Just got my first one out here in Oshawa... I was hoping to avoid this fiasco a bit longer.
An LU567... I tried a Wasabi, a 19-wire and a 9-wire D2Pro... nothing works. I swapped in a replacement D2C board that was pre-modded with a 19-wire Pro, and it worked fine.
Alright so its time to make this clear for everyone not paying attention. Some of the drive with no markings are working and some are not. All of these reports come from professional installers so that rules out any install issues. Here is what has been tested with the non-working Wii's.
Drive that came with un-moddable unit:
D2CKey: Not Working tested by gurvir19
D2Pro 9Wire/13Wire/15Wire/19Wire: Not Working tested by gurvir19
Argon: Not Working tested by gurvir19
Wasabi: Not Working tested by gurvir19
Replacement Drives:
Wiikey (D2B Drive): Working tested by vgcrepair
D2Pro 19Wire (D2C Drive): Working tested by mikearama
Has anyone tried desoldering the d2c chip and putting a d2b or d2c chip from a moded d2c drive on to rule out if the changes are in the chipset, or the controller board?
Has anyone tried desoldering the d2c chip and putting a d2b or d2c chip from a moded d2c drive on to rule out if the changes are in the chipset, or the controller board?
Thats a good point it would be good to try a working D2C chip on an non working one to 100% confirm where the change lies.
Since we now know 100% it has been a change on the controller board,
when need to made high-res scans on both the top and bottom of the
non-working boards, and compare them to the older working d2c board,
as I am sure there has been some small layout changes or markings that
way we can quickly tell for sure which units will be the "non-working"
ones, not waste time trying to mod them, and move on to what has been
changed so we can work on getting a new chip designed for them.
Thats a good point it would be good to try a working D2C chip on an non working one to 100% confirm where the change lies.
Well its already been proven that a d2b chip works on a dvd controller board that had a d2c chip on it, so either d2b or d2c would work for this test.d2b chip would obviously be easier to do the test, since you could use any 1st gen modchip, but i suppose d2b drives are hard to come by these days.If i had one of these new wii drives, i would try it with my d2a chip.
Since we now know 100% it has been a change on the controller board,
when need to made high-res scans on both the top and bottom of the
non-working boards, and compare them to the older working d2c board,
as I am sure there has been some small layout changes or markings that
way we can quickly tell for sure which units will be the "non-working"
ones, not waste time trying to mod them, and move on to what has been
changed so we can work on getting a new chip designed for them.
Who is "we" and how do you know 100% that its a controller board change, and not a change on the d2c chip internally?Where is info to backup your statement?I havent seen anything posted about doing a chip swap with these new drives.
Xchip.cn has the "wasabi2" and the "wiitop" both of these chips are
based on on the original Wasabi 9wire design, and both of course
don't work on the new LU567 machines (with a few among earlier #'s).
The main thing has anyone tried putting a older drive board modded
in these new machines to see if it works fine, to rule out any change
to the mainboard by Nintendo.
Once again, the site isn't working. Did one of the other teams get to them first? I'd like information on these clones.
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