I'm one of the lucky few who's wii decided to bite it. No More Heroes comes out tomorrow, guess who's playing it. NOT ME. I went to play some Smash Bros Melee (thanks to stupid Benkenobi...) and when I turned it on, it locked up on the channel screen after about 5 seconds. Rebooted it, same deal. Tried again, didn't even make it past the "press A" screen. Won't play for more than a few seconds.

 My friend was playing RE:4 the Sunday and left it on Standby (why won't he learn to turn it off!?) And I didn't notice until just now. It was pretty warm, but I used to leave it on standby for weeks at a time before I learned that it wasn't actually off. Now it won't play. DAMNIT ALL TO HELL.

 I'll call Nintendo tomorrow and hopefully they will just fix it hassle free. I better have it back before March though or I will be damn pissed! More than I already am I mean!

Do you have any other systems to play while it's gone?

I've never had a problem with the stanby mode. Mine has been on standby (or on) since launch.

Sucks to hear that....the good thing is I heard Nintendo customer service is pretty quick.

I always leave mine on Standby. I'm really sorry that happened to you. If it's any consolation, my Gamecube stopped working before I got my Wii, so I couldn't play any Gamecube games for months.

I don't think there really is a standby problem. Mine has been in standby mode any time I'm not playing since launch.  And I've had periods of time that I haven't played for a couple weeks.

Sorry to hear though.  I've only heard good things about Nintendo's customer service too though

I don't think the standby thing is a rampant problem, but I've heard a few stories. And seeing as how it worked fine two days ago, was on standby, no longer working, makes me kind of blame that.

I went to their support site, and luckily it looks like I'm still under warranty (I knew I should be, but I never trust companies and their warranties) and after filling out a small form they sent me a confirmation e-mail saying they will mail me a UPS box to ship them my wii in. According to the message it will take 4-10 days to get the box, then when they receive it, it will take 7-10 days to repair, and then they will send it back. So I'm looking at a good 2-3 weeks, wiiless.

Damn. I do have my PC, so I guess I'll just catch up on some stuff I missed. I never did get bioshock, I guess I'll get that instead of NMH for now. Damn, I wanted me some No More Heroes though.

 Assuming you have a spare box and some tape you can just ask for a shipping label and shave a few days off the process.

Yeah, but seeing as how you used to leave it on standby for weeks at a time and it only just now failed, I think it's just a coincidence that it happened to be on standby just before it failed.  I also don't think there's a problem with WiiConnect24, because I haven't seen any real evidence for it.

Stop by my thread later and share your experience with Nintendo support. 

Well I'm pissed and I can blame whatever I want, even if it's magic spaghetti wizards destroying my wii!

I will stop by later after I've gotten my wii back, and comment on your thread.

I had a 9 day turnaround (including the weekend) when I returned mine. The longest part was the time it was in the post.