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Dreamcast Resetting Itself

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Old 26-05-2003, 4:56 AM   #1
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Unhappy Dreamcast Resetting Itself

Hi, I've not played my DC in ages (february), so I got it out today and hooked it all up and went to play it. Then the problems started, after being turned on for a few while (im talking under a min) the console resets itself and loads the game up again. I've no idea what it could be. Curious to see what it was I opened up the console to see if I could see any loose connections inside or anything. This is where I noticed that the top was only held to the base by 1 screw, the others were all missing, and that the drive unit wasnt screwed to the main board (it was just resting on some rubber cushions), could this be a problem?. I brought the DC 2nd hand of ebay middle of last year and haven't had any trouble with it untill now :/ anyone have any ideas?
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Old 26-05-2003, 1:34 PM   #2
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Same thing happened with me when I bought my 2nd hand DC

Try here:

http://www.dcemulation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=4557

You should be able to find one or two fixes for it. I used a CD Lens cleaner and the problem hasn't happened since.
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Old 26-05-2003, 6:08 PM   #3
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I tried the lens cleaning and the "cleaning" of the power supply pins, and now it works fine :D

Thanks

Now where is jet set radio.............
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Old 26-05-2003, 6:45 PM   #4
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Glad it worked Well done mate
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Old 30-05-2003, 12:47 AM   #5
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sounds like the drive is on its way out, if im right ..cleaning the lense won,t help. i know this to be true because the same happened to me
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