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Hello, BitBuilt!
I've owned my Wii for almost 20 years now. It's given me tons of memories, helped me get through many difficult times in my life, and served as my entryway to hardware/software customization. I want to keep it working for as long as possible as there's still plenty of things I want to do with it, even after all this time.
However, it's been having a difficult time displaying video through component cables over the past few months and now it simply won't display component video anymore. I've tested this console with various monitors/tvs, used different cables, and tested other Wiis with the same cables I've been using. After doing some research, the most likely diagnosis is that the capacitors responsible for encoding the component video output have completely degraded and need to be replaced. This makes sense as composite video still works and those caps don't degrade as quickly.
This is where I need you guys to come in: I am willing to pay someone to teardown the console to its motherboard, de-solder the bad caps, solder in new caps, and put it all back together. I would do this myself if I had better soldering skills (mine are horrible; I've burnt many parts of old Pokemon cartridges trying to replace the internal battery) and if I had room at my place to properly store all the screws & parts I would need to take out in order to simply access the caps. And while you're at it, I'd really appreciate it if you could clean out the fan/air intake/exhaust areas. Thing gets hot rather quickly (no issues from this that I'm aware of).
I am very open to negotiating a price for the service (I'll start the price at $60 but can go higher under the right circumstances), but I would like to physically meet up with someone and hand the console to them in order to avoid potential damages from shipping. I'm located in north NJ and would like to be within a 30-mile radius of my location (and preferably avoid going to NYC).
Additional info about the console:
- Purchased & obtained in December, 2006
- Modded (basic mods like Homebrew Channel, CTGP Revolution, WiiLink, region free) but mostly vanilla
- Underwent 2 disc drive replacements (2008 by Nintendo, dual-layered disc for Brawl, mid-2010s by retro game store, general disc-read error)
- Replaced the front end of the console for cosmetic purposes (by me)
If you think you can do the job, please reply to this message with examples of your work and I'll be sure to reach out.
Thank you so much for reading!
EDIT: "Why not just get another console or use composite cables?"
I care about the NAND chip in there. It contains precious memories which I have mistakenly not backed up onto an SD card yet.
All of my monitors/tvs in my place don't have composite inputs. Only one has component, but I would really like to use component video because it displays a better picture than composite and the composite capacitor will need to get replaced someday anyway.
I've owned my Wii for almost 20 years now. It's given me tons of memories, helped me get through many difficult times in my life, and served as my entryway to hardware/software customization. I want to keep it working for as long as possible as there's still plenty of things I want to do with it, even after all this time.
However, it's been having a difficult time displaying video through component cables over the past few months and now it simply won't display component video anymore. I've tested this console with various monitors/tvs, used different cables, and tested other Wiis with the same cables I've been using. After doing some research, the most likely diagnosis is that the capacitors responsible for encoding the component video output have completely degraded and need to be replaced. This makes sense as composite video still works and those caps don't degrade as quickly.
This is where I need you guys to come in: I am willing to pay someone to teardown the console to its motherboard, de-solder the bad caps, solder in new caps, and put it all back together. I would do this myself if I had better soldering skills (mine are horrible; I've burnt many parts of old Pokemon cartridges trying to replace the internal battery) and if I had room at my place to properly store all the screws & parts I would need to take out in order to simply access the caps. And while you're at it, I'd really appreciate it if you could clean out the fan/air intake/exhaust areas. Thing gets hot rather quickly (no issues from this that I'm aware of).
I am very open to negotiating a price for the service (I'll start the price at $60 but can go higher under the right circumstances), but I would like to physically meet up with someone and hand the console to them in order to avoid potential damages from shipping. I'm located in north NJ and would like to be within a 30-mile radius of my location (and preferably avoid going to NYC).
Additional info about the console:
- Purchased & obtained in December, 2006
- Modded (basic mods like Homebrew Channel, CTGP Revolution, WiiLink, region free) but mostly vanilla
- Underwent 2 disc drive replacements (2008 by Nintendo, dual-layered disc for Brawl, mid-2010s by retro game store, general disc-read error)
- Replaced the front end of the console for cosmetic purposes (by me)
If you think you can do the job, please reply to this message with examples of your work and I'll be sure to reach out.
Thank you so much for reading!
EDIT: "Why not just get another console or use composite cables?"
I care about the NAND chip in there. It contains precious memories which I have mistakenly not backed up onto an SD card yet.
All of my monitors/tvs in my place don't have composite inputs. Only one has component, but I would really like to use component video because it displays a better picture than composite and the composite capacitor will need to get replaced someday anyway.
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