Wii freezing along with very loud buzzing?

Alright this has happened a few times since I bought the Conduit. The first time it happened I was playing the Conduit and I switched to my SCAR. Instead of having a SCAR I was holding an IMP Launcher (even though I didn't pick one up and it showed the SCAR icon). Then the game froze while making a very loud buzzing sound. I figured "wow that was a crazy glitch that must have crashed my wii" and thought nothing of it.

Since then it had happened a few more times while playing the Conduit, those times with no blatantly obvious glitch to indicate that it would start freezing, it just did. I figured it was just the Conduit or something until today when I got Overlord Dark Legend.

As I was shaking my minions to have them kamikaze, the game froze. No glitch to indicate it might do so. Then I was looking at my map in the game and it wouldn't display anything, just a blank page with the "you are here" icon. I closed my map and reopened it, boom frozen wii.

I tried standing my wii up, as it had been horizontal prior to freezing. That did nothing it froze again at another point. Now its back horizontal to prevent knockover and I don't know what to do really. These are 2 new games and neither have a scratch or something like that. Could it perhaps be because both games are rather graphics intensive on the poor console?

It doesn't happen often or rapidly. Once every few hours (I'd say maybe once every 2-5 hours) on days where the wii sees heavy play time.

Has anyone else had the issue? Could it just be that both games overload the system with their graphics? I haven't actually tested the theory but its never happened in the past. Is my wii broken? Do I need repairs (which would suck as my warranty is long gone)? Any info would be much appreciated.

I've played all the way through Conduit 1 player with out a problem. In the Wii Bond game QoS I get a buzzing freeze during loading of the last save point on the last level and had to restart the level to get past it. Maybe your Wii is getting picky about glitches that it would get past normally?

Happened to me when I was playing MKW. I just restarted it and it never happened since. That was the first time, too.

Did it happen while playing Super Mario Galaxy (assuming you played it on your Wii, of course)? I can't imagine a game that demands more of the Wii's GPU than SMG.

Did it happen while playing Super Mario Galaxy (assuming you played it on your Wii, of course)? I can't imagine a game that demands more of the Wii's GPU than SMG.

dan_the_menace

is the conduit a dual layer disc? I would try to clean your lens and see if that helps. Also why not blow out the vents too. Its my opinion that the more we keep our electronics clean the less issues we'll have.

ok definitely not dual layer but still clean things out anyway. Can't hurt. I had a laptop and its fan was buzzing very loudly and stopping causing the laptop to shut down. A full can of air later the laptop works like new.

Mine was doing that exactly. You'll have to send it in. It will continue to freeze during your games more often until all games will be unplayable. Hopefully you still have the warranty. Kcdragon8116

i remember that happening to me a few times a longg time ago... i dont even remember what game i was playing, but it hasn't happened since, so it might not be anything too serious. (i doubt the fan is really doing much either.. but keep it there if it seems to be good luck :))

[QUOTE="Kcdragon8116"]Mine was doing that exactly. You'll have to send it in. It will continue to freeze during your games more often until all games will be unplayable. Hopefully you still have the warranty. snowman6251

i'm telling you man, get a can of air and blow out those vents.

i'm telling you man, get a can of air and blow out those vents.

Jamisonia

i'm telling you man, get a can of air and blow out those vents.

Jamisonia

I doubt your Wii is at fault. In the Gametrailers review of overlord they said they encountered system crashes in the retail release - meaning its a bug in the game and not a fault in the hardware. I don't own The Conduit but I've heard its quite buggy and I wouldn't be suprised if it caused system crashes. You should only worry if this happens with other games that you KNOW work properly (like SMG).