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Sluggish and resets with disk in
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2022 6:19 pm
by krovellium
Bootedup my dreamcast (which has a dead CMOS battery.) Whenever i boot it with a game, it always resets, asks me for the date again, and then very slowly puts me back at the menu. When it does read, it leaves these weird circular scratches. Also, it changes the video resolution after the reset (shown in video)
Here’s a video of the resetting.
https://youtu.be/QHxyCBFTxFI
Anything i could do to fix this? I heard soldering the main motherboard power connector can fix this
Re: Sluggish and resets with disk in
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2022 9:59 pm
by krovellium
Found the problem, the disk head had a ton of debris on it. But the ring problem still stands. Any help?
Re: Sluggish and resets with disk in
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2022 10:28 am
by Gocha
With "the ring problem" you mean it's still leaving the circular scratches? what did cleaning the debris solved? I'm trying to understand what is the current state of the problem after cleaning.
Re: Sluggish and resets with disk in
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2022 11:15 am
by kremiso
You could open the console, removing the top plastic unit, and make start the disc spinning (turning on the DC), just to check if it's the laser unit that is scratching it.
Otherwise it could be something inside of the top unit
Re: Sluggish and resets with disk in
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2022 2:00 pm
by krovellium
Gocha wrote:With "the ring problem" you mean it's still leaving the circular scratches? what did cleaning the debris solved? I'm trying to understand what is the current state of the problem after cleaning.
It’s not really a scratch, it’s more of a differently colored strip of the CD