BeoMedia 1 (Beovision 9)

[Noel Haygarth]

Does anyone know how I can get hold of the Beomedia 1 Service manual. The Beomedia can with my Beovision 9 and stopped working years ago. I removed it recently and the caps in the 20pin ATX power supply were blown. I have replaced them, but I need to find out where the two cables that go from the PCI Masterlink card plug into the to the mainbaord.  Thanks

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[Madskp]

Try to take a look in this old thread that has some pictures of the inside of the Beomedia 1 https://archivedforum2.beoworld.org/forums/t/16279.aspx

Hopefully that can help you locate it. If that is not enough to locate the connection point I have a Beomedia 1 that I can open up when I am home again

Location: Denmark

[Noel Haygarth]

That is brilliant. Thank you. The photos unfortunately do not show the power supply removed which is above where the cables go. If you can open up your Beomedia 1 when you get the chance and have a look, I would be extremely grateful. I am annoyed I was not more careful when removing the power supply and the mainland manual does not give me any hints, unfortunately.

[Madskp]

I have no opened up my Beomedia 1. The engieneers that desinged this did not have servicability as the main priority for sure. Man this thing is cramped, and I can,t belive the amount of hot glue used.

I have not yet been able to take the power supply of the ATX conencter. Maybe you have a hint for that?

But I have taken these pictures for now that might helt you placing the wires

Location: Denmark

[Noel Haygarth]

You’re right, the B&O engineers did not think to make it easy on us, but your pictures are exactly what I need, so thank you. To get the power supply off you need a very long but narrow flat headed screwdriver to gently push the clip that hold in outwards. You can then gently rock and pull the powersupply off.

[Madskp]

Noel Haygarth wrote:

but your pictures are exactly what I need, so thank you

Great to hear that they are usefull, and hopefully that will get it going again

 

Noel Haygarth wrote:

To get the power supply off you need a very long but narrow flat headed screwdriver to gently push the clip that hold in outwards. You can then gently rock and pull the powersupply off.

Thanks. I will try to see if I can do that without to much damage. I wonder if another ITX power supply with a cable can be used instead. That would make future service much easier

Location: Denmark

[Noel Haygarth]

Thanks again. I now have a repaired and working Beomedia. I took a ghost image of the installation and also a copy to another hard disk for back-up, upgraded the RAM to 1GB and put a larger 500gb SATA hard drive inside the unit, using an IDE to SATA converter. If you get Microsoft DART V5 you can create a bootable USB and use Ghost 11.5 to make a copy of the installation. What a week it has been but nice to have it working. If yours is the same main board as mine, look at this manual for power supply options: https://theretroweb.com/motherboard/manual/um-epia-mii-162-63cd39724e43c965057015.pdf

Ironically there is no reason the whole system could not be ported to a different PC.

 

[Madskp]

Noel Haygarth wrote:

Thanks again. I now have a repaired and working Beomedia.

Great to hear 🙂

Noel Haygarth wrote:

I took a ghost image of the installation and also a copy to another hard disk for back-up, upgraded the RAM to 1GB and put a larger 500gb SATA hard drive inside the unit, using an IDE to SATA converter. If you get Microsoft DART V5 you can create a bootable USB and use Ghost 11.5 to make a copy of the installation.

Thanks for the input. I might look into putting an SSD in to it instead. I think there is some inspiration in some Beosound 5 threads about preparing the SSD for correct allignment.

Noel Haygarth wrote:

If yours is the same main board as mine, look at this manual for power supply options: https://theretroweb.com/motherboard/manual/um-epia-mii-162-63cd39724e43c965057015.pdf

Nice. I also came up with another idea to use an ATX extender cable and just move the existing power supply to another location in the case (it will need some sort of mounting bracket) as there is lots of space in the case

Noel Haygarth wrote:

Ironically there is no reason the whole system could not be ported to a different PC.

I had the same thought. The connections you were i doubt of is digital sound, so a motherboard with that will be needed. Also there might be some drivers issues, but I wonder if it is more or less like a PCI version of the Beoport which has prooven to work under windows 10, and therefor should be possible to use in anothjer system. But that is a test for another time

Location: Denmark

[Guy]

Madskp wrote:

I had the same thought. The connections you were i doubt of is digital sound, so a motherboard with that will be needed. Also there might be some drivers issues, but I wonder if it is more or less like a PCI version of the Beoport which has prooven to work under windows 10, and therefor should be possible to use in anothjer system. But that is a test for another time

Beoport also works with Win11 – trialled and discussed here:  https://forum.beoworld.org/forums/topic/beolink-pc2-beoport-beoplayer/

I have since installed Beoport and tested with my new Win11 desktop and all the functionality is there, but I didn’t connect additional ML devices.  It still has the annoying bug of muting the audio when you change radio stations – I’d be interested to hear whether your Beomedia(s) do the same.

Location: Warwickshire, UK

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[Noel Haygarth]

The idea of the ATX extender is a great idea, as is the SSD. Be good to know if the SSD would work. If I see a cheap Beomedia 1, I will but it to do some tests on. Like yourself, I can see no reason why it will not work on Windows 10 or 11, as long as the driver works. I will keep an eye out for a cheap unit.

Thanks for all your help.

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