Hi MircoHH,

I have tried the EVO and the Pro. The Pro unfortunately has had the same booting Problems as the EVO. Even if the Pro Drive is a little better, it is far away from being reliable.

I could only manage to clone HDDs. They booted and behaved normal. I also cloned a 2GB HDD with an embedded Flash. It booted, but behaved strange. Occasionally reboots, no Covers, etc.

As I own one of the first BS5s, I think, I have one of the first Mainboards, which I would think are the cause of the booting Problem. If there are newer drivers around, they could fix it.

If someone could help with this that would be highly appreciated.

NB: Does the HH in MircoHH point to Hamburg (Germany)?

Hi DocLeisure, 

yes, HH point to Hamburg, Germany :-)  I am living in Hamburg. 

I have one of the first Beosound 5, too. Tomorrow my SSD disk will arrive and I'll try it. Do you know, if B&O changed the motherboard of the Beosound 5?

Geerings,

Mirco 

Hi MircoHH,

as far as I know there are at least two Versions out there, because of some weeknesses of the first version: (/forum/general-discussion-and-questions/beomaster-5000-presets-wont-keep-with-new-battery-and-other-misbehaviour #16)

regards

Stephan

Hi Stephan, 

thankyou for your answer. I wrote a mail to Bang & Olufsen and I was told, that the latest version of the OS is 7.01. The update can be done with a service tool.

Can anybody get this service tool? 

greetings

Mirco

Hi Stephan, 

thankyou for your answer. I wrote a mail to Bang & Olufsen and I was told, that the latest version of the OS is 7.01. The update can be done with a service tool.

Can anybody get this service tool? 

greetings

Mirco

Hi Mirco,

I don´t think, updating the OS will solve your problem. My system version is:

Application: 7.03.01.1542

main firnware: 1.38a

boot firmware: 0.04a

ml firmware: 2.36

mb bios: 1.15

OS Image 6.05

OS Update 7.03

And as you know, I have the same issues you encountered. The last hope I have, is getting newer drivers for the SATA-Controller on the BeoMaster5 mainboard.

If the service tool would update theses drivers, you are on the right track, but setting the OS Version to 7.01 (or later) does not do the trick…

Best regards

Stephan

Hi Stephan, 

it worked. I just installed the SSD And my BS5 is like a new one, really fast :-)

think, the only problem was the samsung evo. 

Great news Mirco ! 🤒

What is the brand and model of your SSD ?

Can you really feel this change ? Faster than with the HDD ?

Hi all,

I have to refine my post regarding the HDD upgrade.

I have the same problems with the Samsung Evo 840 like you describe...

Everything works fine once the BS5 runs but if it reboots itself ( although I have set the Automatic upgrade option to off ) the system hangs in the startup screen from time to time.

If I manually reboot / hard reset the Beomaster 5 it boots normally without a problem...

This is really strange, normally something works flawless or not at all but this behaviour confuses me... I have checked everything I know, BIOS is okay, HDD serials are the same as original and so on... must be something with the SSD itself ( controller / firmware etc. )

Regarding my previous post, I can NOT recommend the 840 Evo Series at the moment for the Beomaster 5 HDD upgrade!

Hope you have better results with other SSD brands and post them here as I def. not want to go back to a spinning HDD

Best regards

Stephan

Hi,

I have the same issues with a "Samsung 840 Pro Series" SDD (link). With the EVO SSD I only got two boots out of ten tries. Hard reset or reboot made no difference.

If it boots up, it is fantasticly fast and wonderfull. But unfortunately the whole System seems not to be reliable anymore.

Best regards

Stephan