{"id":787,"date":"2009-06-03T10:50:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T15:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/?p=787"},"modified":"2009-07-13T08:17:55","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T13:17:55","slug":"wii-power-cord-freezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2009\/06\/03\/wii-power-cord-freezer\/","title":{"rendered":"Wii Power Cord Freezer Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Wii system was working fine since I last wrote about it not working: hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2009\/03\/02\/wii-power-none-then-yes\/<\/a> until I discovered it wouldn’t turn on after I moved some things around yesterday. It either wasn’t working beforehand, since we did have a sudden house power down then on again Power situation on Sunday, or that didn’t affect it and it was my turning the power surge power strip off …<\/p>\n

In any case I tried waiting and waiting and nothing worked. So I took out that battery, that did nothing in any configuration-al way I tried (amounts of time waiting with everything unplugged, or the battery in or out …) so I waited overnight with it unplugged. That should do it.<\/p>\n

Not. Didn’t work.<\/p>\n

So I searched online again and found someone referencing how the ‘freezer trick’ worked with her Wii power cord, so that sparked my mind to recall that’s one way to reset some other things, and I put the entire Wii power cord into a gallon-size Ziploc bag, and put it in the freezer for about 10 minutes or so. When I took it out it was very cold. I plugged it in and voila! It worked again!<\/p>\n

Next time this happens I’ll try that freezer trick with the little battery first, to see if that affects it or not.<\/p>\n

I never did find an actual description of what the freezer trick was in the case above that I saw the reference to, I only imagine it must be similar to what I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our Wii system was working fine since I last wrote about it not working: hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2009\/03\/02\/wii-power-none-then-yes\/<\/a> until I discovered it wouldn’t turn on after I moved some things around yesterday. It either wasn’t working beforehand, since we did have a sudden house power down then on again Power situation on Sunday, or that didn’t affect it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39],"tags":[113,112,80],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-games","tag-power","tag-wii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":677,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2009\/03\/02\/wii-power-none-then-yes\/","url_meta":{"origin":787,"position":0},"title":"Wii power – none – then yes!","author":"Maisy","date":"Monday, March 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"We had a lot of rain the past few days, and then snow, 5\", yesterday (Sunday, March 1, 2009) and during the snow storm on Sunday the power actually went out a few times, just for a couple of seconds, and a flicker or two here and there. 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