My Wii overheated..

my Wii has overheated, i noticed when i was playing SSX Blur, i saw a bunch of black flashing pixels, and sometimes white pixels on the screen.

 now i need to call nintendo about it though, and hopefully i can get a replacement wii(ive heard good things about the nintendo customer service, so im confident).

 however i was wondering, what are my options, for those who have gone through getting a replacement? 

yea i just asked my friend about it, he said they need ur credit card info, but how come?

It depends if you use the replacement plan. You lose all vc, game saves but they send out a new wii to you while you ship the broken wii to them.

The credit card info is also a security measure. If you did the replacement option as noted above and the old wii was never recieved by them they just charge your credit card. They tell you this.

Certain people have also probably claimed to have a defective wii to get one since the stores don't have them.

Keep your game console out of the sun's harmfall rays and make sure you got some fan blowing in the room to lower the temp. Also don't smoke or have a lot of dust in the room that clogs up the fan and if you opened up an electronic device from a smoker's place you would be shocked at the gunk on everything. It's like a sludge that is real sticky. Now imagine said sludge in the lungs of smokers.

yea i just asked my friend about it, he said they need ur credit card info, but how come?

Haziqonfire

It depends if you use the replacement plan. You lose all vc, game saves but they send out a new wii to you while you ship the broken wii to them.

The credit card info is also a security measure. If you did the replacement option as noted above and the old wii was never recieved by them they just charge your credit card. They tell you this.

Certain people have also probably claimed to have a defective wii to get one since the stores don't have them.

Keep your game console out of the sun's harmfall rays and make sure you got some fan blowing in the room to lower the temp. Also don't smoke or have a lot of dust in the room that clogs up the fan and if you opened up an electronic device from a smoker's place you would be shocked at the gunk on everything. It's like a sludge that is real sticky. Now imagine said sludge in the lungs of smokers.

meimnobody

thanks. lol my mom smokes and my room is full of dust!!!

"Now imagine said sludge in the lungs of smokers."

but you get such sludge into the fan-parts even if you dont smoke, its dust, dryed and heated together

btw. the lung is a living organ so any "sludge" will be cleaned and worked up through the skin... up to a certain amount, of course :D

I'm sorry to hear that :(lzorro

its k i got a SD card so i have my saved data, and havent downloaded VC games.

btw funny sig. 

Why aren't all the people that write "TEH WII DOSE NOT HAV UN OVERHEETING PROBLUM!!" commenting in this thread? Hmm?

yea i just asked my friend about it, he said they need ur credit card info, but how come?

Haziqonfire

No, I just got a new DS and no CC info needed.

Why aren't all the people that write "TEH WII DOSE NOT HAV UN OVERHEETING PROBLUM!!" commenting in this thread? Hmm?

decepticondevil

Lol I told all of the doubters that the Wii can have overheating problems, Wii connect 24 get's strangly hot, all I have to say is that I told you so.....

"Now imagine said sludge in the lungs of smokers."

but you get such sludge into the fan-parts even if you dont smoke, its dust, dryed and heated together

btw. the lung is a living organ so any "sludge" will be cleaned and worked up through the skin... up to a certain amount, of course :D

 

hitomo

Nope taking apart plenty of electronics. The ones with dust were easy to clean often a lot of electronics from nonsmoking places didn't have any sludge in them. Smokers on the other hand ugh!!! It's tar sludge.

No most wiis don't overheat. If it does it's due to the enviroment the wii is in or a defect in the manufactoring.

Any game console including NESs would overheat if in a dusty room or in a room that was a certain temputure unless fans were blowing in the room. Or if the console was in the sunlight from windows.

i had the same problem with the overheating but that was becuase my dog knocked my wii over and damaged the fan so i called nintendo and they fixed it for free but if you did something to the wii dont tell them blueteeth

Yeah my girlfriend did the same thing, the Wii used to get to hot and just shut down... I found out the fan wasnt working, nudged it with a pen and everything was fine...

[QUOTE="decepticondevil"]

Why aren't all the people that write "TEH WII DOSE NOT HAV UN OVERHEETING PROBLUM!!" commenting in this thread? Hmm?

spazmaticmof0

Lol I told all of the doubters that the Wii can have overheating problems, Wii connect 24 get's strangly hot, all I have to say is that I told you so.....

I'm still not afraid of my Wii overheating. It seems to be such a rare problem.

[QUOTE="spazmaticmof0"][QUOTE="decepticondevil"]

Why aren't all the people that write "TEH WII DOSE NOT HAV UN OVERHEETING PROBLUM!!" commenting in this thread? Hmm?

reggie186

Lol I told all of the doubters that the Wii can have overheating problems, Wii connect 24 get's strangly hot, all I have to say is that I told you so.....

I'm still not afraid of my Wii overheating. It seems to be such a rare problem.

Basically, you need to knock it over first...

It depends if you use the replacement plan. You lose all vc, game saves but they send out a new wii to you while you ship the broken wii to them.

The credit card info is also a security measure. If you did the replacement option as noted above and the old wii was never recieved by them they just charge your credit card. They tell you this.

Certain people have also probably claimed to have a defective wii to get one since the stores don't have them.

Keep your game console out of the sun's harmfall rays and make sure you got some fan blowing in the room to lower the temp. Also don't smoke or have a lot of dust in the room that clogs up the fan and if you opened up an electronic device from a smoker's place you would be shocked at the gunk on everything. It's like a sludge that is real sticky. Now imagine said sludge in the lungs of smokers.

meimnobody

 I'm glad im quitting smoking. havn't even smoked for 365 days/ and im quitting, and im happy. 

Ok.....my wii is overheating and it pissin me off!!!! please help cos' its only when i play virt. console games......... really angry ...........................Mojoe835

quick question.. Why did you revive a old topic?