Wild guess, but just today I had a similar problem with an iPad that wouldn’t connect to Windows resulting in the same error message. Changing the cable worked for me.

I can highly recommend installing Batocera for emulation. I got many Wii games running on an i3-2120 (may require some tweaking of settings on some games) - and I believe your CPU is more powerful than mine.

I have later upgraded my Batocera-box to an i5-6400 with a low end Nvidia-card which runs Wii and Ps2 flawlessly.