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tom61 · **Joined:** Fri Mar 25, 2005 6:51 pm **Posts:** 1517

Recheck your solder connections, some cold solder joints can be dislodged by heat expansion. Also, see if anything is getting hotter than it should right before it shuts off.

hailrazer · **Posted:** Thu Oct 09, 2008 1:58 pm

Well it was the 7808 getting to hot.

Weird because even when the screen shut off the 7808 was still ouputting the proper voltage.

Put a fan on it and the screen stayed on, so I added an aluminum heatsink from a Retro Duo and I spent today putting in the fan on the back where it will suck the hot air out.

I should be done with it tomorrow and posts finished pics

kasar · **Posted:** Thu Oct 09, 2008 2:31 pm

awesome job there hailrazer
cant wait to see it finished.

sadly ,I discovered too late how much wonderfull the DC is :cry:

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now I understand why nintendo ported skies of arcadia to the gamecube ^^

vskid · **Joined:** Fri Mar 25, 2005 8:25 am **Posts:** 6313

I assume you got my Dreamcast and it works?

hailrazer · **Posted:** Thu Oct 09, 2008 3:36 pm

vskid wrote:

I assume you got my Dreamcast and it works?

Oh yes I did and yes it does. Thanks

Now I have an extra because the other one was working fine I just had wired it wrong. :oops:

Turbo Tax 1.0 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:24 pm

hailrazer wrote:

Well it was the 7808 getting to hot.

Weird because even when the screen shut off the 7808 was still ouputting the proper voltage.

Put a fan on it and the screen stayed on, so I added an aluminum heatsink from a Retro Duo and I spent today putting in the fan on the back where it will suck the hot air out.

I should be done with it tomorrow and posts finished pics

In my GCp I wired two 7808s in parallel and I think it helped to solve the same problem
I did also add a larger heatsink though so maybe having two did nothing

hailrazer · **Posted:** Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:16 pm

Well I just have to wire the batteries and Pcb and I'm done.

Here's a look at the insides before I add the batteries.

The PicoPsu is underneath the Dreamcast Motherboard:

I will post finished pics tomorrow afternoon, I'm tired and going to sleep. :wink:

Mario · **Posted:** Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:03 pm

Holy crap! Finished already?

Nice work. That looks great.

-=FamilyGuy=- · **Joined:** Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:19 am **Posts:** 159

Great works ! You totally beat me to it (kind of pwnt to be honest), even if I haven't worked on mine for almost a year.

I can't wait to see it done !

FG

hailrazer · **Posted:** Sat Oct 11, 2008 12:57 pm

How do I make a youtube video of it. I have a 1.3Meg camera in my laptop but when I try to make a 320x240 video it ends up being around 1gig :shock:

Is there a easier way to make a small video ?

Mario · **Posted:** Sat Oct 11, 2008 1:20 pm

hailrazer wrote:

How do I make a youtube video of it. I have a 1.3Meg camera in my laptop but when I try to make a 320x240 video it ends up being around 1gig :shock:

Is there a easier way to make a small video ?

Put it into Windows Movie Maker, then save it. WMM saves it as a WMV file, which has a very small file size.

hailrazer · **Posted:** Sat Oct 11, 2008 2:44 pm

Finished

Here's the finished pics

I added a fan in the back as you can see and put slots in it like the original Dreamcast has.

I put the orange Led shining down on the Dreamcast Logo. You like ?

Well that was sure fun.

I have to finish the cover for the back but I'm glad the rest is done so I think I will put it off for a few days.

Bigmac · **Joined:** Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:38 am **Posts:** 59

It's gorgeous! Perfection!

grossaffe · **Posted:** Sat Oct 11, 2008 4:02 pm

wow. just... that looks AMAZING.

I'd like a better look at that joystick. from the picture, it looks like a ball with a groove in it. is that really what it is?

kasar · **Posted:** Sat Oct 11, 2008 4:40 pm

awesome.

great job man :wink:

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