Asus T100 hardware tear down

KoeWaffle · Nov 6, 2013

Since I can't post anywhere else for some reason, here goes my hardware tear down for the Asus T100 (T100TA for experts

):

Visible chips on the T100TA mainboard Rev 2.0:

Amtel MXT1664TXES-C2U 1330B TW QLG9F (Touchscreen controls)
Broadcom BCM43241SFKFFBG TN1322 P24 294688 P3T (WiFi)
Phison PS2251-68-5 UO1329C D75J0.11AA (USB3.0 controller)
Realtek ALC5642 D2L87HI GD13F (Audio)
Winbond 250(Q)64FW1G 1329 6236 QP30003 (BIOS/UEFI)
Intel Q326A657 SR1M5 02962 '12 (the main cpu Z3740)
M F20 P02 CFQ0589 (No idea)
ITE IT8568VG 1331-AXO ZC0P1A (No idea)
SANDISK 9.15 XC4*00 SanDisk32G (The eMMC storage unit, 32GB version)

Camera module:
HannStar J 94V-0 E89382 1335 MV-4

Unnused connector J601 can be found on the camera module. Seems to be an USB connector.

Pictures of the hardware/inside: [NOT ALLOWED]

Got the hi-res versions stored locally, can't find a good place that doesn't rape the resolution / jpeg compression rate. Now, I was thinking the Winbond chip is most likely the PLL, isn't it? Should open the doors for some FSB tweaking. Another thing I couldn't find was the recovery USB storage... 7GB according to the hardware manager of Windows 8.1 . Unfortunately it uses 'current read-only state: true' which makes it impossible to use it as extra storage (try it with diskpart for yourselves).

Also, for other Dutch users, this is my main Dutch thread on Tweakers: [NOT ALLOWED].

If people can help out with identifying the chips / giving additional information it would be greatly appreciated

paperWastage · Nov 16, 2013

thanks for the teardown...

un-hidden links:

http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/1567250/2
http://imgur.com/a/u6Uni

wouldn't mind rehosting the higher-quality image links .. feel free to PM to me

KoeWaffle said:
Amtel MXT1664TXES-C2U 1330B TW QLG9F <- touchscreen controller
Broadcom BCM43241SFKFFBG TN1322 P24 294688 P3T (WiFi) <- mounted via SDIO, is linux-kernel supported
Phison PS2251-68-5 UO1329C D75J0.11AA (No idea) <- USB 3.0 to flash microcontroller... probably for eMMC
Realtek ALC5642 D2L87HI GD13F (Audio)
Winbond 250(Q)64FW1G 1329 6236 QP30003 (PLL?)
Intel Q326A657 SR1M5 02962 '12 (the main cpu Z3740)
M F20 P02 CFQ0589 (No idea)
ITE IT8568VG 1331-AXO ZC0P1A (No idea)
SANDISK 9.15 XC4*00 SanDisk32G (The eMMC storage unit, 32GB version)

Camera module:
HannStar J 94V-0 E89382 1335 MV-4 <- think it's a Sony IMX 175 senor. need to check. maybe a Aptina mt9m114 instead

Unnused connector J601 can be found on the camera module. Seems to be an USB connector.

cm3218x capella micro light sensor

unused connector would be nice. I have a small microSDXC USB reader, looking through your pics to see if there's any space to fit it there

would like to see the battery model number. C12N1320 ?

KoeWaffle · Nov 17, 2013

paperWastage said:
would like to see the battery model number. C12N1320 ?

C12N1320 Yes, or CL12NL320, but I am pretty sure they would use "L" instead of "l" then. As you probably have seen, it has two batteries connected to each other. How exactly I don't know, didn't want to remove the black cover sticker. :silly:

paperWastage · Nov 17, 2013

KoeWaffle said:
C12N1320 Yes, or CL12NL320, but I am pretty sure they would use "L" instead of "l" then. As you probably have seen, it has two batteries connected to each other. How exactly I don't know, didn't want to remove the black cover sticker. :silly:

thanks for the info

how did you take apart the tablet? guitar pick around the screen? do I see some free space on the bottom right corner?

Starfury · Nov 21, 2013

Is the RAM socketed or is it non-removable as my only issue is the 2Gb (1.89Gb usable) RAM available.

gallahad2000 · Nov 21, 2013

Starfury said:
Is the RAM socketed or is it non-removable as my only issue is the 2Gb (1.89Gb usable) RAM available.

Take a look at the pics, there's no sockets.

KoeWaffle · Nov 26, 2013

paperWastage said:
How did you take apart the tablet? guitar pick around the screen? do I see some free space on the bottom right corner?

I used some tools that were leftovers of my HTC Leo / HD2 days. Pretty much a guitar pick, but it might be a little thinner. I recommend starting on top, it goes the easiest loose there. The screen side is hooked to the backside, so best to pull the backplate a little outwards when removing, it will snap the hooks loose. For the dock, I will upload hires pictures soon of its contents, I did pull it apart before but my phone doesn't make great photos: imgur dot com slash a slash NQdTb http://imgur.com/a/NQdTb

Ricky0817 · Dec 3, 2013

SANDISK parts

Hi, I would like to know the appropriate part no. of Sandisk 32G. Could you pls see and let me know it ?
I may help you to identify of the specification in detail.

Thanks, Ricky:laugh:

MisterKrispy · Dec 9, 2013

Ricky0817 said:
Hi, I would like to know the appropriate part no. of Sandisk 32G. Could you pls see and let me know it ?
I may help you to identify of the specification in detail.

Thanks, Ricky:laugh:

I'd like to know this too if anyone knows. Is it soldered into the board or is it a microSD?

AceTK · Dec 16, 2013

Its a Sandisk SEM64G or 32G if you have the 32gb. Just reflashed mine from the stock bios to 220 and now everything is working great and no more bsod while using adobe flash or gaming in d3d. Thanks for those pictures they have saved me the hassle of looking to see if a ram upgrade to 4gb is possible and its not. No matter around october 2014 there should be something better to trade up to with hopefully 4gb and 128gb ssd minimum.

mangomanau · Dec 17, 2013

gallahad2000 said:
Take a look at the pics, there's no sockets.

Pretty sure the t100 uses the version of the processor which is limited to 2GB of RAM

dimarad · Dec 17, 2013

KoeWaffle said:
. Another thing I couldn't find was the recovery USB storage... 7GB according to the hardware manager of Windows 8.1 . Unfortunately it uses 'current read-only state: true' which makes it impossible to use it as extra storage

If people can help out with identifying the chips / giving additional information it would be greatly appreciated

Thank you very much for your information.I think that recovery USB storage is located here (marked on the attached picture). Can you please make the pictures of this area and connector J601 with higher resolution
Phison PS2251-68-5 is a controller usb 2.0 is used in flash drives. i think it is a controller for recovery USB storage

snoozii · Dec 29, 2013

KoeWaffle said:
I used some tools that were leftovers of my HTC Leo / HD2 days. Pretty much a guitar pick, but it might be a little thinner. I recommend starting on top, it goes the easiest loose there. The screen side is hooked to the backside, so best to pull the backplate a little outwards when removing, it will snap the hooks loose. For the dock, I will upload hires pictures soon of its contents, I did pull it apart before but my phone doesn't make great photos: imgur dot com slash a slash NQdTb http://imgur.com/a/NQdTb

It seems there is a non USA model of this T100TA that has a 500GB hard drive inside the dock. Would a mod be possible for the USA version?

KoeWaffle · Dec 30, 2013

snoozii said:
It seems there is a non USA model of this T100TA that has a 500GB hard drive inside the dock. Would a mod be possible for the USA version?

I think so. They could have soldered it to the board though... I haven't seen a teardown of a 500GB model, would love to see what is inside too! Maybe it can even help us Europeans to mod ours to have the same capabilities :good:.

Alex Atkin UK · Dec 30, 2013

Anyone know where the WiFi antenna is?

I'm really impressed with how well this tablet hold on to my WiFi signal across the road. I have a Yagi and a panel antenna beaming through tree branches, a balcony and a brick wall. Despite all this it doesn't seem to struggle to hold on any worse than my laptop did which had two antenna. You would think this low power chip would perform much much worse.

Even speed wise considering this doesn't have MIMO so the link speed is down from 150Mbit to 64Mbit, real-world speed is not as much of a reduction as I thought it might be when I realised it didn't do MIMO.
I have even seen this thing get 20Mbit across the road where my laptop used to peak around 30Mbit, although on average I get nearer 5Mbit now whereas the laptop did 10-20Mbit more frequently.

I did try an external mini USB adapter on the T100, didn't work any better even though THAT was linked at 150Mbit and the built-in only does 64MBit.

As for the HDD model, I read on another forum that its definitely in the keyboard and a different board to the normal one. Its interesting though, makes you wonder if it uses a hub or are there actually spare connectors on the dock?

What I personally would like is a dock adapter you can use while still in tablet mode that just adds the USB 3.0 port. If we are REALLY lucky maybe someone will trace the dock connector?

sarman_1998 · Jan 4, 2014

Any hint of a connector for the HD in the dock?

Thanks for the teardown info. As far as I've found these are the only ones on the web so far.

Its hard for me to see from the pictures. Did you see any hint of what/where the HD would connect in the dock?

Thanks,
Eric

Alex Atkin UK · Jan 5, 2014

sarman_1998 said:
Thanks for the teardown info. As far as I've found these are the only ones on the web so far.

Its hard for me to see from the pictures. Did you see any hint of what/where the HD would connect in the dock?

Thanks,
Eric

The HDD dock keyboard has a different PCB to the normal keyboard. Below is the normal one taken from http://www.transformerforums.com/forum/asus-transformer-book-t100/39507-inside-t100-base.html:

What I'm curious about is if the whole dock runs off a single USB 3.0 port or does the dock connector have several ports?
It would seem unlikely that its run off a hub as many USB 3.0 devices have issues if not run directly from a native port and I notice my USB 3.0 HDD works fine.

sarman_1998 · Jan 5, 2014

Alex Atkin UK said:
The HDD dock keyboard has a different PCB to the normal keyboard. Below is the normal one taken from http://www.transformerforums.com/forum/asus-transformer-book-t100/39507-inside-t100-base.html:
...
What I'm curious about is if the whole dock runs off a single USB 3.0 port or does the dock connector have several ports?
It would seem unlikely that its run off a hub as many USB 3.0 devices have issues if not run directly from a native port and I notice my USB 3.0 HDD works fine.

I took a look on mine and windows doesn’t show any USB 3 hub between my USB 3 thumb drive and the Root Hub, so I’d say there isn’t a hub there. I also did a little digging to make sure there wasn’t an embedded hub in there which might show up differently. I looked at the xHCI extended capability values and the host controller is advertising 6 USB 2 ports and 1 USB 3 port. That makes me even more curious what protocol will be used to connect to the HD in the dock. Hope it’s not USB 2.0.

If you go into windows device manager, go to the view menu and change it to "view by connection" you can then browse the device tree in a hierarchical way that will show you what is connected to what.
In Windows 8/8.1, if you find your external HD in device manager BEFORE you switch to “View by Connection” then when you switch the tree will automatically expand to show it. Under the xHCI controller there will always be a Root Hub listed. If you HD shows connected directly to that then there is no hub.

What chips are on the pcb in the dock?

Eric

Alex Atkin UK · Jan 5, 2014

sarman_1998 said:
What chips are on the pcb in the dock?
Eric

I will ask the guy on the Transformer forum who took the photos as I don't want to take mine apart.

googlefreak408 · Feb 3, 2014

Is the wifi card a mini pcie? Or a different interface I may want to upgrade mine.

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