Dreamcast cd reading issue repair

This instructable shows you how to open up your dreamcast and adjust a small potentiometer to adjust the power going to the laser. this is pretty simpe requires no special tools or knowledge of electronic repair, it only requires a careful hand an common seance.

I recently bought a dreamcast off ebay, then a friend gave me a free one...isn't that usually how it works heh. so i went to cleaning the dreamcast and went to test the free dream cast and sure enough it wouldn't read any discs. so i went to looking around and only found a couple of helpfully videos on this subject but no instructables on the issue, so i decided to make one so some one can revive an old dreamcast instead of tossing it out

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Step 1: WARNING PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK

I just want to make it clear that i am in no way responsible if you some how break your dreamcast or electrocute yourself

Comments

[KL505420]

Oh Hell Yeah!!!! Had my Dreamcast collecting dust. But no more. Thanks u sillyzombie.

[sillyzombie666]

lol glad to hear, im playing jet grind radio right now... i accidentally deleted my save file ...sadface so im replaying it, i think im right back at where i was


and remeber no need for thanks just send money lol

[KL505420]

Lol. I could but i spent all my dough at ebay just to buy some dreamcast games. Thanks to you. You made me broke. But God bless you.

[sillyzombie666]

you do know you can just burn copys of dreamcast games, no mods needed. all my games are burned, a few aren;t only because i found them cheap http://www.etsy.com/shop/sillyzombie666 theres the shop i run i put all sorts of goodies on there

[KL505420]

So how would you go about burning dreamcast games?

[tloman]

Holy crap! This fixed my dreamcast! <3

[sillyzombie666]

glad i was able to help man, when i got my second dream cast i looked everywhere to find this info only found like 2 spots for it so i decided to spread the info. the dream cast i fixed is not happily at my friends house , the one i fixed the controller ports on is still on my desk

[zazenergy]

Glad you got yours working! Thanks for sharing.

[sillyzombie666]

thanks, i was gonna resell it but i think my brother my get it from me, i still need to resolder the tv cables for it though