There is no board under the display... the board and the display are seperated around 1cm.

Therefore it must be a foilcable like it was before.

The only solution for a silicon connector would be an extended Mainboard. An then there is the problem, that the silicon connector will make pressure on the display pushing it out of the metal frame... Login to view image

Interesting idea! The Beolink 7000 has a similar conductive strip between the board and the transparent display. I hope one day someone cracks this problem!

It seems that someone has cracket the problem. In the facebook group Bang & Olufsen there is a thread where a solution is shown

From RS Baarstrøm on Facebook:

"The method is simple. You have to find a new LCD cable with a pitch of 0,55mm.
Then you align the cable with the screen and pcb and attach it with a heat press.
It is nearly impossible to do by eye, I had to build a simple fixture for alignment and use a microscope."

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Hi everyone,

I am happy to report back that I was contacted by a nice fellow on Beoworld. He had seen that I had been looking for a solution for fixing the Beolink 5000 for a while, to no avail.

He wrote to me that all I had to do was rip off the old LCD cable and clean the print and screen for the glue that was used and then either send it to him or come to his place. I have three of these wonderful remotes but only one of them was working, and with a lot of pixels missing. So, obviously I was very interested. I was also a bit reluctant to remove the cable from the one remote that actually worked but I still did it.

So, I tore off the LCD cables and cleaned the screens and prints, and then I drove to his place just outside of Copenhagen where we had a great talk about Bang & Olufsen, and how we got bitten by the bug. I handed him the screens and prints, and he said that they would probably be ready within a week or so. I also received quite a few spares that I needed to make my Beolink 5000s look almost like new. The price was also very, very acceptable. Thank you!

Sure enough, after a week, he called me and said that the LCD cables had been fixed by a guy in Struer, Denmark.

I have now assembled the first of the Beolink 5000s and I wanted to share the result with you. The screens are working 100%, and I just love the result.

The screen and print are fragile so they were packaged very securely.

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Checking the software version:

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Setting up the remote for one way or two way communication:

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Storing:

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Using Link CD

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Testing the back display:

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System shut off:

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So there you have it. After all these years, a guy from Beoworld has the opportunity to fix the faulty LCD cable and replace it with a new one.

I am very happy right now :)

/Filip

I'm so glad on your behalf Fillip, that every thing turned out great with your Beolink 5000.

It was me who got in contact with Filip, as he has for a long time searched for a solution to replace the old display ribon and I actually have contact to a guy who can do the job.

The process is to strip down and clean the display and PCB for old glue.

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Then send all the pieces the guy and this is what you get returned.

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Then is just to reassemble the Beolink 5000 after a recap of the IR PCB and the enchanting result is a fully functional Beolink 5000.

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/steffen

Hello,

I´m also interested to get my Beolink 5000 working again. How to proceed?

Thanks

Christian

Hi Christian,

For a start you could send me an PM :-)

/steffen

Hi Steffen,

thanks for your answer. Since private message is not possible anymore as bronze member, maybe you can send me an email at mail@adyan.de.

Christian