Thank you this fixed my problem! I've had to do this before 5 years ago, but this time bending the pins back worked, the alcohol did nothing.

Great to see somebody protecting the device when working on it 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Thank u sooooooo much my guy, u don't know how happy you've made a huge fan of Dreamcast with this exact problem! Appreciate u

You mate are a legend. My dreamcast was rebooting every minute before i decided to follow this video. Played for over 30mins and no reboots so far. Thanks heaps

Thank you so much for this video. A really easy step by step which has now saved my console. Retro gaming hero!

I can't believe this worked! Saved my beloved black Dreamcast! Thank you kind sir!

Always check the fan connector as well, if it's lose it'll cause these issues, mines has a loose connection and acts up sometimes and I just pop the case off push it in a little and boom back to gaming 😎

THANK YOU, I WAS ABLE TO REPAIR MY DREAMCAST WHICH DIDNT BOOT PROPERLY!! YOU ARE A LIFESAVER!!!!

It was tremendous help. Thanks a lot mate.

Thanks man. Ive been looking for a fix to this problem.

you sir are a life saver thought it was going to be a tricky one and turn out to be so simple thank you soooooooo much

I was experiencing this problem on my DC...I just tried this method, thankfully didn't shock myself lol. I'll leave an edit if it ends up working! Great video!

Thank you this is very important about the safely of the dreamcast electronics this video has help me.

really appreciate the tutorial, i was thinking of selling the console for parts, so glad I get to keep a classic. thank you!

thank you so much , i did this step by step and it’s fixed the problem. Legend

this video was super helpful! my dreamcast had a lot of resistance when pulling the socket circuitboard from the socket power pins...i was afraid i'd break it...but it popped off after careful but strong pulling. i also used mini alcohol wipes (70% alcohol) and pressed it down on top of the pins all the way to the bottom and used it to rub off the barrier (think flossing action)...hopefully this will work..i'll wait an hour after cleaning, even though i know the alcohol evaporates quickly..i love my dreamcast too much update: my dreamcast won't start now :\ (will continue to troubleshoot maybe I missed a step in reinstallation) extra update: i didn't reconnect a piece that I removed to make screw installation easier...i think i will be ok im still going to wait for the alcohol to dry

Excellent video Mark, will definitely file this one away, in case my Dreamcast has any issues.

Thank you so much for the video. You saved my Dreamcast, and thanks to this I can use my VGA mod again. I literally cried when I did see it work again.

Thank you! Worked like a charm.

This worked for me. Thank you, sir.

Nice one Mark if this ever happens to my dreamcast I think I can manage to try this.

Muito obrigado com a sua ajuda meu DreamCast Sega Sports voltou a vida!

You are a legend Mate. Many thanks from Down Under.

Worked like a charm! Thanks

Thanks for this video Mark. It has saved a very angry sounding,resetting dreamcast from console heaven.

Thanks so much this fixe my problem, annoying random reboots gone.

Yo it worked! Thank you so much

Tanks!! So far so good 👍

Thank you for this, there is not much info about this issue and I thought it was my GDemu. Will try it tonight

Great video, works a treat. As an aside, I tried this on one of my 'work in progress' dreamcast's and managed to snap the little tab sticking up near the power supply cables for the gd rom (the ones you refer to in your video when opening it out). Do you know what this tab does? My gd rom fails to power up now :(

Honestly, my Dreamcast hasn’t reset once , thank you

I agree mate the Dreamcast is a very underated machine, mine is also very yellow. Great how-to video as always mate, never had this problem with mine but I think it's fairly common.

Definitely a common problem with these consoles - I had the same problem on my original DC. Pins just needed a bit of cleaning. :) The DC also has a slightly annoying protection circuit which holds it in Reset if the fan is spinning too slowly, or stopped. So if people are still getting random resets, check to see if the fan is spinning OK and isn't clogged. (I bypassed this circuit on my "test" DC, but it's not recommended.) Also, important tip - remember to always put back the plastic insulation sheet under the PSU. ;)

I will try this cuz it looks super easy and without the need to mess with any big components.

This has been bothering me for years and now its fixed thank you very much ;)

Super helpful!

Hi I have a problem I was playing Skies of Arcadia and my dreamcast shut off alone, and it never turn on again, when I press the power button the orange light flashes by a middle second and then it shut off again, I tried to change the power cable and it didn't work either, maybe is overheating, any way to fix it?

Thanks, this is a very helpful video. I need to do this to my Dreamcast soon. :)

5:10 FYI: 99.9% pure isopropyl alcohol actually does conduct electricity. In fact, it conducts electricity far better than diluted alcohol does. The advantage of 99.9% pure is that it evaporates very quickly and doesn't leave water or deposit mineral residue.

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Thanks for the video Mark, the whole process seems less daunting now. Is there a drying time for the alcohol before you'd advise turning it back on? Sorry if it's a stupid question. My presumption is it's not a necessity to wait after reassembly, because the solution can't conduct electricity as you mentioned?

Dude I'm going to try this tomo thanks you saved me a lot of money

I have a shit problem with mine. Everything works on it and I checked the Av Sauter points? I still can’t get audio or video? I also replaced the av cable? Please any suggestions

ty...it works

who is the single ahole that didn't like this video? This was awesome. Ty

Best intro ever

Hello, maybe you can help with my problem. I will shortly describe it: When i push power button it starts the fan, the red/orange light is on but it's not outputing the video (black screen), and the gd-rom is not spinning. By the way i think that the fan is working on a highest frequency (if there was any controller for the fan speed) because the fan in my other working DC is much more silent. Do you have any idea what can it be?

Damn excellent sir.. Tooth pick use amazing.. I like pipe cleaner or cheese cloth to clean electric.. But thank you.

Thanks a tone! This fixed it right up! terrifying but effective!

In the case the console does not reboot but it just cuts out of the game to the main dreamcast menu after a while. Would this be a solution to this ? Thanks

That sound it makes when he was cleaning the pins literally was hurting my teeth kind of like nails on a chalk board. It's so weird how it does that. My top and bottom front teeth all started to hurt lol I'm just thinking how crazy it is for that to happen.

I've got 2 DC's, both with this fault so I'll give this a go, TA!

Cool Vid Broski :) luvs it :)

sadly it still goes out for me. The dreamcast powers on and after like 10 seconds the picture cuts out but the orange light still stays on

My Dreamcast is going to a black screen during gameplay, mainly after a cutscene. I tried another game and it would start up for a second and then return to the home screen. Would this help those problems at all?

My previous dreamcast had a faulty fan that randomly stop spinning causing a black screen, I was able to play by simply manually spining the fan until it spins on its own, I sold that dreamcast as spare parts, now with a dreamcast I bought to play through the gdemu has the same problem but the fan does spin well, I tried cleaning the pins of the psu and my dreamcast still gives me a blank screen after a few seconds of being turned on, since I haven´t used it for a while I just assumed I needed another dreamcast, but at least after a few minutes of trying, you know, turning it on and off many times, eventually the dreamcast didn´t freeze and I could actually play for hours, of course the problem is still present, what would be the solution in my case?

7:55 the power switch cable was under the psu at the start, now it`s peeking out and over the top of the board

I've done this fix so many times in the past. Even when I had the Dreamcast back in 1999/2000. I had this problem early on and worked out this was this issue. After the fix, it worked for a little while but the problem always resurfaced and I could never really fix it...I wonder if there is anything else I could do to sort it out...?

The grey switch cable goes underneath of the power supply. 3:00 Not overtop of the power supply. 7:15

... I just bought a second hand dreamcast, and my problem is that the console turn on and than, i put the disk inside, and right when I close the door the console turns off. That's it, no reboot, it just stops working. Do you think trying as you did in the video could be useful? Thanks a lot :)

Merci 😍 Ça marche nickel Thanks🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠

Would 70% isopropyl alcohol be ok, as well? I do not want to proceed, unless otherwise stated. It's becoming difficult to find near pure rubbing alcohol.

About how much force should i be prepare to apply to lift the power board? Mine is very stubborn. I don't know if that means the pins are extra tight or if that means they are extra corroded.

my dreamcast freezes on the logo screen please help

Yayyy good job Sir and such an easy fix !! Luckily my 2 dreamcasts are in good shape but the noise they make is driving me insane! Are there any quiet Dreamcasts? My Gamecube is alot quieter is it supposed to be!?

My Dreamcast has those blue smudges inside them too, do you have an idea what they are? I'm just wondering :3

Are you using ''isopropyl'' alcohol for cleaning ??? (I'm sorry, i coulnd't hear wat you said )

Hopefully you see this mark so i have a dreamcast and basically it is not showing the picture or sound... the fan is going as fast as it can any chance its the same symptoms you saw with this one ???

I remember doing this years ago and worked perfectly. If you think about it if the DC had an external PSU and no modem it could have been even smaller at the time of release!

I love watching you screwing! ;o) I've never had this problem but now I know what to do :o)

My Dreamcast was having a similar issue. I tried this method and it still kept crashing. My problem was with the fan header being loose. I soldered it back into place and my issue was gone. I think my Dreamcast crashed because it wasn't reading a fan. I think I may have made it loose whenever I replaced the battery on the console.

Will 70% alcohol be okay? Or will it damage it

Mine resets over and over when I turn it on. Would this help?

What liquid does he use?

For me so far taking out the modem fix it

If like me you have your Dreamcast on top of another console move the two away from each other in my case i had mine on my Xbox 360 which got very hot I then moved my 360 and put it standing up next to my Dreamcast and it now works fine so don't take it apart if you are in this same situation

Sega should of asked Sony to design and build these.

The thing with this fix is that it isn't permanent. Those connectors would get dirty again and again in due time, so the fix would have to be done repeatedly, which is a bummer when you're actually trying to play something for hours at one time then in the middle of the session the connectors get sooty again and boom...again this boring thing of opening up the console and clean the shit out. It wouldn't really last a whole game sesh until the damn thing resets itself, so to speak losing the motivation to play your game and do the fix...for just a couple of hours to days until it gets sick again.

It didn't fix mine it only made it worse

Yalls power supply looks abit different then the US Dreamcast I noticed.

I'm a kid I don't want to get in my Dreamcast if I have one

underrated machine? it breaks constantly i wouldn't call that underrated