So the DVD drive on my wii has finally gone tits up.
It keeps giving me "an error occurred, press eject bla blah" errors whenever i put a disc in. I have tried every disc in my collection all are originals and all are in region.
The problem started when I put a hired game from the video store in the unit and it got stuck just before it would normally read. I hit eject and it spat it out and I put it back in and from that point on it could no longer read discs.
My thoughts are that it damaged the laser.
Anyway, when my partner bought it for me, she bought 2 years extended warranty so it is still under this extended warranty at the moment.
However, I have homebrew on there and have softmodded the wii and am sitting on 4.1 system menu.
If i send it in I am going to have to remove all the softmods, and then send it in, but will Nintendo be able to tell I have softmodded it and therefore reject the repair?
Will they also automatically update it to 4.2?
Would I be better just to buy a drive from ebay for $50 and then do the repair myself? I have no qualms about opening it up and think that having it updated to 4.2 by nintendo or the repair being rejected may be more annoying than just doing it myself.
Anyway, any suggestions or thoughts?
Cheers
Dan