Had scare today; thought PS3 had major coronary infarct. Instead Wii bit the dust.

[Rainbow Man]

The power strip has one of those "master"/"slave" setups. IE you're supposed to plug your PC into the master socket and when it comes on a relay turns on the slave sockets (fro peripherals).

I had wii in the master socket since it always drew enough power to ensure the slave sockets were also active.

So when I see my PS3 isn't glowing gently green and blue I of ocurse assume the worst and think the folding killed it. But the PS3 was fine it was the wii's fault. When it died it turned off the slave sockets. All that happened was that F @ H lost its current work unit (which it was like 60+ % dione with last I checked!) and started over.

Wii's been sitting in Wii24 mode a lot. It really DOES get rather hot that way but I have no idea if this led to its demise.

Now the power light isn't coming on at all. I replugged the power cords an everything but no change. t's dead with my Zelda DVD stuck in its belly. Feh.
Peace.

 

[almighty]

Sad to here that, still thank the lord for warranties

 

[PARANOiA]

That sucks Is there any way to get your game saves off the Wii? For a 70 hour game that'd hurt.

 

[LunchBox]

ouch!

hopefully your warranty is still good!

 

[Rainbow Man]

Is there any way to get your game saves off the Wii? For a 70 hour game that'd hurt.

It seems Nintendo hhas procedures to copy your stuff onto another wii when they do warranty service.

What I'm wondering is what will I do once warrant yruns OUT on this thing?

I may have piled up a substantial amount of wii store goodies and whatnot. Since Nintendo says these purchases are good for one system only.. I'm not gonna stand for having to re-buy everything should I ever have to buy another Wii that's for sure. I'll sue em if I have to.
Peace.

 

[archangelmorph]

I'll sue em if I have to.
Peace.

Ah!

Glad to see you're considering handling things the good ol' "American Way!"

 

[Arwin]

My PS3 hasn't been switched off since I first turned it on last Friday, at 17:00. When I'm not gaming, it's folding. I noticed yours is folding even more than mine

It won't get its first rest before Friday 17:00, completing a full 24/7 cycle of hard work. So far though, it's holding up with barely a sweat (just a faint fan-noise ... ). After that, I'll think a bit careful about whether I want to invest 14,4 euro into folding every month ...

 

[crystalcube]

It may not be your Wii but the power adapter may have been dead. Something similar happened to me, while doing an update of FW Wii just hanged. And it wont respond to anything , so switched off/on the power switch and it didn't started up so I thought Wii is dead but it was only the power supply and Wii was working fine once I replaced the power supply.

 

[NERO]

Oooooooooooooh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side
The summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying
'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide.
But come ye back when summer's in the meadow
Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow
'Tis I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow
Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so.

where danny=wii

 

[inefficient]

I'm a little worried about leaving my PS3 on 24/7 during the summer months. Of course, If I am home the AC will be on. But while I am at work or out I am pretty sure my PS3 will melt into a puddle under the additional burden of summer.

 

[Rainbow Man]

where danny=wii

What the hell?

Anuyway.. I returned my wittle wii. They said it woulkd take maybe a week. Aagh.

Firtst Nintendo console ever to break on me. I've ownned 'em all and some I've been pretty rough on too.

Maybe a sign that as things get more complicated they become more fragile.
Peace.

 

[Arwin]

Maybe a sign that as things get more complicated they become more fragile.
Peace.

That should mean the PS3 will have a much higher failure rate than the Wii I suppose, with the 360 somewhere inbeteen?

 

[22psi]

Poor little Wii. May the gaming gods have mercy on your soul.

 

[Teasy]

Never plug a Nintendo Wii into the same place as a PS3. Its programmed to kill the Wii at any cost

Anyway.. sorry to hear that.

 

[Rainbow Man]

My Wii is healthy and all-singing all-dancing again. It was the power supply that died the wii itself was fortunately unharmed by the ordeal.

Extra fortunately by the way since I had mistakenly left a 512MB SD-card in the front slot and who knows if the repair guy had remembered to check the slot and send the card back..if he didn't decide to keep it as a "bonus"..

Never plug a Nintendo Wii into the same place as a PS3. Its programmed to kill the Wii at any cost

Hah the Wii sits a lot closer to my 360 and the PSU sat resting ON TOP of the 360's PSU! I'm sure it was bad vibes radiating from inside (directed from Redmond of course) that killed the PSU..
Peace!