I'm afraid that it is quite more complicated than that. Which is a horrible shame. My repair guy quoted me well over $1,000 USD for the repair. I found that it was cheaper just to buy another BeoMaster 5 that had never been used.

beojeff wrote:

I'm afraid that it is quite more complicated than that. Which is a horrible shame. My repair guy quoted me well over $1,000 USD for the repair. I found that it was cheaper just to buy another BeoMaster 5 that had never been used.

My repair guy told me that the prices went up quite a lot recently due to scarcity from B&O. It's frustrating that B&O sometimes uses parts (such as a mother board and hard drive) that could be more generic to help the longevity of its products. I literally chucked my old BeoMaster 5 in the bin since it was not economical to have it repaired. I hate that sense of waste.

I just did a search on eBay and found a complete BeoSound 5 with 500GB BeoMaster 5 for $1,061.25 and a BeoSound 5 with 1TB BeoMaster 5 for $1,195.68. As i was saying, it's a shameful waste that it's actually cheaper to just replace the entire BS5 system than to have it repaired.

I also just found a 500 MB Beomaster 5 in the U.S. for $500.

Thanks, but I’m based in the uk.

I see in other parts of the forum, that the motherboard was replaced and the rom chip changed, but I wondered whether there was anyone who had done the repair who could comment. 

Hi Frog, i just managed to repair mine.

I actually wonder what replacement board you ordered and where: on my initial search for this board i only found them offered on a Brazillian webshop and not on the known Chinese site(s), we're talking about Via Epia 20000 (the 10000, 15000 and successors are not difficult to find).

What you can do is see if the caps have a bulged top, if so, see if you can find a company or person with the right tools (!!!) to work on these multilayer boards, as replacing is not as easy as in 25 yrs+ electronics.

But then you may be good again for a handfull of pounds :)

BTW: i also heard of crazy prices (1000 euro) but that depends on which dealer: B&O charges 550,- or so for a board but if they ship the unit to another repair place that miraculously seems to double....

If the Main Board part number you're looking for is 8005051, I have not one but two boxed and unused ones for sale!

One of my ex-staff wrongly ordered them last year - and I couldn't send them back for a refund. I did indeed pay around £500 each for them, from memory. :O(

I'd let them go for £275 each, otherwise I'm happy to hang onto them.

Lee

I’ll happily take one if it replaces the existing one - but isn’t there a problem with the serial numbers of the Rom and the hard disk need to be synched using a usb tool?