Beomedia INside and Out

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seanklemis (archived)
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Posted July 6, 2008 at 05:06 GMT
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Hello All

This post is mainly for information

i opened my beomedia this morning as i wanted to clean it out as it has been running for a few years, i noticed that recently i had been taking more and more short video's with my digital camera and they dont seem to play properly and the videos stop and start quite alot

i have opened it up this morning and can tell you all it has a 1.2 Ghz processor and a terrible 256Mb PC2700 of ram. The masterlink socket is a PCI card attached to the motherboard.

I gave it a clean out and changed some of the performance settings of the Platform is runs on (XP)

i have also upgraded the ram to 512Mb DDR 400Mhz PC3200 and we will see over the next few days if it makes any difference to playing of videos'

i also noticed over the past few years that now pictures become better quality the beomedia takes longer and longer to think about opening them so lets see if this makes any improvment

i just hope my Ram is not to advanced for this motherboard as it looks very simple.

I have taken a picture for any of you who may wish to see the guts of this machine.

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ChrDH (archived)
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Posted July 6, 2008 at 07:23 GMT
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Thanks for the picture, always fun to have a look behind the curtains so to speak.

br Chr.

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seanklemis (archived)
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Posted July 6, 2008 at 08:25 GMT
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Hello No problem

i have been runnign the beomedia with 512Mb ram as previously posted and it seems a little better still a bit slow on video and some high quality picks but better i think i may try and order 1GB ram for it to see if it helps further

they do get dusty in there some some of you with it running for years un check may wish to give it a hoover out but be aware practice anti-static procedures if you can 

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stotty1111
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Posted July 6, 2008 at 09:05 GMT
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will it not take a higher speed cpu - i don't know a great deal about them

tony s

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seanklemis (archived)
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Posted July 6, 2008 at 09:10 GMT
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i dont know i did not look into it that much as the new beocenter 5 is on its way. It seem sa little better i did not really see where the processor was prob under the heat sync.

just being cautious as a new one is not cheap in an IT engineer but bang & olufsen woudl not care what i do and say i broke it and costly to fix.

need to clone the hard disk for backup purposes

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beojeff
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Posted July 6, 2008 at 09:24 GMT
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This makes one wonder if with the masterlink card ordered as a spare part and the software one might be able to assemble a far superior Beomedia at a fraction of the B&O price.
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mr_anders_son
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Posted July 6, 2008 at 09:46 GMT
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seanklemis (archived)
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Posted July 6, 2008 at 10:01 GMT
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thats a shame oh well maybe just have to wait unil the new system is out and hope they do not make it with a low spec.

 

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drevil2k2 (archived)
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Posted July 6, 2008 at 12:02 GMT
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It also appears that you can remove the HD and have it cloned. Not being technically inclined, too bad you can't degrag the hard drive as that might reduce the seek time and improve performance.
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kimhav (archived)
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Posted January 29, 2009 at 21:34 GMT
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The board used in Beomedia is VIA EPIA M II and I think it's still available. Nice feature with this board is that you can boot from CF memory card as well; this would be one way of speeding up the system boot and then use the hard drive as media storage only. I'm using the exactly same board in my dedicated media server and discovered later that B&O used the same board as well.

Manual and drivers for the board can be downloaded from link home page.

VIA

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