1. System menu version after brick: 3.2U 2. Type of brick: semi brick 3. Cause of brick: not quite sure, but possibly after my uncle play my newly bought game without me knowing it, which is mario cart and he could have updated the system accidently. 4. Your modchip: don't know 5. Software used to recover from brick: wii-ntsc-systemmenu-v289.rar, you can get it from: My wii is NTSby a_ng78 - FixMii