my wii went balck and white and after trying to fix it, i completely lost the whole picture… how do i fix it
i got a wii console and my dogs chewed up the cord that connects it to the tv. so i went to circuit city and bought a new one, but instead of the usual yellow white and red plugs, there are five, including blue and green. everything worked fine when we switched the cord except that everything was black and white (only the wii, not normal tv) so, the problem was with the wii. so, i was messing around with it trying to fix it and i switched it to the 480p which is used for hdtv or edtv, when it should be on 480i which is for normal tv, not knowing what would happen, and the screen went blank ( i dont have an hdtv television) so now i can’t fix it because there is no picture when i turn the wii on, and i cant see the menu to switch it back. so how do i fix the wii to even see a picture again, and how do i get color back after that? thank you so much in advance for anyone who can help me.
You’ve chosen component cables, not composite cables.
Component cables are for TVs that support component input; it seems as if yours does not. So, you’ve probably plugged your Wii’s component cable such that the cable plugged into your TVs video jack is the one that transmits only brightness information (and thus, the B&W picture); ALL parts of a component cable must be plugged in to get the correct picture.
Now, the Wii is trying to transmit 480p signals, but your TV can’t receive them; so, you see nothing at all.
Your Wii is not the problem; you just have the wrong cables.
First, if you can get the correct cable, get it. The Wii might automatically revert to 480i if a composite cable is plugged in, because these cannot transmit 480p. If that happens, great, you’ll see everything fine again. Either way, you WILL need this cable (the same kind as the one your dogs had for lunch).
If that doesn’t work, see if anyone you know has a TV that supports progressive scanning, then plug in your Wii to set it back to the old settings. Then, hook it up to your TV the old way (with an old-style composite cable, red-white-yellow), and it will work.
If you don’t have access to such a TV, or if simply getting a composite cable didn’t switch the Wii back to 480i, I’d probably contact Nintendo Customer Service to see how to fix this issue; maybe they’ll give you a way to reset the Wii to “factory” settings. Apparently, the level of their customer service is something approaching legendary.
http://www.nintendo.com/corp/contact.jsp
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