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Posted on Aug 14, 2009

Wii Balance Board Lights won't stay on

I have tried a number of sets of new batteries and press the sync button, in a similar way to the controllers when I change the batteries, except the blue lights on the Balance Board don't stay lighting.

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Well - had the same problem, even got a walkthru from Nintendo Support. I was ready to pack it to ship off when, demonstrating everything I had done to a friend -- the darn thing started working again! I think what was going on was the sync was "poor" with the console -- it could sort of see the balance board but not enough to actually work. I did the red-button-on-the-board/ red-button-on-the-Wii thing (press board button then quickly press the console button) several times until it "took" solidly. Don't give up -- keep trying. Yeah their hardware/software has a bug......

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Well, i think you need to wait for when the game asks for you to turn it on, if not, did you press sync on the balance board at the same time as the wii?

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