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EhoaVash · Jan 26, 2014

I found this really scary. Well I wanted to move the wii u to the living room to play on the big tv, which I normally do on the weekends, this time I accidentally drop it ( on carpet ) from like one feet above while trying to move it. Nothing is wrong with it, looks fine so I plug it back in, and put in assassins creed 4 and the thing won't read the disc. I was playing it earlier this morning too, the disc is also perfectly clean. So I take out AC4, put in 3D world and the disc won't read, I'm like fuck fuck what do I do. the thing is clean etc but keeps saying disc error no matter what disc i put in.

so 5 minutes later, I retrace my step ..and drop the console again from on efeet but this time backwards cause I thought maybe something moved inside when I first dropped it. and bam the disc reads again

This console is fragile as FUCK.

GavinGT · Jan 26, 2014

That's some smart thinking.

Bony Manifesto · Jan 26, 2014

You fixed it by dropping it backwards?

Fularu · Jan 26, 2014

Or instead of dropping it, you could just send it for repairs?

Nah, too risky

PetriP-TNT · Jan 26, 2014

Story was funny, good effort OP

Cbajd5 · Jan 26, 2014

wait

what

maquiladora · Jan 26, 2014

So dropping it again fixed it?

Septimus · Jan 26, 2014

EhoaVash said:
so 5 minutes later, I retrace my step ..and drop the console again from on efeet but this time backwards cause I thought maybe something moved inside when I first dropped it. and bam the disc reads again

You really thought this would help? lol lucky you

TheGreatMightyPoo · Jan 26, 2014

inbeforewhatwillhappenwhenNintendodropsit

Solid Samus · Jan 26, 2014

Fularu said:
Or instead of dropping it, you could just send it for repairs?

Nah, too risky

hahaha

glad to know good old home style electronics violence was able to help ya here though. I was only ever able to fix a Gamecube that way.

ShirAhava · Jan 26, 2014

Things break when they are dropped. Don't they?

Daffy Duck · Jan 26, 2014

There's no games to play anyway.

Mr-Joker · Jan 26, 2014

So you "fixed" your problem by dropping the Wii U, that's pretty stupid way of "fixing" it. Why didn't you just call Nintendo to get it repaired?

Linkyn · Jan 26, 2014

I literally stepped onto my Wii U after falling off the windowsill in my bedroom once and nothing happened. Guess you just got really unlucky (or maybe lucky, since you seem to have fixed the issue).

tokyostomp · Jan 26, 2014

I had a good laugh. Glad it worked out for you OP. Hopefully it won't be a issue going forward.

Hopefully you won't need to drop your WiiU from a height of 1 foot on a regular basis.

MazeHaze · Jan 26, 2014

He dropped it like it was hot AND put his thing down flipped it and reversed it.

Pretty clever.

Perfect Cha0s · Jan 26, 2014

EhoaVash said:
I found this really scary. Well I wanted to move the wii u to the living room to play on the big tv, which I normally do on the weekends, this time I accidentally drop it ( on carpet ) from like one feet above while trying to move it. Nothing is wrong with it, looks fine so I plug it back in, and put in assassins creed 4 and the thing won't read the disc. I was playing it earlier this morning too, the disc is also perfectly clean. So I take out AC4, put in 3D world and the disc won't read, I'm like fuck fuck what do I do. the thing is clean etc but keeps saying disc error no matter what disc i put in.

so 5 minutes later, I retrace my step ..and drop the console again from on efeet but this time backwards cause I thought maybe something moved inside when I first dropped it. and bam the disc reads again

This console is fragile as FUCK.

I.. uh..

That's not how it works.

ScreenSplitter · Jan 26, 2014

EhoaVash said:
This console is fragile as FUCK.

Or; don't drop expensive electronics. If you had a 360 and nudged it too much when it was on, it'd fuck your disc up.

SporeCrawler · Jan 26, 2014

EhoaVash said:
I found this really scary. Well I wanted to move the wii u to the living room to play on the big tv, which I normally do on the weekends, this time I accidentally drop it ( on carpet ) from like one feet above while trying to move it. Nothing is wrong with it, looks fine so I plug it back in, and put in assassins creed 4 and the thing won't read the disc. I was playing it earlier this morning too, the disc is also perfectly clean. So I take out AC4, put in 3D world and the disc won't read, I'm like fuck fuck what do I do. the thing is clean etc but keeps saying disc error no matter what disc i put in.

so 5 minutes later, I retrace my step ..and drop the console again from on efeet but this time backwards cause I thought maybe something moved inside when I first dropped it. and bam the disc reads again

This console is fragile as FUCK.

no you usually dont drop consoles

TheGreatMightyPoo said:
inbeforewhatwillhappenwhenNintendodropsit

didnt Nintendo support NES until recently.

even if they drop the WiiU they will still accept repairs for it.

SuperSah · Jan 26, 2014

That's really cool!

Infact, if I drop my Wii, maybe I can get my disks to read again. I think something's lodged in it.

Alpha_eX · Jan 26, 2014

I remember accidentally kicking my Mega Drive / Genesis while playing Sonic 3 and getting to the level select screen.

Terra · Jan 26, 2014

FlynnCL · Jan 26, 2014

EhoaVash said:
so 5 minutes later, I retrace my step ..and drop the console again from on efeet but this time backwards cause I thought maybe something moved inside when I first dropped it. and bam the disc reads again

That's... what?

And it worked?

That's actually wonderful.

Solid Samus · Jan 26, 2014

Perfect Cha0s said:
I.. uh..

That's not how it works.

is it not?

EhoaVash said:
and bam the disc reads again

ElTorro · Jan 26, 2014

So a drop saved the Wii U?

Doomshroom · Jan 26, 2014

Haha,

ScreenSplitter · Jan 26, 2014

Doomshroom said:
Haha, sorry about the Wii U.

Well aren't you delightful.

Baleoce · Jan 26, 2014

EhoaVash said:
so 5 minutes later, I retrace my step ..and drop the console again from on efeet but this time backwards cause I thought maybe something moved inside when I first dropped it. and bam the disc reads again

/dead

coolasj19 · Jan 26, 2014

OP drops console and it stops reading disk.
Solution? Drop it from same place, but backwards.
WiiU saved!

Puru · Jan 26, 2014

That's how i like to repair stuff, good job op.

Unknown One · Jan 26, 2014

If it worked it worked. Glad it worked out for you.

Vlade · Jan 26, 2014

Nintendo should just release games on phones. I drop my phone all the time and it is still perfect. That or all my drops are just canceling each other out.

BY2K · Jan 26, 2014

By dropping it backward, I think the Wii U went back in time.

Daffy Duck · Jan 26, 2014

Alpha_eX said:
I remember accidentally kicking my Mega Drive / Genesis while playing Sonic 3 and getting to the level select screen.

Reminds of a time when I was about 8 (many years ago) my friend had slept over at my house and we had his mega drive set up on my tv and the cables went passed my bed, on my way to the toilet I caught the wire and made the console with sonic 1 playing come crashing cartridge first on the floor, the graphics went all weird, like sprites all over the screen/sky and the sky was green, a quick reboot and it was fine.

HeySeuss · Jan 26, 2014

How do you drop it from only a foot high as you're walking? Do you have arms that hang below your knees?

KaOTiK · Jan 26, 2014

I remember like 8 years ago someone put a video up of dragging a Gamecube from behind a car and it flying all over the place and then they went inside plugged it in and it worked haha

Herb Alpert · Jan 26, 2014

BY2K said:
By dropping it backward, I think the Wii U went back in time.

and people say that WiiU is poor technology...

Baleoce · Jan 26, 2014

Vlade said:
Nintendo should just release games on phones. I drop my phone all the time and it is still perfect. That or all my drops are just canceling each other out.

You must be dropping it an even amount forwards and backwards. It's the only plausible explanation.

opticalmace · Jan 26, 2014

HeySeuss said:
How do you drop it from only a foot high as you're walking? Do you have arms that hang below your knees?

Sometimes people pick things up or put them down.

EhoaVash · Jan 26, 2014

HeySeuss said:
How do you drop it from only a foot high as you're walking? Do you have arms that hang below your knees?

ofcourse not <.> I crouched to pick the thing up and while it was on my hands, i dropped it

superpickleman · Jan 26, 2014

Dropping your console backwards to be the new blowing into cartridges.

Tripon · Jan 26, 2014

I uh,.... what?

TheSpoiler · Jan 26, 2014

Imagine if you would have called an ambulance. WIIUWIIUWIIUWIIU

Kill me.

dripdripsplash · Jan 26, 2014

Hahahahah. So you actually dropped it again to fix it.

Ingenious.

HeySeuss · Jan 26, 2014

EhoaVash said:
ofcourse not <.> I crouched to pick the thing up and while it was on my hands, i dropped it

So you crouch walked backwards to retrace your steps?

GrayFoxPL · Jan 26, 2014

You have a magic carpet.

Off-Kilter · Jan 26, 2014

Glad it worked out for you OP

Radec · Jan 26, 2014

Imagine what happens when Nintendo is the one that will drop the WiiU

Yuuichi · Jan 26, 2014

This is what makes working with tech so worth it to me. Sometimes, the fixes are stranger than the problems.

Arttemis · Jan 26, 2014

I totaled my car once. Was really scared that it would be ruined so I retraced my steps five minutes later and drove into the wall again at the Sam espeed but in reverse and now it's fine.

These cars are fragile as fuck!

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