Just to add,

I dont understand a previous thread comments. See link below.

/forum/imported-unmapped/replace-main-board-on-bm5

lano replied back in that previous that he............

"I had to pull of the coaxial S/PDIF connector by cutting of the leads/legs (the board will not fit else).

Next I gently pull up the optical S/PDIF connector and cut of the three pins in the back as high up as possible (a connector from the ML bord should be filter on these three pins)."

Does that mean he soldered the optical s/pdif connector on the new motherboard to the old s/pdif connector so that the cable could be used to connect the B&O daughter board?

After some extra careful reading further in the forum post I referenced to previously. It seems you need to connect the B&O daughter board to the new motherboard with the previous cable. These means you need to cut open the optical s/pdif so that it exposes 3 pins. Its these pins "lano" connected the old cable to. I'll give this a go in the next few days and let you know how I get on.

See previous post comment from "lano"

Hi,

 

do you mean you need to solder a special connector for the masterlink socket to the 3 pins? In this case did you buy the connector or did you take it from the old board?

 

 

Thanks

 

The only thing I did was pulled the black case of the optical s/pdif of (it takes some force). Then there is some transparent plastic with metal inside that I cut away so I had three pins left (cut as high as possible). On these pins the connector from the ML board fitted.

On the original board there is only three pins (no special connector, just three straight pins). I guess you could move these to the new board if you know how to solder, but that was not needed for me.

Hi all, I've made some progress but i've also hit a snag. I've cut of the black optic s/pdif connector on the new motherboard and exposed the 3 pins. i think connected the old cable onto these 3 pins (even though the cable has 2 wires?) and connected everything esle up. When I play music I get only sound on the right hand side channel. I've also just recently soldered the cable to the 2 outer wires and I still only get sound on the right hand side. Tomorrow I'll try a spare cable I have lying around and see if that helps. But if any out there has some other ideas I would like to hear from you.

Success! I replaced the 2 wired s/pdif cable with another one and now I have left and right channels, I guess its damaged? either way my beosound 5 is back and running again. Thanks to the ones that posted before me. Maybe this helps others that come after me?

bigbruggsy wrote:

Success! ... Maybe this helps others that come after me?