually would take care of the problem). Interestingly, I don't think I have had it since I removed the PIN that I had placed on there to limit my 7-year-old son from playing inappropriate games. 

Now my only concern is an increasingly noisy disk drive. Maybe I need to break out my Power Saves in case I ever need to send the unit away for repair (and yes, SSBB, I am looking at you)

 

Mike from Morgantown

Lol, hmm, well it hasn't happened again to my knowledge, but if it does, I'll tell him to disable that too. And apparently system resets weren't working

LOL, my brother vacuums out our Wii every once in a while, same with our Xbox and all of our PC's, makes them all MUCH quieter and cooler (the Wii is silent after, only has a little noise before).

The Wii is in an entertainment center because our mom makes us keep it in there because she thinks otherwise it would look "trashy" which only makes it worse -_- So maybe try a little vacuum action?


You really shouldn't use a vacuume on computers of any sort due to static electricity build up from the vacuum.

Use a compressed air can.



SnesTea on 20 July 2010

I just tried the maintence mode as described in the OP and it actually worked! Pretty cool.



Heart Nade on 20 July 2010
superchunk said:
Heart Nade said:
mike_intellivision said:

I used to have this problem on occassion (the "System Files Corrputed" message would appear. (A hard system reset usually would take care of the problem). Interestingly, I don't think I have had it since I removed the PIN that I had placed on there to limit my 7-year-old son from playing inappropriate games. 

Now my only concern is an increasingly noisy disk drive. Maybe I need to break out my Power Saves in case I ever need to send the unit away for repair (and yes, SSBB, I am looking at you)

 

Mike from Morgantown

Lol, hmm, well it hasn't happened again to my knowledge, but if it does, I'll tell him to disable that too. And apparently system resets weren't working

LOL, my brother vacuums out our Wii every once in a while, same with our Xbox and all of our PC's, makes them all MUCH quieter and cooler (the Wii is silent after, only has a little noise before).

The Wii is in an entertainment center because our mom makes us keep it in there because she thinks otherwise it would look "trashy" which only makes it worse -_- So maybe try a little vacuum action?


You really shouldn't use a vacuume on computers of any sort due to static electricity build up from the vacuum.

Use a compressed air can.


Are you afraid of it erasing the HDD? Idk, my dad is a real big tech guy and he first showed my brother XD



I'm not really a chick I'm a dude... I just clicked random 5#17 on the sign-up page and now I can't change it back... -_-

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1st-place Runner up of the VgChartz MadWorld Contest!!! w00t w00t!!!

superchunk on 20 July 2010
Heart Nade said:
superchunk said:
Heart Nade said:
mike_intellivision said:

I used to have this problem on occassion (the "System Files Corrputed" message would appear. (A hard system reset usually would take care of the problem). Interestingly, I don't think I have had it since I removed the PIN that I had placed on there to limit my 7-year-old son from playing inappropriate games. 

Now my only concern is an increasingly noisy disk drive. Maybe I need to break out my Power Saves in case I ever need to send the unit away for repair (and yes, SSBB, I am looking at you)

 

Mike from Morgantown

Lol, hmm, well it hasn't happened again to my knowledge, but if it does, I'll tell him to disable that too. And apparently system resets weren't working

LOL, my brother vacuums out our Wii every once in a while, same with our Xbox and all of our PC's, makes them all MUCH quieter and cooler (the Wii is silent after, only has a little noise before).

The Wii is in an entertainment center because our mom makes us keep it in there because she thinks otherwise it would look "trashy" which only makes it worse -_- So maybe try a little vacuum action?


You really shouldn't use a vacuume on computers of any sort due to static electricity build up from the vacuum.

Use a compressed air can.


Are you afraid of it erasing the HDD? Idk, my dad is a real big tech guy and he first showed my brother XD


http://www.computerhope.com/cleaning.htm

Read #2 on 'general cleaning tips'

http://www.wikihow.com/Clean-the-Inside-of-a-Computer

Read warnings.

http://www.wiscocomputing.com/articles/maintenance.htm

Look for header talking about using vacuums

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-11319_7-6240575-6.html

2nd paragraph

http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/2009/s2010/34s10/34s10.asp

Almost half way down page in 'the case' section

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/263185-28-vaccum-clean-computer

forum of smart people

Sure you'll find sites where people say they do it all the time, but it makes perfect sense when you think about it. Vacuums create static electricity and that static electricity can destroy the components. I can of air is not expensive and does a really good job.

 

BTW: I'm a 10 year veteran of software engineering and been a pretty big computer geek for most of my life.