On Friday, our Wii was returned to us from Nintendo. When I powered it on, I was pleased to see nary a blinking pixel and heard no loud buzzing noise when a disc was spinning. In summary, our Wii left Kitchener on the 7th and was at Nintendo’s repair centre in Scarborough the next day. It then appeared in the Repairs area of Nintendo’s tracking system, My Nintendo, on the 9th. Our Wii then left the repair centre on the 17th and arrived safe ‘n’ sound on the 18th. Nintendo didn’t describe what the problem actually was, but a note in the package mentioned about leaving adequate room for ventilation, so my suspicions of it cooking its video chip set were probably a safe bet.
A few other things that I noticed when I hooked our Wii back up, which sometimes didn’t jive with the note that Nintendo left in the package, are:
- Re-synching our 4 remotes was neccessary; easy-peasy.
- I had to clear and re-enter my wireless network settings. They were preserved, but for whatever reason, didn’t work until I re-entered them.
- You have to download anything you’ve downloaded in the past from the Shopping channel. As such, I proceeded to download the Opera web browser, Everybody Votes, and Check Mii Out channels again. No biggie.
- Our Miis were still there (including the one that I created that totally resembles my father in-law) but they are no longer editable
Other than that, Nintendo took good care of our console and it returned to us in an acceptable amount of time. Oh, and one more setting I made sure to change: WiiConnect24 -> Standby -> OFF! As off as off can be 🙂
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And we were able to rock the neighbours socks off with our AWESOME playing of Guitar Hero – er, Chris’ awesomeness. I am more like a Guitar Zero. Slash would be disappointed 🙁
which father-in-law?
That would be George; and a spitting image at that. I created it for him so that he could use it when he played Wii Sports while he was visiting last summer.