Comments on: Late Tuesday Poll: Ever Had Your Wii Repaired?

By: alfredo

alfredo — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:23:02 +0000

THANK YOU VERY MUCH Drangoniv i was getting worried and since my 1 year warranty or something like that XD is almost reaching an end i was even more petrified. so thank you again for explaining those things i encountered :]

oh and one question if i saved all my game data to an SD card and then erased them off the internal memory of the wii and stuck the SD card in would i still be able to have that memory of all those games? i hope that made sense HAHA.

thanks again :D

By: wiiboy101gezza

wiiboy101gezza — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:25:29 +0000

ITS MADE BY NINTENDO NUFF SAID AMASING BUILD QUOLITY COUGH BILL GATES COUGH SONY

By: Dragoniv

Dragoniv — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:45:12 +0000

Clicking sound–very present on both Guitar Hero and NFS Pro Street. What that is is simply the DVD head jumping back and forth over the media. Read: very poor layout of files on the disc, which causes unnecessary wear and tear on the drive. It’s not a sign of failure, though, so no worries.

Fans make whirring sounds typically. Hissing sound might be the the disc brushing against the drive…that might be a problem, especially if the hissing sound doesn’t go away just after the disc goes in.

Word to the wise for preserving WiiSports: Not only back your game up to an SD card regularly, but also save the Miis you use on your Wiimotes, since records are tied to Miis in that game.

By: alfredo

alfredo — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:50:12 +0000

i dont know if this might need repairing but my wii makes a strange clicking sound during gameplay in games like guitar hero and harry potter OoTP. and when i put in a disc it makes a hissing sound (i think its the fan) so im worried i hope nothing goes wrong i have alot of games that took me weeks to pass and i just got pro in golf in wii sports which was pretty hard to do XD

By: Mario

Mario — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:01:30 +0000

Mine also started making that drilling sound one month ago, after exactly one year from purchase.
I haven’t contacted Nintendo yet but I’ll do it right now, before my three months warranty extension expires.

By: teedub

teedub — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:12:45 +0000

Had ours repaired in May for the strange video issues. Our Miis were rendered uneditable, but all other information remained intact and I just had to re-download my VC games. Even my Wii Points and saved games were still there. I’d still backup everything you can on an SD card. Only took a few weeks, and the service was great.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:14:36 +0000

The only “motors” that are in the unit would be the fan. A bit of compressed air blown into the breather holes may do the trick of stopping this.

By: Dragoniv

Dragoniv — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:17:33 +0000

Our launch day Wii died just after Christmas 2006–and with a gaming birthday party coming up for my son in the third week of January, things were looking pretty grim.

However, Nintendo managed to turn it around in just over two weeks, and the unit arrived the day of the party. We lost all our progress in Wii Sports, mostly because our only SD backup was shortly after we got the unit, and of course we lost all of our Miis. However, several of them traveled back to our new unit after apparently visiting some of the folks we had linked our old unit to. Pretty funny–we have a few Mii twins now.