Wii heating up

[fishnhuntnboy]

Does anyones wii heat up when it has been off for a few days. Theres days i walk by it and can here that it is running but isnt on and is warm. Does this happen to anyone else and is this normal?

Thanks

[spearchucker]

You probably have the Wii Connect24 standby turned on. This keeps the wireless connection alive and downloads updates and gets messages automatically. It draws about 10 watts in this mode, but there is no fan or anything on, so I don't know what you are hearing.

[zamboni]

When I was married, and before the ex wife took the Wii, we had it in the bedroom so it would grab signal from the computers router. That thing would turn on in the middle of the night to get its updates and wake us both up because of how bright that blue light is. I can sleep through lightning, but couldn't sleep through that

[spearchucker]

The blinking blue light can be turned off if you want, or shut the Wii Connect in standby mode off altogether. The blue glowing light means you have a message or update waiting for you.

[bobbymalone]

is it off off or just standby off?

mine is off when the light is red, on standby when the light is yellow, and on when the light is green.

when i hold down the power button on the wii remote it will only go into standby. I have to hold the power button on the machine to shut it down.

[fishnhuntnboy]

i will try all of that out. when i turn it off i just use the remotes to turn the wii on and off. i will try and hold down the button and see if it works. thanks for the advise. hope this takes care of it.

[bobbymalone]

now that i think about it, i am pretty sure there is a switch on the back to cut all power to the thing.

[zamboni]

now that i think about it, i am pretty sure there is a switch on the back to cut all power to the thing.

Or you can pull the power plug. But yeah, I think there is a switch