So I have a wii(Launch day) that was working about 1yr - 9 mths ago. Its was in a box. I have not powered it on till today. Now i'm getting a black screen(really no screen at all) it had HBC installed on it and I would love some help troubleshooting it. When I power it on with a SD the front light blinks and below is a copy of the log from USBGecko with the SD card in. Using a GC Controller in the fourth port does not work.

I have good dumps of the firmware and keys available for it.

BootMii v1.3
Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Team Twiizers.
All rights reserved.  Redistribution or sale is prohibited.
ARMBOOT header (@0x28700):
 Header size: 00000010
 Loader size: 00003cd0
 ELF size: 00027674
 Argument: 00000001
 ELF at 0x2c3e0
Trying to mount SD...
sdhc_bus_power(1)
sdhc_bus_clock(25000)
not resetting due to timeout
timeout dump: error_intr: 0x0 intr: 0x0
CID: mid=02 name='TMSD02G' prv=40.10 psn=0774091d mdt=12/2007
csd: 00 00 2d 00 32 5b 5a 83 d5 fe fb ff 80 16 80 00 
taac=45 nsac=0 read_bl_len=10 c_size=3927 c_size_mult=7 card size=2059403264 bytes
calculated timeout =  200000ns
sdmmc_select: resp=700
Trying to open SD:/bootmii/armboot.bin
Trying to read ARMBOOT header to 0x10407c00
ARMBOOT header (@0x10407c00):
 Header size: 00000010
 Loader size: 000004d0
 ELF size: 0000bb4f
 Argument: 00000000
 ELF at 0x104080e0
Total ARMBOOT size: 0xc02f
Trying to read ARMBOOT to 0x10407c00
ARMBOOT read
Launching ARMBOOT @ 0x10407c10

mini 0.4 loading
Initializing exceptions...
Configuring caches and MMU...
MEM: cleaning up
MEM: unprotecting memory
MEM: mapping sections
MEM: enabling caches
MEM: enabling MMU
MEM: init done
IOSflags: 0000ff01 00000000 00000000
          00000000 00000000 cafebabe
Interrupts initialized
crypto support initialized
NAND initialized.
found valid boot2 blockmap at page 0xbf, submap 0, generation 14
found valid boot2 blockmap at page 0x13f, submap 0, generation 12
found valid boot2 blockmap at page 0x1bf, submap 0, generation 13
boot2 blocks: 01 02 05 06 07
boot2 title key: 180d129b36dbc2b9094f77a34e7000f6
boot2 content size: 0x2b354 (padded: 0x2b360)
boot2 copy 0 loaded to 0x13f01e80
Initializing IPC...
Initializing SDHC...
sdhc_bus_power(1)
sdhc_bus_clock(25000)
not resetting due to timeout
timeout dump: error_intr: 0x0 intr: 0x0
CID: mid=02 name='TMSD02G' prv=40.10 psn=0774091d mdt=12/2007
csd: 00 00 2d 00 32 5b 5a 83 d5 fe fb ff 80 16 80 00 
taac=45 nsac=0 read_bl_len=10 c_size=3927 c_size_mult=7 card size=2059403264 bytes
calculated timeout =  200000ns
sdmmc_select: resp=700
Mounting SD...
Trying to boot:/bootmii/ppcboot.elf
LOAD 0x80 @0x00003400 [0x140]
LOAD 0x1c0 @0x00004000 [0x4d000]
ELF load done, booting PPC...
disabling EXI now...
PPC booted!
Going into IPC mainloop...
sdhc_bus_power(1)
sdhc_bus_clock(25000)
not resetting due to timeout
timeout dump: error_intr: 0x0 intr: 0x0
CID: mid=02 name='TMSD02G' prv=40.10 psn=0774091d mdt=12/2007
csd: 00 00 2d 00 32 5b 5a 83 d5 fe fb ff 80 16 80 00 
taac=45 nsac=0 read_bl_len=10 c_size=3927 c_size_mult=7 card size=2059403264 bytes
calculated timeout =  200000ns
sdmmc_select: resp=700

all that spew is bootmii running, then loading mini, mini is able to read the ppc app (the "bootmii ui") from your SD card and load it. then the ppc app starts talking to mini, and has it mount the SD card. at that point, i would expect to see something on the TV screen. it doesnt say anything about loading the real boot2 and patching it. IIRC, when it loads the system menu, or HBC, it will say something along those lines.

what does it do if you start the wii with no SD card inserted? and if you plug your GC controller into the first port, starts the wii with the SD card inserted, and press A without having pressed left or right, does it say anything more?

Output with no SD card

BootMii v1.3
Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Team Twiizers.
All rights reserved.  Redistribution or sale is prohibited.
ARMBOOT header (@0x28700):
 Header size: 00000010
 Loader size: 00003cd0
 ELF size: 00027674
 Argument: 00000001
 ELF at 0x2c3e0
Trying to mount SD...
Trying to open SD:/bootmii/armboot.bin
Error 3 while trying to open file
Couldn't load from SD, falling back to boot2
Loading ELF...
PHDRS at 0x2c414
 Skipping PHDR of type 6
 Skipping PHDR of type 4
 LOAD 0x2c414 -> 138f0000 [0x23c]
 LOAD 0x2c650 -> 13a70000 [0xb134]
 LOAD 0x37784 -> 13a10000 [0x710c]
 LOAD 0x3e890 -> 13a18000 [0x2ac]
 LOAD 0x3eb3c -> 13a19000 [0x0]
 LOAD 0x3eb3c -> 139f0000 [0xb148]
 LOAD 0x49c84 -> 139fc000 [0x160]
 LOAD 0x49de4 -> 139fd000 [0x0]
 LOAD 0x49de4 -> fffe0000 [0x0]
 LOAD 0x49de4 -> ffff0000 [0x85ac]
 LOAD 0x52390 -> ffff85ac [0xc00]
 LOAD 0x52f90 -> ffff91b0 [0xac4]
 LOAD 0x53a54 -> ffff9c80 [0x0]
Starting boot2...

GC Controller does not do anything. Also if i try and use the reset and power buttons to navigate blindly there is no output.

that sounds like a hardware issue to me. neither the system menu or bootmii is showing up on the screen. bootmii should show up even if the bluetooth doomuhickey is broken/shaken loose. i would start by trying a different tv, then get a friend's wii and try their video cable, and work your way along each piece of hardware until you get back to the wii itself.

something else may be up though. when you start your wii with the SD card in and it loads bootmii, by default it should highlite the "start the system menu" or "start hbc" button. and if you press a, you should get some spew from it as it loads either one of those.

booting boot2 with title 00010001-af1bf516
patched data @110174e0
boot2 is at 0x11000010
IPC mainloop done!
Shutting down IPC...
Shutting down interrupts...
Shutting down caches and MMU...
Vectoring to 0x11000010...

i also notice that when i start my wii up with the SD card in, i get almost identical text as you. i see that i have some stuff at the end of mine that you dont have.

sdmmc: sdhc mode, c_size=30797, card size = 15768576k
sdmmc_select: resp=700
cache init ok
cache init ok
cleared 1 pending power IRQs and 1 pending eject IRQs
Mini version: 1.3

yours stops just before the "cache init ok" part. maybe you have more than 1 issue going on here. verify armboot.bin and ppcboot.elf are not busted. these are the 2 files i have in the bootmii folder. i think they came from the hackmii installer 0.8

$ md5sum ./armboot.bin ./ppcboot.elf
47d5d5150493c9d5d1fc006897348198  ./armboot.bin
6e09230102675f2537d0158a567d19f0  ./ppcboot.elf

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/23/2012 04:30PM by giantpune.

So I have tried the original Video cable that came with the wii and it does not work also. I've beeen using the component cable originally. and my md5sum of ppcboot.elf and armboot.bin match yours. I'm going to take apart the Wii and see if anything has come loose on the inside. During the nine months it was down it did send some time in the trunk of my car. Do the Gamecube controller/MC reader share the same cable running to the Wii's motherboard or are they separate cables?

i dont think there are any cables connecting the GC stuff and the SD card slot to the motherboard. pretty much all of the components are soldered directly to the main board.

you can see the sd slot in the front and all the GC hardware connections all stuck right to the board.

Darn it. There goes that Idea. If the BT module has been knocked loose would using a GC controller in the 4th slot work or would I need a actual SaveMII?

If the bt module was bad, savemiifrii would work with a gc controller.

but-
bootmii boot2 would also work
priiloader/preloader would also work
HBC would also work
wiimotes would not work
wii games would not work
etc

So, it is not likely your bt module, but give it a try.

Yeah, even with the DVD Drive and the BT module out there was no change in the output of the boot process. I'm calling it a absolute brick. Thanks for the help.