wiikey problems

[BLUEBIRDNIPS]

a picture to show the final result
and yes there is a lot of glue but i would rather than than the wires come off

By skippersbar, shot with EX-Z40 at 2007-12-01
once again cheers to all for their help

[BLUEBIRDNIPS]

one more thing for anyone thinking of doing this DONT, send it to someone to do it for you LOL
and if your chip is a gc2-d2b you need to take the above actions to achieve the required result

[{{909}}]

one more thing for anyone thinking of doing this DONT, send it to someone to do it for you LOL
and if your chip is a gc2-d2b you need to take the above actions to achieve the required result

yeah, we know, we have been telling you that the entire thread!

can you actually re-assemble the wii with all that hot glue on there? I use a tiny amount if I bother at all, your solder should be 100x stronger than any glue if its a good join.

[BLUEBIRDNIPS]

yep shut down fine
didnt say you didnt know what you were doing
all i said was the calculator is not to be trusted
cheers 909

[gazza341]

well done mate, and yeh the pins are very small (too small lol)
give yourself a pat on the back.

[pizza-man]

peace piss LOL
u have to learn somwehere

[gazza341]

peace piss LOL
u have to learn somwehere

can you enrol me in the 'pizza-man school of soldering' then - LOL

[waylyn]

just having a go at a re-wire and noticed this, is it how they come or has the person i bought it off had it chipped before ??

By skippersbar at 2007-11-21

Hi I am a newbie here, just got a wii it's the same layout and chipset as yours got a wiikey chip the same as yours grinding down the prossessor wired it the same but wont play back-ups. Still playing original discs fine but not any back-ups is the a set up disc or anything else that could be stopping it?

[waylyn]

Hi I am a newbie here, just got a wii it's the same layout and chipset as yours got a wiikey chip the same as yours grinding down the prossessor wired it the same but wont play back-ups. Still playing original discs fine but not any back-ups is the a set up disc or anything else that could be stopping it?

My name is waylyn sorry.

[{{909}}]

It should run pal backups as soon as its installed, you would need to run the config disk to make it multiregion etc.

Im guessing you have a bad solder join somewhere, its very easy to bridge points on those exposed chip connections.

Make an intro in the relevant section too, and welcome to DF.

[BFG]

a picture to show the final result
and yes there is a lot of glue but i would rather than than the wires come off

By skippersbar, shot with EX-Z40 at 2007-12-01
once again cheers to all for their help

The right most wire (pin 5) *might* pop off if the Wii gets warm, might have to keep an eye on that, doesn't look like a solid connection. But congrats, dremeled my first last night but I haven't got a flux pen, my wires won't hold.

[gazza341]

I haven't got a flux pen, my wires won't hold.

i've just used a piece of kynar awg30 wire to brush the contact with a small amount of lead free solder flux to get the wires to stick - it's more readily available than a flux pen.

good luck with it mate

gazza

[BLUEBIRDNIPS]

hi guys all still working well
waylyn whats the chip number

[gazza341]

Hi I am a newbie here, just got a wii it's the same layout and chipset as yours got a wiikey chip the same as yours grinding down the prossessor wired it the same but wont play back-ups. Still playing original discs fine but not any back-ups is the a set up disc or anything else that could be stopping it?

hi waylin,

ALL of the wiikeys i have installed have needed the config disk to initially get them working. i got the image for the config disk from wiikeys website, but appears to be down at the minute.
HTH

[pizza-man]

yeah i always use the confg disk (doesnt mean u have to)
just i always do

[bulletproof]

i think you have to use the config disc when you have updated your wii's firmware past version 3.0

i have just insalled a couple of clone wiikeys and had to use a hex altered config v3.1 so i could just get to the config screen of the wiikey to alter the region setting.

once i had done that i could then run the 1.9 update and then SMG would work and everything would load just fine...

BP