guys, its fine, honestly.... and if I was somebody else reading this post then I'd think the same thing and really if I did try to solder something and stuffed it I'd stick my hand up and say to a modchipper "I've tried and stuffed this up, can you fix it", people dont like helping if your being dishonest with them. honestly I wouldn't even try soldering on a chip thats the size of a 50cent piece, as I'm crap at that type of work (I cant even do make model planes) and I'd rather pay for someone to do it properly so there's no issues later.
So in saying that I tell you guys more of how I've tried to fix it since my Wii dropping experience. I've got a technico/solder friend that I work with and when I drop it I rang him around ahour later as I thought something with the DVD rom is wrong after it didn't work properly, as again it could boot and read the Zelda disk (but it wouldn't actually load) - so he cracked it open and checked the drive, he told me something had sized and he fixed that(not exactly sure what it was that he fixed), but still the same issue, so my plan from that was to see if someone had a Wii (as I read some forum posts about the Wii and NSTC games on PAL Wii's) that got bricked and then my techo friend could put in the new drive, which he's confident of doing.
29/04/2007 / Bathurst, NSW