Sd slot stopped working

After i installed the twilight hack and home brew channel everything was fine. the channel worked i was able to play duck hunt etc. when i went to add mame on my sd and put it back in i got the message "the device installed in the SD card slot cant be used.. i tried other sd cards that i have.. still wont work.. i even reformatted the sd card still wont read it.. i wonder if anyone else here has had this problem because now my sd slot isnt working..can anyone help me? i tried everything to my knowledge.. i tried resetting it, unpluging it for a while re plugging it in. i almost reformatted the wii but i didn't want to lose everything if it would not help .. please someone help me.. thank you..

[brentbizzle]

I'm not sure if reformatting your Wii will help, but it seems worth a try. Haven't heard of this problem before. Maybe something just burned out on your Wii.

right after i installed homebrew? thats kinda weird... its not reading any sd cards...any other suggestions? i dont want to lose my miis, and saved games if i reformat.

[brentbizzle]

The thing is the only thing that was 'installed' was the homebrew channel. All the homebrew that's on your SD card, none of that is installed on your Wii... the homebrew channel merely reads it off the SD card. I can't imagine that would do something to your SD card, although I dunno what did mess it up.

ive got the same problem.

i installed it and worked no worries, then turned it off, next day replaced 512 sd with a 2gb... didnt work. i thought maybe coz of a limit or something on size of card.

so i put 512 back in and no channels appear, went into the memory of wii and said it could not be used.. used the latest pal twilight hack (as of yesterday 26/8/08) and have firmware 3.2E??

any ideas out there???

if i was to reformat, could i get the stuff i bought of the VC back again for free?

oh, i had left the 24wiiconnect on, but i dont think any updates have happened. and it was only overnite


cheers

[brentbizzle]

It's gotta be a hardware malfunction. I can't think of any reason why it would happen other than that. Could be a faulty solder joint, or maybe one of the pins meant to line up with a contact on the SD card is bent and not contacting.

As far as a Nintendo update, that wouldn't do a thing.

well i got mine going again...

i dont know what it is though BUT ... rzilla, is ur SD card one of those little cards in an adapter? mine is, i locked /unlocked/slide the thing in the way it snt working and it works no worries, tried it on both my cards and they both work now...


hopefully works for you...

who thought something simple could be such a pain in the a**