Faulty Wii? Hardware issues?

[pbeesley]

I thought I was safe but I just had something strange this morning.

Tried turning on the wii using the power button on the wii-mote (as I always do) but nothing happened, so turned on using the actual power button, tried pressing 'A' on the wii-mote but nothing happened. All four lights just keep flashing.....tried syncing, tried everything else I could think of but no luck.

Fixed by turning off console then turning back on again!

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[doomlordis]

speaker in remote has gone , get bad static when playing any noise now!
Have never dropped remote, it is only a few days old.

[tuned]

Alrighty then, one more problem to add to the small list...

I was playing about an hour of Excite Truck, get off that and decide to check out the Forecast Channel, I try and exit and the controllers are off, no blue lights, no activity, nothing. I try re-syncing them with no luck... it ended up needing me to reset the entire system. Very annoying to say the least. Oh, and like posted above, all four lights on the remote were flashing for about five to ten seconds... so maybe it's a similar issue.

So far...
1. Controllers shutting off and not wanting to turn back on.
2. Freezing randomly, sometimes recovering, sometimes needing a reboot.
3. I am giving up slowly on Red Steel as this level has buggy controls, I have no idea why but every other level works just fine, in this one my character wants to spin endlessly.

[joebmc]

Only issues i've had are (so far)

1. wiimote (both) sometimes will not switch on at all, no 4 leds flashing nothing! To fix this i swap over batteries between the wiimotes and so far has worked each time.

2. wiimote losing sync, fix is a simple re-sync

[BBirdP]

I haven't played any others games besides Zelda, but after a bit of time it freezes. I can eject the disc, but the screen remains. My remote won't turn the Wii off nor can I manually turn it off. I have to unplug the power cord to shut it off. While its frozen the speakers just put out a constant noise, VERY unnatural. Anyone had this problem?

[tuned]

I haven't played any others games besides Zelda, but after a bit of time it freezes. I can eject the disc, but the screen remains. My remote won't turn the Wii off nor can I manually turn it off. I have to unplug the power cord to shut it off. While its frozen the speakers just put out a constant noise, VERY unnatural. Anyone had this problem?

Nope... but I have had similar freezing. If I were you, i'd be a little more patient and give the system at least a minute to restore itself, then unplug it if it can't recover itself. Avoid unplugging it if possible while it's on.

[simple]

I just got my wii today and have noticed a problem while playing Zelda. I think it may of done it on the wii menu as well, but since zelda is what I'm playing the majority of the time it is what I notice it on. Anyway, the problem is that randomly every couple second the video gets kinda jittery. It looks almost like I'm watching tv with some old rabbit ears. It's not extreme to the point where it goes to static, but it definitely is noticable. I double checked all the connections and it's still doing it. any ideas?

I get a similar problem, I get little lines on the screen and things like that. I rang the helpline and they said to try another cable. I'm pretty sure the problem isn't the cable. It could be software based but I am betting it is the hardware.

[avenue]

I just got a new Wii after my 'system files became corrupted' out of the blue. Now, I have to restart Zelda and other games I played. I also have to get new friends. Hit me up.

[BBirdP]

Nope... but I have had similar freezing. If I were you, i'd be a little more patient and give the system at least a minute to restore itself, then unplug it if it can't recover itself. Avoid unplugging it if possible while it's on.

I've wait for decently long periods of time and it doesn't restore.

[blackaneese3]

if you have internet wireless you should be able to download the internet hardware to go to websites.