⟐ Commented April 01, 2026 at 22:29 MST

⟐ Answered April 01, 2026 at 14:05 MST

Me and my roomates are big fans of playing Golf on Wii Sports Resort. We have the original Wii (NA Canada version, RVL-001 I believe) and original remotes with some Motion Plus adapters I bought online (not official I'm pretty sure). We've had some problems with syncing the adapters but always managed to make it work. However, we've had a lagging problem that has now turned in a freezing problem and happens everytime we play Golf. The game starts to lag and then freezes 100%, the remote is unresponsive (not even home button) and the game is hard stuck (altough the soothing wind sound is still playing, and music also when there is some). This happens around 3 holes in the game or before. Other games don't suffer from this problem and even other sports on Wii Sports Resort seem fine. I have even bought a brand new copy of the game thinking it would fix it but I have the same problem.

What I have done:

- Powercycle the wii.

- Clean the air traps of dust.

- Delete the game data.

- Desync (15s on the red button beside the sd card slot) the remote and resync.

- Bought a brand new disc.

- Recalibrate the sensor to max light setting.

- Update the wii system to last version (4.3U).

-Deactivated WiiConnect24.

I read that the disk is double layered and that might be the cause, and I need to clean the lens so I bought the lens cleaning kit and cleaned my lens 2 times today, without success. Could it be that I need a wii RVL-101 version for tbis game? However, I'm a bit skeptical that other games on the same disk are working. Also today I played some 3 holes and it worked fine, for some reason. Any of you ever had this problem and if so, how did you fix it? Thanks in advance for your help!

⟐ Commented March 30, 2026 at 8:27 MST

⟐ Commented March 29, 2026 at 22:43 MST

⟐ Commented March 27, 2026 at 12:21 MST

⟐ Answered March 19, 2026 at 3:27 MST

I'm wondering if the Bluetooth controller card I bought may have been DOA or if there is another repair I should try. I have read that this can be a software problem sometimes but there is so much out there to read on these old things.

⟐ Answered March 16, 2026 at 7:30 MST

⟐ Answered March 14, 2026 at 5:19 MST

• When I plug in power, I get a solid red light (standby).
• When I press the power button, the console does not turn on; instead I hear a clicking sound from the motherboard.
• If I hold the power button, it just keeps clicking repeatedly.
  P/S: PSU Adapter work before and still work for 2 another Wii.

⟐ Answered March 11, 2026 at 3:36 MST

⟐ Commented March 09, 2026 at 6:53 MST

Some wii U are coming with this problem that the T.V doesn't show ANY image at all , so you can't Sync the gamepad with the console since you can't see any symbols at the T.V . The console turns on normally the gamepad too , everything is correct , follow the instruction on the manual step by step ,you try different T.Vs different HDMI cable , try the AV cable but no success ..

So the final solution is to send it back to nintendo to get a new one...

But what if you want to try to fix it by your self?

Can someone please solve the mistery of the bricked wii U's?

⟐ Commented March 06, 2026 at 13:22 MST

PS spot in referencing is on the “C141” area

⟐ Commented March 02, 2026 at 19:40 MST

The Wii U still thinks a disc is loaded in the console. The menu says there is an invalid disc in the drive when there is no disc at all. Pressing the eject button makes the same noise as if a disc is trying to come out and then the laser moves, trying to read a disc that isn't there.

Is there a position I can manually move any of the disc drive parts in or to so the console knows there is not a disc in the drive? Should I just replace the drive?

⟐ Commented February 27, 2026 at 9:45 MST

The game was still up on the pause menu, but the music didn’t sound right (was playing Wind Waker), and I went to save it and it worked as normal until it said “error. Please restart the console and refer to Wii instruction manual.”

I restarted it, and then turned it back on, and noticed that it wasn’t spinning the disc anymore. I pressed the eject button and it worked as normal and same with reinserting it, but still no spin. I completely unhooked the power from the outlet and the back of the Wii, and then waited about 5 minutes and tried again with two separate discs and same thing. It would try, but then wouldn’t succeed in starting to spin it. I’ve taken the Wii apart now, because if anything it could just be really dirty (hopeful thinking) as this is my original Wii from 2007 that I’ve been playing since.

As soon as I opened up the disc compartment I noticed this thin filament wire around where the disc would spin. I’m not super knowledgeable on any of this stuff and I’m just going off of what I’m finding online and taking things really slow and cleaning what I can with rubbing alcohol and a q-tip as I go, but I can’t find anything online about this little wire that wraps around this area here (very much likely I’m just searching the wrong thing).

If anyone’s able to give me some insight, I’d really appreciate it. I’d love to be able to repair this myself if possible, but will also be willing to get this repaired elsewhere or replace the whole disc drive if this thing is shot.

⟐ Commented February 22, 2026 at 14:33 MST

⟐ Answered February 19, 2026 at 11:11 MST

⟐ Answered February 14, 2026 at 11:22 MST

When I insert a disc, it makes a very loud grinding sound and then ejects the disc after a few seconds. It then pulls the disc back in, makes the same loud grinding sound, and then ejects it again. There are NO error messages and this happens with all discs.

I’m guessing this is just a hardware issue regarding the disc drive, or maybe there’s stuff stuck in there. Does anyone know what I should be looking for if I end up taking it apart? Or should I just try to replace the disc drive? I have no experience with tech repair but I know there are some pretty good guides.

Alternatively, does anyone know if there are places that still repair Nintendo Wii?

⟐ Commented February 01, 2026 at 12:52 MST

While the disc drive still read and writes, inserts and ejects perfectly. The sounds it makes when I insert a disc is broken. When it spins (reads) it makes scratching sounds but it doesn't scratch the disc at all.

I do have some audio if one is interrested.

I do found some ebay disc drives but not sure how I would transfer the logic board.

Would it still be possible to repair the one I have?

⟐ Commented January 23, 2026 at 2:46 MST

⟐ Answered January 23, 2026 at 1:39 MST

⟐ Commented January 18, 2026 at 21:51 MST