Id be really careful telling someone not too techy (apparent from his questions) to "softmod" their own wii console.
Im getting about 2-3 wii consoles in a week now for unbricking. These 2-3 consoles owners are the smart ones that took NAND backups prior to softmodding so there consoles could be recovered.
They are paying $180 for a infectus to be soldered onto their NAND and the NAND reprogrammed externally.
Nintendo CAN tell that you have soft-modded your console and your warranty is void as soon as you play around with any IOS files. If you send the console to nintendo after bricking it you are looking at $250 for a replacement motherboard.
Moral of this story is, Get the job done properly first time around.
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