My DC almost melted! In a state of panic

[Joe_news]

ok here is my story ... I had just finished playing PSO for like a hour, and my house isn't really cool I didn't turn the AC, as its having problems (god why now! ;D). I was getting tired of playing and turned it off and as I took out the disk I noticed that smell of electronics burning coming from the DC, but it was very light smell. Panicing I took my DC put in it a shirt and but some of those frozen lunch box blocks on it to cool it fast... im realy scared of playing it because of the tons and I mean TONS of stories of the DC having a major over heating problem and melting! So im not going to play it until I get a attachable fan to the back like they sell here online like this one

but since im broke this week I will have to wait a week or so, no DC for a week... im going to die! well atleast my DC isn't ;D


Well found a place to get the fan from, only 15

www.mod-chips.net/product_details.asp?ID=1686

and a place to get the outlet converter... as its a Asian outlet and im in the US, only 2
www.220appliances.com/products.asp?CategoryID=31

[game player S]

:PThat stinks.

Did the fan in your Dreamcast stop working?
Were any of the breather vents on your Dreamcast being blocked by anything, like carpet?

[Joe_news]

Well its on a flat desk, and the fan works fine. Im guessing my Dreamcast just can't take high temps. I played it yesterday at night for hours on PSO and it worked fine (thank god!) but im still going to get the fan. What I did last night was grad a window fan opened my window and my desk in front of my windows do it look it air that was like 60 degrees! And the DC didn't even get hot it ran cool all night! Maybe it was hotter in my room then I thought...