My fan stopped spinning.

[Muthafukin Carl]

The fan in my Dreamcast is not spinning anymore. When I cut on the DC, all I get is a blank/black screen and it doesnt make that "zzwwhhzz" sound anymore and the LED stays on. At first my DC was reseting, so I opened the thing up, blew the dust off (it didnt have much dust in it), and put it back together. That didnt help at all, the fan still doesn't spin, the DC still shows that blank screen when I cut it on, and when I cut the DC on and off the LED comes on and off like normal. What's wrong with it?

[OneThirty8]

As this is a hardware problem, Topic Moved from General Help to Hardware Modification & Repair.

[TheWanderer]

The fan in my Dreamcast is not spinning anymore. When I cut on the DC, all I get is a blank/black screen and it doesnt make that "zzwwhhzz" sound anymore and the LED stays on. At first my DC was reseting, so I opened the thing up, blew the dust off (it didnt have much dust in it), and put it back together. That didnt help at all, the fan still doesn't spin, the DC still shows that blank screen when I cut it on, and when I cut the DC on and off the LED comes on and off like normal. What's wrong with it?

You could attempt to install a new fan...either from another DC or by bypassing it. DCmodder has a link to tut for bypassing it in his sig.

[dcmodder]

yep and trust me it's not hard to make that circuit at all. http://j11.foreverwicked.net/fantut.htm
just make sure that you have another fan instead of the one you're replacing with the circuit cause just because you're making it so you dont need a fan doesnt mean that you dont need it period. i'd suggest a nice 3 5 or 12v fan.

[C4RL]

Thanks a lot guys, I'll get those items 2morrow. I hope it works.