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Re: Wii U Hard Freeze, Intense HORN!!! - Video included

noreply@noa.nintendo.com — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:31:00 GMT

everytime i turn it on it froze

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noreply@noa.nintendo.com — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:43:36 GMT

And one more to the list... When I play Nintendo Land, it 's locking up on me the same way.

The thing is, we've been playing 2 player NL all week with no problems. Today we were playing 3 players (instead of the normal 2 players) when we saw it.

We played two matches of Luigi's Mansion and 1 of Metroid before we hit it for the very first time. We thought it was a fluke. After having to pull the power, we started Metroid up again. This time it locked up before we could even start a game. After another unplugging/re-plugging, it froze at the mini game selection screen. We switched to SMB U, and so far no problems...

I hope it's for NL only... And that it's patched soon!

***Edited to remove personal information.***

Message was edited by: NOA_TECH_JOE

Re: Wii U Hard Freeze, Intense HORN!!! - Video included

noreply@noa.nintendo.com — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 05:53:55 GMT

I tried turning on my Wii U tonight; look what happened...

http://techforums.nintendo.com/message/80694#80694

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noreply@noa.nintendo.com — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:11:14 GMT

I've also tried disconnecting my router so my Wii can't go online, but still no solution.

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noreply@noa.nintendo.com — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:10:26 GMT

My Wii U keeps freezing everytime I start it up... While it's loading the Wii U interface on the screen and gamepad, it just freezes and plays the horn of death. Before this happened I tried installing a netflix update(It was the first time I was going to try the app) When the download finished it went into the install process and quickly gave me a message that the update data for the netflix was corrupted and it told me to go into the system memory and delete the data so I can redownload it once again. I went itno the system's memory and didn't find any data from netflix, only 2 hulu files(didn't even use it) and my black ops save file. Once I exited the system settings, when it was loading back into main menu it just froze and I couldn't shut off the system by pressing the power button, I had to uplug the power cord. Now everytime I turn on my Wii U about 5-10 seconds in about the time where its loading the interface, it freezes. I can't get past it to configure any settings or anything. Even if there is an update thats going to fix this, I wouldn't even be able to download it because I can't get past the startup screen. Contacting Nintendo tomorrow to replace it. I bought the Deluxe set just this morning, and this happens.

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noreply@noa.nintendo.com — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:46:45 GMT

Add me to the list of those that have this issue.

I'd used the USB wireless addapter from my Wii on the Wii U, so when the horn started up again yesterday I just unplugged the adapter after unplugging the console. That has fixed the problem for the time being.

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noreply@noa.nintendo.com — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 04:40:14 GMT

I havent turned on my system lately; I thought a patch would be available this week like some member on reddit had reported but nothing yet. To be on the safe side, im going to leave it off until a patch has arrived. I bought my system for the online. Not to not have online... if i wanted that.. i would have stuck with the wii.

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noreply@noa.nintendo.com — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:14:58 GMT

Ethernet solution does not work. I am using the adapter but like you mentioned in your post disconnecting the ethernet seems to be a good work around so you can play the game without it freezing.

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noreply@noa.nintendo.com — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 10:23:44 GMT

You should see a 3DS when it crashes, It does the same exact thing, even the Manual volume slider fails to work. It sounds like one of those disorienting sound devices that the Military uses as weapons. I am getting the Wii U soon and hopefully, they fix it. I am afraid to use headphones while playing GBA ambassador games on the 3ds or putting it into sleep while in a game because of the noise. If Nintendo does not fix this problem on the Wii U (its still not fixed for 3ds), I will be afraid to use the headphone jack on the gamepad for netflix and amazon prime as i could lose my hearing it it does the "Horn" while using it in gamepad only mode.

Re: Wii U Hard Freeze, Intense HORN!!! - Video included

noreply@noa.nintendo.com — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 05:30:44 GMT

Recently I've had the system lock up more than a few times while playing and I've discovered why.

The OS has a bug in it with Miiverse.

All the games esp Nintendoland have MiiVerse intregated into it and the system locks up when trying to play.

The fix for the Wii U owners is to either wait until next week for Nintendo's patch to come out or

1. Turn off your system,

2. Reboot

3. Disconnect network connection

4. Reboot

5. Reconnect to network connection

Those steps will cause the system to delete the Miiverse cache and redownload. Temporary fix until Nintendo's patch.

You may also want to try setting the MiiVerse to use English only. Some other users on here are stating that is the fix.