Wii U not displaying anything?

[Bagel Le Stinky]

So when I turn on my Wii U, nothing happens on the tv. Also it can connect to the gamepad to power it on, but doesn't display anything to it. Instead the gamepad gives an error saying to power it off and on. The last thing that happened on the Wii U before this issue was me trying to play Breath of the Wild, but about 20 seconds after it booted it gave a usb error. I can tell the Wii U is on because the power light is blue and I hear disk activity.

 

[V10lator]

Does it work with the USB drive disconnected?

 

[Bagel Le Stinky]

Does it work with the USB drive disconnected?

No, it doesn't.

 

[Bagel Le Stinky]

Does it work with the USB drive disconnected?

Nevermind, yes it does.

 

[V10lator]

yes it does.

What kind of drive is it, HDD, SSD, stick, SD card, ...?

 

[Bagel Le Stinky]

What kind of drive is it, HDD, SSD, stick, SD card, ...?

It's a 128gb usb stick

 

[V10lator]

And that's why you shouldn't use USB sticks on the Wii U.

In case the data is important for you you could try to grab an image from the stick, then dump OTP + SEEPROM and use https://github.com/koolkdev/wfs-tools to try to extract the files.

To see if there's still live in the stick format it on your PC (will loose all data!) and check it with https://3ds.hacks.guide/h2testw-(windows).html . Pretty sure the Wii U killed it through so get a HDD with a Y cable.

 

[TheStonedModder]

And that's why you shouldn't use USB sticks on the Wii U.

In case the data is important for you you could try to grab an image from the stick, then dump OTP + SEEPROM and use https://github.com/koolkdev/wfs-tools to try to extract the files.

To see if there's still live in the stick format it on your PC (will loose all data!) and check it with https://3ds.hacks.guide/h2testw-(windows).html . Pretty sure the Wii U killed it through so get a HDD with a Y cable.

Usb sticks can break the hdmi ?

My 32gb Wii U suddenly stopped outputting one day and I can’t seem to figure out why…but I also use a 128gb usb stick(Kingston)

That being said..even without the usb in I still can’t seem to get video. Does that mean it’s probably something else ?

 

[V10lator]

Usb sticks can break the hdmi ?

No but the Wii U can break the stick which in return can cause booting issues.

even without the usb in I still can’t seem to get video. Does that mean it’s probably something else ?

Yes, that sounds like a different issue. I would suggest trying to grab syslogs with UDPIH.

 

[TheStonedModder]

No but the Wii U can break the stick which in return can cause booting issues.

Yes, that sounds like a different issue. I would suggest trying to grab syslogs with UDPIH.

Do you happen to have a suggestion on which log file would be a good one to start digging around in? Looks like I have 25 of them

 

[V10lator]

@TheStonedModder With less than 99 log files the one with the highest number should be the last one, so I would look there first. Anyway, what I would also do is search through all of them for "DATA CORRUPTION" and "MEDIA ERROR".

 

[TheStonedModder]

@TheStonedModder With less than 99 log files the one with the highest number should be the last one, so I would look there first. Anyway, what I would also do is search through all of them for "DATACORRUPTION" and "MEDIA ERROR".

No results found for either so I guess thats good news ha. Must really just be the port itself or something internal