My Dreamcast started acting up today

[vapester]

..maybe it's because I left it running a couple times the past few days. I don't know. But the screen goes black when loading variable parts of a game and i'm pretty sure the disc stops spinning. Is this an early sign of my disc not spinning entirely? I tried to wipe the laser with a kleenex and cd cleaner but it didn't seem to work as it did it again. Anyone else have this problem before? I looked around and found this info (LINK) should I go straight into that, or does it sound like my laser just needs cleaning? I've never had any problems with a Dreamcast before so if anyone has experience with these kinda problems some advice would be appreciated. I guess i'll try and clean the laser one more time. Here's the link I found on fixing the Dreamcast.

http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index.ph ... alibration

if anyone tries this, the little knob is very delicate and is easily collapsable, they made it sound like you can just grab it w/ pliers. Be very, very gentle if you try this. This fix didn't seem to work for me.

[vapester]

..well, i'll try cleaning the laser, spraying the fan with dust off......and if that fails i found this info that should do the trick.

http://www94.pair.com/jsoper/dc_fix.html

this seems to have worked, so far.......