Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

Yes! , yes they are!
This morning I marked with a sharpie the usb connector on the BCR2000 board with an R and opened a BCF2000 and marked the usb connector F. (Aren't I clever).
That's when I saw it. A ground strap from the screw that holds the cpu board down closest to the usb port to the usb port itself. - No kiddin. The 3 BCR2000s that I have have no such grounding strap from the usb connector to chassis ground. I keep compromising them with what only I can presume is static. We like at 9800 feet up in the mountains where the humidity is around zero and you get shocked off everything we touch.
Anyway I thought that telling, as I have never had one of my 4 bcf2000s fail in the years I have had them.

I proceeded to swap the EPROM chips after marking them as well and put the BCF2000 board in the BCR2000 that was exhibiting "Unknown Device' in device manager. I readied device manager and powered up the BCR2000 with the BCF's cpu board in it. Not only did it post normally, but device manager found a BCR2000! - have the behringer driver installed. - Hurray! 

Now to see if the BCF2000 will work as if had been in MIDI mode (S-1) and mackie emulation as I like it.
I put the BCR2000 board in the BCF and hooked it up to my MidiSport 2x2. I powered it up and the display said McSo as it should in Mackie Emu mode. Also the faders all reset as expected too. So I started Sonar and added a Mackie control surface on the midi ports and ya know, it works! BC mode works too.
So aside from some esoteric config that may be troublesome, this swapperoo is a success!
I am going to add the ground strap to my bcr2000s while they're open.
:Ron


      From: "rpcfender@... [bc2000]" <bc2000@yahoogroups.com>
 To: bc2000@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 5:13 PM
 Subject: [bc2000] Re: Are the BCR2000 and BCF2000 CPU boards interchageable?
   
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