Sunds like some sort of failsafe. This seems to be a
fairly common problem with many DC owners. I have
never had this problem myself, but I have always
assumed it was the power supply giving out, or perhaps
one of the other components. By "bending the six
contacts", are you refering to the pins where the
power supply is conected to the motherboard? I could
have swore there were more than 6. I suppose it could
be one of 2 other problems that I can think of. 1, it
could be the gdrom motherboard going out and the main
bios resets the entire dc because of hardware failure,
or 2 it could be as simple as the controller ports
going bad. Usually a main system bios reset is caused
by hardware failure nontheless. It may be cheaper to
buy another DC rather than replacing parts. Its like
in he old days when a horse breaks its leg. Take it
out in the pasture and shoot i.Uh oh....here comes
PETA....
--- JaYTV <jaytv@...> wrote:
> Hello, I was just wondering if anyone has a solution
> for both of my Dreamcasts that keep resetting. When
> they reset the screen goes black for a veriable
> length of time the it reboots with the white swirl
> screen. I have heard about bending the six contacts
> insie but it doesn't seem to work for me, any other
> solutions?
>
> Thanks...
>
> SHaMROCK/JaYTV/E-5
>
>
>


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