Beosound/Master5 Upgrade OS from XP to vista or beyond...

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Merlin712 (archived2)
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Posted December 19, 2018 at 21:55 GMT
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Hi guys, new to the site as I recently bought a Beosound5 which I am delighted with, it's a 1TB version, I am having major problems with the IE on it not resolving the DNS so I can't get to any web addresses, however within a command prompt it resolves URL addresses fine when I ping them. Subsequently it also does not recogonise CDs when they are inserted into the attached CD ripper. Anyway, I thought that I would explore upgrading the XP OS to a newer version if possible as a first step? Has anybody done it? Thanks

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w5bno123 (archived2)
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Posted December 19, 2018 at 23:00 GMT
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Merlin712 wrote:

Hi guys, new to the site as I recently bought a Beosound5 which I am delighted with, it's a 1TB version, I am having major problems with the IE on it not resolving the DNS so I can't get to any web addresses, however within a command prompt it resolves URL addresses fine when I ping them. Subsequently it also does not recogonise CDs when they are inserted into the attached CD ripper. Anyway, I thought that I would explore upgrading the XP OS to a newer version if possible as a first step? Has anybody done it? Thanks

The CD ripping service is no longer supported, you can only use the device as a CD player.
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Stan
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Posted December 20, 2018 at 15:34 GMT
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I would be surprised if upgrading the OS is possible.  There are custom drivers and also some weird things B&O has done to lock down the system - that is, to replace the disk, you either must have a bit-for-bit copy made before the disk failed, or use a proprietary toolkit to rebuild the disk.  It's not just a standard computer running a standard OS.

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carolpa
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Posted December 20, 2018 at 18:23 GMT
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Stan wrote:
I would be surprised if upgrading the OS is possible.  There are custom drivers and also some weird things B&O has done to lock down the system - that is, to replace the disk, you either must have a bit-for-bit copy made before the disk failed, or use a proprietary toolkit to rebuild the disk.  It's not just a standard computer running a standard OS.
Two years ago I installed a Windows 7 Embedded version on a Beomedia 1. It actually did run, but still had some issues. Unfortunally I made a mistake and lost all partitions during reinstalling W7 Embedded to optimize the BM1...……... so there ended the project.  

 

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StUrrock (archived2)
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Posted December 20, 2018 at 23:01 GMT
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w5bno123 wrote:
Merlin712 wrote:

 

Hi guys, new to the site as I recently bought a Beosound5 which I am delighted with, it's a 1TB version, I am having major problems with the IE on it not resolving the DNS so I can't get to any web addresses, however within a command prompt it resolves URL addresses fine when I ping them. Subsequently it also does not recogonise CDs when they are inserted into the attached CD ripper. Anyway, I thought that I would explore upgrading the XP OS to a newer version if possible as a first step? Has anybody done it? Thanks

 

 

The CD ripping service is no longer supported, you can only use the device as a CD player.

B&O should be ashamed of themselves, the thing was advertised as a CD Ripper.

Totally disgraceful and short sighted.

Beosound 5 Head unit is beautiful, the BeoMaster 5 is an ugly dog of a thing both in looks and functionality.

 

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