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How To Install The Wii-Clip

Posted on 16th Aug 2008 @ 7:38 AM

How to install the WII-CLIP, step by step instructions and troubleshooting
Step 1, If you have order your chip and clip pre-soldered go to step 2, otherwise line the WII-CLIP onto the corresponding MOD chip board, and solder all pins.
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 Step 2, the backside of chip board, you can see there are some test points on the PCB, now you have to protect them avoid the short circuit. Use electrical tape or a sticky pad. Make sure it's covered nice and neat as this part of the chip hovers over the CDROM vent so the less obstruction to the airflow the better - This step does not apply to the WiiKey clip
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 Step 3, now the WII-CLIP is ready to be plugged onto the DVD drive of your Wii console. Hover the black part of the clip over the IC (it only obviously fits onto one due to the size) until you feel "fall" into place. The clip should look parallel to it's surrounding chips (don't try fitting it on a diagonal position) There will be 2 resistors with should be almost flush to the clip as you push it down which will indicate it's in the right position
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Step 4, push down on the clip firmly to place it, you may or may not hear a "click" when it's pushed into place, look at it from the side, the click should be almost touching the PCB board, push firmly all the way around until your happy the clip can't possibly go down anymore.

IMPORTANT : MAKE SURE YOU POSITION IT CORRECTLY AS IN STEP 3 BEFORE DOING THIS AS YOU MAY DAMAGE YOUR PINS DUE TO THE FORCE YOU HAVE TO USE TO COMPLETE STEP 4
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Step 5, Cover the top of the clip, so as not to short out the the solder points when you put the DVD drive back in. Again use electrical/insulation tape and don;t plaster it all over make sure it's nice and neat so as not to cover the vent up to allow airflow.

TIP : TRY TESTING YOUR CLIP WITH THE DVD DRIVE STILL OUT BUT PLUGGED INTO THE POWER AND DATA CABLE WHILST IT'S STILL OUT OF THE CASE BEFORE ASSEMBLING IT BACK TOGETHER AGAIN

REMOVING THE CLIP
If you want to pull out the WII-CLIP from your Wii mother board, you CAN'T pull it out by your hand directly, you MUST use a very sharp tool like a small knife , to prize the WII-CLIP off by the black, and remember you CAN'T prize one corner only, you MUST prize all 4 corners to make it leave the big D2C chipset smooth! Otherwise the very fragile pins of WII-CLIP will be damaged

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That's it your finished, all very easy and simple.



Troubleshooting:
 If you have installed the chip and get an ERROR CANNOT READ DISK when trying any DVD game backup or original then try the following:

  • Check your clip is flush with the PCB board and you have pushed down hard enough to get it to fit flush (scary process but your board can take quite a bit of pressure), it should be "hugged" by 2 resistors on 2 sides of the clip:
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  • Check the solder points on the clip: are any touching? shorting lines of other points? are not touching the clip to chip?
  • Check that the back of the clip is not shorting to the board, you should have covered the points before installing the chip
  • Check you have the correct chipset, you should have done a serial search before purchasing the chip and clip, the D2C Chipset chips which you are inserting the clip onto should have GC2-D2C stamped on them in gold writing, all others will be a D2B chipset including GC2-DMS
  • If you are testing for the first time using a backup make sure you have used the correct burning software and media (see left hand column)
  • Whilst the Wii is switched on press and hold the power button for 5 seconds, then press again to switch the console back on, if you still get the same error then switch the wii back into it's standby mode (off), then press and hold the power button for 5 seconds to switch it on.
  • Carefully remove the Clip and re-install it, it possible that some of the connections inside the clip didn't make a connection the first time