Belkin Express Dock Teardown

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Belkin Express Dock Teardown

Belkin Express Dock Teardown This teardown will show the internal construction of the Belkin Thunderbolt Express which offers Thunderbolt pass-through, ethernet, FireWire800, audio and usb3 ports. On the back of the board are Parade chips which support display port and HDMI/DVI !

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Belkin Express Dock Teardown

INTRODUCTION The only tools needed are a philips screwdriver and a narrow putty knife.

TOOLS: Phillips #00 Screwdriver (1) Putty knife (1)

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Step 1 — Belkin Express Dock Teardown 

View of the connectors

Step 2



Use a putty knife to remove the four rubber feet. Once removed, there are 4 phillips screws to be removed.

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Step 3 

The next step is to use the putty knife to pry off one of the two plastic endcaps, they snap out and the circuit board slides out.



Use the phillips screwdriver to remove 5 more screws to remove the plastic mounting frame.

Step 4

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Step 5



Front and back of the board.



From left to right on the front of the board the major chips are: LSI FW643E-02 (FIreWire800); Broadcom BCM57762 (gige); Intel L150I56 (Thunderbolt controller), NXP LPC1114F (two), Fresco FL1100 (USB3); C-Media CM119A (Audio)



From left to right on the back of the board the major chips are: Parade PS161HDM; Parade PS8301 (two); NXP ZSD310 (two); Parade PS8321. The chips seem to support HDMI/DVI conversion and Display Port!

Step 6



close-ups of the major chips

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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order. This document was last generated on 2017-06-24 02:39:14 PM.

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