What's in my Motion C5/F5? (cool pics)

[John Hill]

Well, I know that the Motion C5/F5 is a sealed unit, but here at TabletPCBuzz we like to disregard the rules and see what makes stuff work. This is especially important for those of us that keep tablets for a while and need to upgrade them long after their supposed useful life.

One of my tech guys was curious and decided to remove all the screws and open up a demo F5 that was sitting on his desk. First, let me tell you that taking it apart is easy. Putting everything back together? There are a lot of internal connectors and wires and it isn't as easy as some other tablet PCs. Beware!

Anyway, here are the pics:

[PaulB]

Cool pictures! Does that kickstand for the support of the upper plate come standard? ;)

[Agent 9]

A little bit of thread necro,

I recently got one of these, I got it 'open box' for under $500 but it was literally brand new untouched except the box was opened, and its the F5 update with the dual core U7500 processor and the AFFS+ screen; I think its a great device with a beautiful screen... well being told the F5 has a '2GB limit' and reading the chipset 'supports 4GB' I just couldn't resist so I did close to a full tear down, pictures below :D

To sum it up: it came with Vista x86 and 2GB ram; I opened it, tried a 4GB stick in the main slot, it didn't work, bought a 2GB stick, it worked an showed 3GB properly; I installed Win 7 x64 by mistake and had it all setup by the time I realized, thought what the heck and went on to fully disassemble the machine to find the elusive second ram slot and found it! Bought then added a second 2GB stick, sadly to find the '4GB limit' of the Intel 945 chipset doesn't really mean 4GB but in the area of 3.0-3.7GB; so only 3318MB of the 4096MB ram is recognized and usable by 64-bit Windows or even Linux; good news is I have another 2GB stick to use eventually and in the time being a tiny bit more ram to use with a 64-bit OS (which is able to allocate more memory space to 32 and 64-bit programs than 32-bit OS can)

The only thing I haven't yet gotten working is the fingerprint reader.


Pictures :)

Note there are two connectors for the HDD/ SSD, I suspect that one is used for HDD's and one for the SSD's, so if anyone is contemplating a swap then keep that in mind!






more here, with simple instructions http://www.flickr.com/photos/51608380@N05/sets/72157628625955647/
If someone wants more detailed instructions than what's in the photo's descriptions (on Flickr), or the full resolution pictures, then feel free to ask/ PM/ email me


EDIT: also, I'm curious if anyone knows this, is the Easy Connect (USB & Ethernet only) dock thing supposed to be a full powered USB 2.0 slot (so for example it could power a external HDD, and use without problem), because the one I got from a Amazon reseller seems to not...

[shuflie]

Thanks for bringing this one back to life, had tried taking mine apart before but for some reason could never manage to get the back off and didn't know if I was missing out a few screws. Your Flickr pics pointed me to the one I hadn't found. Now have 2Gig instead of 1Gig, although I did manage to break the connector for the speaker, could almost swear they have the plug glued in. Much rather have a more responsive tablet and use Bluetooth headphones anyhow. Having fun playing with windows 8 on it now.

[fozy_50]

anyone know the pinouts for the dock pins.


thanks ian