[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.

[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.

 

[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.

[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.

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