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

[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