#Black Screen after health warning

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fervent tartan
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Decided to pull out the Wii after 5-6 years because I just helped my friend set up homebrew on his. It was working fine but I just cleaned the shell and it now blackscreens on the main menu after the health warning. Maintenance mode doesn't work either. I added some homebrew apps because I don't have my old sd card anymore but it was working fine before i decided to clean it. The only thing I can think of is maybe some water got into the system but I was pretty damn careful about that. Is there an internal component that would cause this with water damage? For clarity, I can see the main menu with all the channels that were there (I haven't installed any new channels since re-softmod, and the only ones that were there were HBC and Riivolution, so this shouldn't be a problem.) If this is a problem with physical damage, is my wii just dead? I'm not overly worried about it since I just use my pc for everything but it would be a little bit of a bummer.

vital forge
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send a video of that

fervent tartan
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gotcha

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dont have a way to take a small size video rn lol sorry

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other thing i was thinking is the component cables are iffy

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but doesnt make sense for it only black screening after going to menu

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unless displaying color would kill the signal

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uhhh update

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after letting it hang after the black screen it sent signal again

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i think the component cables are just dying

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it now restarts and launches to main menu fine it seems

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weird af lmao

quasi quarry
fervent tartan
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yeah lmao

quasi quarry
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So it was just a video cable issue?

fervent tartan
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i can only assume

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ive had problems with these cables before

quasi quarry
fervent tartan
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no

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just third party ones

quasi quarry
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Nintendo actually made OEM component cables for Wii

fervent tartan
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like newer ones? i saw them googling around i think

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these?

quasi quarry
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But honestly you could probably find some cheaper better ones