Unbrick a Wii by installing a MOD Chip

Hi,

i used the search engine, did find some Threads on Wii brick repairs but couldn't find my question answered, i hope it's no double post!

So here's the deal, i got my girl a Wii got it softmodded by i guess the letterbomb xploit installed HB Channel and it all worked well, until i tried to install some wiiware using a WAD Manger not knowing what could go wrong...
So long Story short i installed some wad that turned out to be (as i now know, as i had to buy a second one) a wrong CioS causing the Wii to turn to black screen after reboot. It's a Pal System 4.3 Official OS, had no Bootmii installed (should have known better) no keys.txt so full bricked it is!

As i saw it a few days ago in a box grabing dust i had some idea (i had back when it happened)...
Is it possible to repair the wii by adding a MOD Chip like Wiikey or Wasabi? Back then the chip would cost almost as much as a new Wii but now there some for 15$. And as I'm learning to solder having some experince i would love to solder in a chip bringing that baby back to life ;-)

As i understand the Chip has a second Bios Bank / Nand Dump and if i solder in correctly i should be able by pressing f.e. reset for 5 seconds to boot into the Chips Bios and from there recover the Factory Settings or am i getting something wrong???

15$ aint that big deal but if it's impossible i don't need to try ;-)

Any answers would be awesome!!!
gr337z

 

You should always have a NAND backup... should have been the first thing you did after softmodding it.

Try this perhaps?


Also read:
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Brick

 

Only other thing I can think of is the Savemii dongle but I think that's been out of print for ages.

 

There is no second nand bank.

If you have no nand dump and have damaged the IOS used to boot the system menu - you can only fix it if its a certain serial number.

Let me know the serial from the machine and I can tell you if its unbrickable without a nand dump. I used to fix ALOT of Wiis (several hundred at the very least) with full bricks.

 

Thank you guys for the quick replies ! Yeah i know i got what i deserve for not dumping the NAND quiet an expensive lesson

Bad_Ad84 the Serial Number is: LEM10686207[6] (the 6 is printed with a square around it)
Maybe i get lucky on this otherwise i have some replacement parts for the future ;-)

thanks again for saving me time and money

Sorry for asking again but i'm not really getting the thing about the MOD Chip, as the wasabi Chip Description says:

Wasabi DX - Features: (Laut Hersteller!)

• Build-in configuration menu (reset console then press 3 times eject)
• 16Mbit (2MBytes) embedded Flash memory for firmware usage

What is this flash memory for? And if i install it an press 3x eject i should get to the build in config menu or is all this based on a working Wii IOS ???

 

iirc wii modchips are only working on the drive it's self, like how flashing a xbox 360 drive spoofs backups to seem legit

 

ok seems i got it finally ;-) i thought it would be kind of the xbox classic dual Bios Bank Chips that let you boot directly to a custom dash board

thanks for explaining LeHaM

 

Where are you from? Wiis are so cheap.

 

With that serial, you are basically screwed if you have damaged the system menu ios

 

I take it you have no pre/priiloader available either, if you broke the system menu ios then it should have broken this too, but worth a try in case the cios had it embedded or something.

Just out of curiosity Bad_Ad84, what serial is the cut off in LEH region consoles?

 

Thanks for the help was worth asking

I have no Priiloader installed as i said in the first post i was foolish doing it (maybe because it was so cheap), and wasn't aware that i can F*** up a system 100% without any chance to recover (only had ps1/2 with chips in a xbox with a chip, a PSP some Handys rooted etc.)!
But anyway now I'm smarter in some way i guess ;-), and as i said on first Post it's not about getting back the console (i bought a replacement 2-3 Days later as it was a christmas give for my girlfriend that i broke by not knowing ;-) ) it would have been more of a training for my soldering skills and as the chip is quiet cheap right now it would have been awesome finally owning this piece of electronic by recovering it

@HEX1GON from Germany wii's are cheap here too about 90 -110 $ back then now even cheaper in €

gr33tings and thanks to all for your help

 

@Bad_Ad84
With a hardware flasher would it still be salvageable? Since he doesn't have the original could you theoretically flash another console's NAND to it? Or must it be the original one to work?
Either way, unless you have a hardware flasher already it's most likely much cheaper and easier to just get a new console and keep the bricked one for parts.

 

If you have a console that has the exploitative boot1, you can flash bootmii into the boot2 section of the nand. Once you have done this, you can load bootmii and dump the existing (broken) nand and the important keys that are unique per console. You can then build a new nand and flash that (or you can use some tools to fix the ios).

If the console is too new for exploitable boot1, you are screwed. The nand is unique per console and can't be switched over.

And yes, this is with hardware flasher.

This is one of the reasons I have the expensive programmer that I have, I was fixing a lot of these (when they were actually worth some money)

Op, find a wii with LEH1xxxxxxx serial and you can install bootmii as boot2 and pretty much always be able to recover the console

 

@Bad_Ad84
Thanks for the info.

You can't just get the important keys just by dumping the NAND via hardware flasher I assume?

 

Keys are stored inside the hollywood chip, to get the keys you need to run code. To run code, you need a working nand or one with exploitable boot1 (which still allows running code, but you can flash this after bricking with hardware flasher).