My Treamcast portable DC unit has been dead for a few months now but I figured I would take the chance someoen could help here since I received so much help for my recently deceased Saturn. Here's the issue - pretty mucvh right after I received it in the mail, the unit stopped workign during games. It would freeze up at a screen and the drive would stop spinning. Because the ***** at OtakuMW wouldn't do anytrhign about it I was reduced to slapping it around to make it work which it often did, bu of course would feeeze and the drive die eventaully enough. Not too long after it stopped working at all. The drive refused to spin whatsoever at powerup and just sat there. Occasionally the DC swirl logo would appear hazily on the display (from the bios, i assume?) but the drive reamined dead and remaisn dead to this day. Does anyone have any suggetions as to what I could do here? Do I need to adjust the laser or tweka somethign on my drive, or is the drive itself dead and need replacing? Or is the whole damn thing shot? I have opened the unit up and its innards are somewhat accessible though with some dificulty because of the mess introduced by the attached LCD display inside its guts. any help is TREMENDOUSLY appreciated. I dropped a LOT of cash on this thing and really need it to work as I travel often. Much thanks for any suggestions and help!
In fact I`ve seen this happen with stock Dreamcasts, the drive just remained `dead`, it turned out that de lid switch was dodgy... maybe have a look at that.
I had some problems with my treamacast, when it arrived, they were similar like yours, it didn't get the info that a disk was in the drive, after some time I found out, what to do: there's a part on the drive-lid which has some grip, try pressing a bit harder down on that part, it worked for me ... regards Mark
Thanks guys but could you kindly explain this in alittle more detail? Which switch is this and where is it located, and exactly what to do with it? Thanks enormously.
Well it's not the drive - I replaced it with a working one, stuck it in, and still nothing, so it's not just the drive, or the lid switch, etc. Howeevr when I do put the drive in a working DC I can hear the loadup sound but the drive does not spin. So it looks as if the drive itself is receivin no power in the Treamcast - coul something be wrong with the power board?
Your treamcast is burst,the guy who I used to work for in his store still chips and repairs consoles,and has had a few of these in.It's cheap components and it costs more to repair,than to just replace the guts completely.You should stick with official consoles,these third party clones are awful when it comes to cheap parts and bad production runs.Part and parcel of cheap shit,and treamcast is cheap at wholesale.
I don't know about that; the guts inside are al official SEGA components, real DC guts. Of course what this means is that the DCs they used to make Treamcasts were never new, but likely used or hell, even junked/near death. Laso the power board is of course a cheap cusotm component and could likely be screwing things up as well. You're right Nintendomad ; it doesn't nmake sense to pay for a Treamcats - not at the crazy price they sell for - when in essence you are geting a bloody used and poorly put together DC.
