flameboy Posted April 10, 2007 Posted April 10, 2007 Ok, so I sent my Wii off to be repaired and it got fixed they sent me it back worked fine for a couple of days, had a couple of games of excite truck and some wii sports, and guess what happened today it will outright refuse to turn on again!!!! GRRR!!!! What a load of crap!
Tellyn Posted April 10, 2007 Posted April 10, 2007 Ooh, bastard. Try unplugging it from the power pak thing for five minutes.
flameboy Posted April 10, 2007 Author Posted April 10, 2007 yeah did that tried allsorts, plugging it in unplugging, using different plug sockets,different tv's everything and anything looks like its gone again!
Teppo Holmqvist Posted April 10, 2007 Posted April 10, 2007 yeah did that tried allsorts, plugging it in unplugging, using different plug sockets,different tv's everything and anything looks like its gone again! That's fucking bad luck.
flameboy Posted April 10, 2007 Author Posted April 10, 2007 That's fucking bad luck. tell me about it....
flameboy Posted April 10, 2007 Author Posted April 10, 2007 Well just got off the phone to them and they kindly offered to send out a courier today to pick it up. It is worth pointing out at this point that he did not leave his desk or go off the phone at any time, whilst obviously using the courier site to sort it out, which means they do bullshit you when they say they don't offer a pick up service.
Owen Posted April 10, 2007 Posted April 10, 2007 Well just got off the phone to them and they kindly offered to send out a courier today to pick it up. It is worth pointing out at this point that he did not leave his desk or go off the phone at any time, whilst obviously using the courier site to sort it out, which means they do bullshit you when they say they don't offer a pick up service. Sorry to hear that dude. Wouldn't it be better if they sent out an entirely new one for you? or have you got all your saves and VC games on the hard-drive and thats why they have to keep repairing it? Anyway, sorry again, you must feel pretty peeved.
flameboy Posted April 10, 2007 Author Posted April 10, 2007 Sorry to hear that dude. Wouldn't it be better if they sent out an entirely new one for you? or have you got all your saves and VC games on the hard-drive and thats why they have to keep repairing it? Anyway, sorry again, you must feel pretty peeved. Yeah it is because of the Virtual Console games, I've got my saves backed up on SD card. But they won't replace it like that, if you have VC games they have to take it in, its policy, obviously to prevent you from becoming aggrieved about losing the points.... The odd thing was I was lead to believe they had replaced it last time from a reply via email they sent me. But it seems very strange that the same problem has recurred and that the Wii was exactly as it was before, all the memo's etc... Mii's, and the most wierd thing, my wii number remained the same...
Patch Posted April 10, 2007 Posted April 10, 2007 I was just about to suggest that all they did was send you back the same Wii, but it looks like you've just confirmed it. Bad luck.
flameboy Posted April 10, 2007 Author Posted April 10, 2007 I was just about to suggest that all they did was send you back the same Wii, but it looks like you've just confirmed it. Bad luck. Yeah but they obviously did something as it was working for a couple of days...whereas before it wouldn't turn on at all....
Tellyn Posted April 10, 2007 Posted April 10, 2007 Write down your current Wii's MAC address (on one of the sides) then see if the replacement is the same. The Wii number, memos and everything though is switched over in the replacement process, that's why it's the same.
Emasher Posted April 10, 2007 Posted April 10, 2007 why don't they just take out the system memory and place it in another wii
flameboy Posted April 10, 2007 Author Posted April 10, 2007 why don't they just take out the system memory and place it in another wii i don't know...that could be what they did, which may explain why it crashed again it could be a problem with the system memory... tellyn i've noted down the mac address, shall see its the same when I get it back...
Jasper Posted April 10, 2007 Posted April 10, 2007 Yeah it is because of the Virtual Console games, I've got my saves backed up on SD card. But they won't replace it like that, if you have VC games they have to take it in, its policy, obviously to prevent you from becoming aggrieved about losing the points.... The odd thing was I was lead to believe they had replaced it last time from a reply via email they sent me. But it seems very strange that the same problem has recurred and that the Wii was exactly as it was before, all the memo's etc... Mii's, and the most wierd thing, my wii number remained the same... Actually, they'll probably just make a disc image and write in on a new Wii. Write down your Wii serial number next time - then you'll see if it changed. They just mpake a disc image and place it on a new Wii, so there's nothing special about you losing almost nothing. Also, your Wii friends-code is probably used to check your Shop identity, so if it's changed your Virtual Console games won't work anymore.
Mikey Posted April 10, 2007 Posted April 10, 2007 That's fucking gay! (why not take it back to the store by the way?)
Zyneth Posted April 10, 2007 Posted April 10, 2007 That's fucking gay! (why not take it back to the store by the way?) The store might not accept it. At least the store where I bought my broken Wii didn't. The clerk just gave me the Nintendo helpdesk phone number, so I had to send it directly to Nintendo.
darkjak Posted April 10, 2007 Posted April 10, 2007 What did you do to it? I've never heard of a Wii not working before (appart from a few controllers that didn't survive getting tossed into a wall).
4q2 Posted April 10, 2007 Posted April 10, 2007 Stores may get dodgy about replacing Wii's due to the shortages.....From their perspective an exchanged Wii is one less on the shelf to sell at that precise moment in time.
Excelle Posted April 10, 2007 Posted April 10, 2007 Sure it's not something like power surges? Could be solved with a surge protector?
Mikey Posted April 10, 2007 Posted April 10, 2007 The store might not accept it. At least the store where I bought my broken Wii didn't. The clerk just gave me the Nintendo helpdesk phone number, so I had to send it directly to Nintendo. Hmm, I'm pretty sure they are legally bound to replace broken items. That's how it is here in the UK anyway...I think...
BlueStar Posted April 11, 2007 Posted April 11, 2007 Well, I've finally had enough of my Wii's wonky drive and I'm going to ring em up today and see what they say. Stay tuned.
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