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My wii light won't turn on,but everything else in the same outlet works fine. The wires and everything are connected, but the light won't turn green, and it won't turn yellow orred, it's just won't start at all

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  • memorialhame Apr 29, 2008

    My wii has been off for several months, and now we can't get it back on. Nothing at all happens when we plug it in. The power won't even come on.

  • choungtran Apr 30, 2008

    thx it turn out it was the cord with the big thing on it that was unplug

  • leaB Jun 06, 2008

    haven't used my wii in a week, went to switch it on and nothing!! no light, no power, nothing. HELP. 4 kids going mad

  • AndyBeronia Jan 13, 2009

    just bought my we for my son, he was creating "characters" and then, it just turned off, it will NOT turn back on...it's dead!

  • mandamandy Jan 13, 2009

    My son was playing with the wii game ,I was not there to see what game. He said Mario that we have and the game turned off and went dead and I cannot get it back on.

  • AMC9106 Jan 13, 2009

    I bought a charging station for my Wii and the two remotes. It charged everything fine and up until yesterday, the lights shut off and I can't get it back on. I have it plugged into a surge protector. We did not have any type of storm. I rechecked all the plugs and it still won't turn on. I got the console for Christmas so it is not even a month old. What do I do?

  • crystalga238 Feb 14, 2009

    i was playing and it turned off i tried leavin it alone for 1 hour... can anyone help

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The light on our Wii would not turn ON, and would not power up. No red, no yellow, nothing.

To fix, we unplug the Wii console. We turn the WIi console so that the back-side fan area is pointing towards the ceiling and then vacuum the fan area. Then we place it back into the Wii stand, plug it in, and the red light comes on. It powers up and works perfectly again. Obviously this won't solve everyone's issues (i.e. electronic component failures), but it has worked several times for us. Definitely worth a shot before shipping your unit off for repair.

I think the fan gets clogged and WIi protects itself from overheating, but do not really know why this works... but it does!

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Sooo... um my guess is: are the plugs in the right spot? like the video and audio, maybe the quebistonary motor isnt working. i mean the motor.

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    did it help?

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