Topic: Nintendo screwed me. >:(

[Stratos]

LOL at all of the posts I just read.

[UncleBob]

Well, here's a blast from the past... I think my Wii is dead again.

I came home today and had two messages waiting for me.  Telltale Games gifted me episodes 4 and 5 of Tales of Monkey Island.  Dunno why - I entered some contest some time ago and won Episode 3... Guess I just extra-won or something.

Anyway, I tried connecting to the Wii Shop to download my gifts - the system sets at the Wii Shop loading screen (the spinning circle) *forever*.  I have to actually hold in the power button on the Wii in order to do anything.  So, I went in to test my connection settings.  It was set to wireless, and it tests okay.  If I switch the connection over to the wired connection, I get an error message as soon as I hit the test button.

Oddly enough, I'm not getting a link light on the network cable either.  I tried testing the other two items I've got plugged in via USB; Wii Speak - channel won't load and the Logitech Wii Wireless Keyboard - doesn't respond.

My other two Wiis seem to connect just fine.

Anywhoo, I'm going to try it again tomorrow - and if that doesn't work, I guess I'll be calling Nintendo again.

[UncleBob]

Well, I tried again tonight - and tried a few different things - no luck.  My Red and Black Wiis connect just fine (downloaded the latest demos onto them) - but nothing from the White Wii.  Guess I'll be calling Nintendo tomorrow.

[Sundoulos]

Ugh.  Sorry, UB.  I hope it turns out to be a simple fix, and that it doesn't cause as much heartburn this time.   

As an aside, I will say that episodes 4 & 5 make ToMI worth the time to play, if only because those episodes kind of turn the existing Monkey Island mythos on its head in a very interesting way.  I have the PC version, though, and I only imagine that the audio compression that plagued the first two episodes have continued through each Wii Ware installment.  Too bad, really...ToMI was my favorite Tell Tale series to date, though Back to the Future is starting to run a close second. 

[Silenced]

That sucks.
 
I remember my GC almost died a while back. It starting smoking and making weird whirring noises.
 
That was back when the GC was somewhat popular.

[UncleBob]

Great news!  It works!  I had to unplug my Rock Band USB hub and re-setup my wired network, but everything's working fine now (well, except the USB hub... I guess it's shot...).

[BranDonk Kong]

That makes sense. The WiFi chipset probably runs off of the same 5v line that the USB ports do (they do on the PS3 too), I would guess there's just a short or something in that USB hub, but they're like $1 anyway so it's probably not worth cracking open.