Day: February 20, 2022

I disconnected my Dell T1600 local server and had it disconnected for about a week. I went to reconnect it and it wouldn’t boot into windows. I remembered this issue was because the coincell battery was dead and I had meant to change the battery the next time I disconnected the server -which was now. So, I changed the coin cell battery and reconnected it. Now, the computer wouldn’t post, so not only could I not get into windows, I couldn’t even get in the bios. The post codes would go between 1,4 and 2,3. Both are proprietary Dell post codes for this model that pretty much say your board is fried, but the codes kept changing, so who knows. Anyway, I took the computer to my desk where I do my repairs.

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So I’ve been looking at used Wii’s and Wii U’s. We have two, but one is in the guest house with our boys and the other is our original launch edition Wii that doesn’t output component. I’ve done enough reading on the subject to understand that the gen 1 Wii’s have an issue with overheating and the AVE chip getting damaged. Apparently this leads to the component video signal no longer being available. They got better with each gen, but made a big step in gen 4 and even bigger in gen 6. A trick to quickly find the motherboard revision is to look in the coin cell compartment for the numbers 10-60 with each increment representing the gen. i.e. 10 = 1st gen, 20 = 2nd gen etc. But the easiest way to know you’re getting a gen 4 or gen 6 is to buy a red or black Wii. I would have fixed my launch edition gen 1, but I had already done a case swap with a different Wii that I had bought used and the case had been trashed (I case swapped the two wiis because the mangled case one could output component and mine couldn’t), plus the disc drive on my original could use a replacement. I had already fixed the disc drive a couple times and it still works, it just isn’t perfect.