riverstyx wrote:

I checked the price of the motherboard a few years ago (out of curiosity) and if I recall correctly it was in the region of 400 to 500 GBP.

As Beobuddy mentioned, there are additional sockets on the stock Epia EX board although you should be able to desolder these (or perhaps even snip their legs off) to make the board fit.

As long as the bios chip on the original board is still working you may be able to simply swap it out to the new motherboard and avoid the need for the service tool.

I did remove the bios chip from my BM5 a while ago to take a backup copy of it (using an EPROM programmer) and it is my intention at some stage to have a play with the linux flash tools to see if I could flash a stock EX motherboard accordingly without resorting to removal of the chip, but it's one of those tasks on my todo list that is unlikely to happen until a motherboard failure in my BM5 forces it higher up the list!

Martin.

 

 

BeoBuddy wrote:

The Epia EX board will not fit easily into the casing of the BM5. The original EX has sockets which are not present in the BM5. Like digital audio out.

It will partly work. You will have to flash the B&O Bios in the EX, But you need the B&O servicetool to copy the serialnumber in the BIOS. Otherwise you will not get any updates. The Epia flashtool isn't capable to flash the serialnumber.

The reason I think many B&O boards fail, is that they run the processor on 2.0Ghz, instead of the normal 1,5Ghz. That's causing more heat, and there is't an active cooler on it.

Here's the linkto the BS5Service Tool.

Since this is not a normal file sharing, I do not know how long the link itself will be active, but content should be there.

 

https://yadi.sk/d/VW3xnEWSWMiikw

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https://yadi.sk/d/VW3xnEWSWMiikw

Does anyone have some info on these github projects?

neomaster :

https://github.com/toresbe/neomaster

beoported :

https://github.com/toresbe/beoported

libpc2 :

https://github.com/toresbe/libpc2

Nope. But interesting.

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managed to get gparted running on BM5 to repartion new 1TB SSD Crucial MS500 1TB

But the SSD is not showing up, I will have to dig a little deeper into BS/b5

(BTW Crucial MS500 1TB cloned with the original 0.5 TB B&O HDD works fine)

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Just for information, I have copied some wav files to the BM5 SSD, these are playing well but TAGs and Covers are not recognized. I could not manage to show them , I decided to convert them to wma now the Tags are fine.

A very interesting Prog for converting files and ripping CDs is:

fre:ac from link

it's a free software and exists for Windows, XOS, Linux, it handles a lot formats including wma-lossless , flac , mp3 , ...

it does also tagging , important as our BM5 is no longer connected to CDDB

My favorite Tagging prog is link

greetings

 

gerard

 

gerard wrote:

... I have copied some wav files to the BM5 SSD, these are playing well but TAGs and Covers are not recognized. I could not manage to show them , I decided to convert them to wma now the Tags are fine.

 

Well, you just found out that the WAV File is a format that doesn't support Tags nor covers nor anything else 😕

MP3, WMA and FLAC support the additional info in the files.

The WAV format is just rawe PCM data of the audio plus information about the sampling specs ( how many channels at what xxKb/s rate are inside ).

 

But thank you for the converter info, will try it soon.

 

Good news, I managed to have gparted see the installed SSD.

It should not be a problem to resize a cloned 0,5TB SSD to the overall 1TB, by using only the BM5/BS5 combo without an other PC/MAC

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Long time no contribution, so back with my experiences upgrading Beosound 5 / Beomaster 5 to SSD.
Basic idea was to have a Beosound WITH some sort of a midsize screen for visual feedback of chosen radio station.
Needed to have the radio running by the press of the RADIO button on the Beo 4 (WAF).

Beosound 5 was acceptable for looks as well, so I had the luck to get one used with 500 GB and a CD ripper as well (to use it as a player only).
(I DO NOT like the looks of the Beosound Moment)

Read through a lot lot of threads here on Beoworld and ended up with the following procedures:

Hardware:
1. Harddisk (SSD) with Marvel 88SS1074 Chipsset: Western Digital WDS100T2B0A WD Blue 1TB 3D NAND Internal SSD 2.5" SATA (110 €)
2. HDD cage Inateck for 2,5" HDD/SSD, 2,5" to 3,5" internal for 1 SSD/HDD, including brackets, screws and SATA 3 cable (10 €)
3. Hardware Cloner: Inateck Aluminium USB 3.0 SATA dual-Bay USB 3.0 HDD Dockingstation with offline Clone function (FD2102) (40 €)

Cloning done with the press of a button (from bay A to bay B).

Afterwards connect the SSD in Inateck Dockingstation via USB to PC
Windows Mini Tool Partition Wizard Free, to expand the DATA Partition (since new SSD is 1 TB)
Before this you need to move the non allocated space next to the DATA partition..
BTW: gparted on USB Boot Stick did not work.

After putting the SSD in Beomaster 5 started Recovery

First try: please use chkdsk, had to press OK several times.
Second try: Recovery runs through smoothly.

Started the update, after some minutes on the newest version (in November 2019: http://swupdate.bang-olufsen.com.gccdn.net/ftp/BeoMaster5/Mk1/Prod/SWService/BeoMaster5_704011945.exe)

Get the network integration done to copy my music files on DATA.
Important: active SMB1 in Windows 10 (several guides on the Internet how to do this).
Map the SSD DATA partition of the Beomaster 5 \\IP-OF-BM-05\BM-SHARE$\ to B: or any other letter
Username BM-USER and Password (set-up in the Beosound 5 menu)
Copy your collection "drag and drop."

Done!

Now I got a fast running radio with a nice little screen - and the chance to play some of my music collection again (moved on to Deezer/Sonos years ago). To ingegrate with my NL Setup I had to get a ML/NL converter as well. So a bit of an overkill for internet radio but I liked the challenge.
I might integrate a Beogram using a Behringer USB device in the future.

Any questions, please ask.

Ralf

 

PS: I have the service tool as well but wanted to be able to do without (for me the safer way as well regarding cloning (serial numbers?)).

Hi Ralf

Thanks for sharing. My system is getting close to 10 years old now and I am still very satisfied with it.

We mostly listen to Radio, but I do also play some Spotify using a.aux where a Chromecast Audio is connected to a Behringer.

And I do also sometimes listen to my music collection but it has become seldom now. I do have some music that is not available on streaming.

I hope it will continue to function for several years.

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