HELP!! Weird sensor problem...

I have a launch Wii that hasn't been played in a couple of months. I powered it on today could not see any of the little hands (cursors) from the WiiMotes. I couldn't select anything. I've tried power cycling everything (unplugging all cables, restarting the wii, re-synching the WiiMotes), but no luck. I started randomly moving the WiiMote around and got one of the cursors to appear. I held the position (90 degrees from the sensor) and tried messing with the sensor settings, no luck again.

The weird thing is that after moving the sensor, the cursor did not move. I unplugged the sensor bar from the Wii but was still able to move the cursor around.

Could it be that my sensor bar went bad?

Thanks in advance!

Make sure you are not too close to the TV,,,Past that not sure. HarlockJC

If the sensor bar is working you should be able to see two white dots when you look at it through a digital camera or camera phone while its on as digital cameras see infrared. If the dots dont show up try jiggling the sensor bar port or holding it at different angles and see if it works then. The same sort of thing happened to me and it turned out that the sensor bar ports wires had frayed

You can also check whether the sensor bar is working by going into the Wii remote setup menu. There's a way to see what the remote is seeing. There should be two dots that move around on a black background when you move the remote. I agree that a broken sensor bar wire is probably your problem.