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Joelcool7 on 17 July 2009
peachbuggy said:
Reading through all these replies a couple of these things have happened to me. My Wii went for repairs shortly after i got Smash Bros. as it couldn't read the disc. It worked with Smash Bros. for a while afterwards but then gave up the ghost with it again. So i just used another Wii to play it. My Wii is very noisy now, though, especially when i am playing Animal crossing and on a few occasions has displayed a message saying it can't read the disc. Think it might be on the way out. I really should get round to formatting everything to an sd card. I do live in a "smoking house" though. Don't think the Wii likes being a passive smoker!

My Wii is humming so loud that I have to turn the volume up on the TV to drown it out. I know its on its last legs. I blew the system out with a vaccuum. With no success, I don't know whats wrong but I really hope my console doesn't bite the dust anytime soon. I'll send it in when Nintendo releases the next Wii. Hopefully my Wii makes it to 2011 without breaking down I don't want to loose it for a month or however long it will take to get it fixed.



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DeltaXIII on 17 July 2009

Mine said that once too. The system worked fine when I fully turned it off, unplugged it and plugged it back in. A few months later, it began freezing upon startup though (perhaps related to the update). Now it can't get to the system menu without going to the support/management mode, so I have no message center and can't access the Nintendo channel since it tries to access the message center to send usage data. Since I can still play games prefectly fine on it, I backed up all of what was on it on the SD card and just run it in that mode when I want to play. I'm hoping a system update later makes it work normally again. I mean, obviously there isn't any direct hardware problem for the menu or games since I can still do both fine in the support mode. Maybe somehow the regular menu's install corrupted while updating.



 

ramuji on 18 July 2009
DaSimkin said:

The error was something like "SYSTEM MEMORY IS CORRUPT, PLEASE CHECK YOUR TROUBLE SHOOTING GUIDE"

This happened to me tonight. I tried turning the Wii off and back on several times, but the error message came up every time. Finally I tried unplugging the power to get the system "completely" off (i.e., "red light" off, not "yellow light" off), and then it started up fine after that. The very first thing I did was back up all of my game saves to SD card. Some game saves cannot be copied or moved to SD card, however (mostly games with online components, I believe). Anyone know why the system is designed that way?



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puffy on 19 July 2009
ramuji said:
DaSimkin said:

The error was something like "SYSTEM MEMORY IS CORRUPT, PLEASE CHECK YOUR TROUBLE SHOOTING GUIDE"

This happened to me tonight. I tried turning the Wii off and back on several times, but the error message came up every time. Finally I tried unplugging the power to get the system "completely" off (i.e., "red light" off, not "yellow light" off), and then it started up fine after that. The very first thing I did was back up all of my game saves to SD card. Some game saves cannot be copied or moved to SD card, however (mostly games with online components, I believe). Anyone know why the system is designed that way?


@the bolded: I'd assume Nintendo are trying to block hackers of online multiplayer games. 

OT: That's really unlucky man.. None of my Nintendo consoles have ever broken: NES, SNES, N64, Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Colour, GameCube, DS Phat, Wii.. All alive.. I did have a PS1 for 3 months and that broke so I do know how it feels though.. I think Wii would be Nintendo's most fragile console though but still.. bad luck man..