Now it's time to remove the LCD screen. This may be an optional step depending upon how easy the motherboard slides out if you leave the LCD attatched, but I wanted to have clear sailing and opted to remove the LCD entirely. Either way, make sure to detatch all the LCD cables that connect to the motherboard (there should be 3 total - a power cable, the video cable, and the speaker cable). The video cable has two screws that must be removed first.. after which you can pull up on the PCB that fits into the video port. Also be sure to remove the cable that goes to the LEDs. The LCD then just has two screws on each side that need to be taken out, after which should allow easy removal of the screen.

You can also pop off the LED cover (the dark red plastic piece) and the thin front aluminum cover if you haven't already. This should expose the entire motherboard (this can be set aside for now).

Now that all components and cables have been removed that were in the way, the motherboard can be extracted. If you don't plan on removing the DOC or adding memory, then you should be able to set it aside until you're ready to put everything back together.

This is the Webplayer's motherboard.. nice and compact. The 200mhz Geode processor is underneath the large black heatsink on the top of the board. The 44-pin IDE connection (to the right of the heatsink in the left-hand picture) is what we're concerned about since it will enable us to replace the 48mb DOC (Disk On Chip) that is the default "drive" in the Webplayer with an actual hard drive. Also of note is the mini-PCI slot toward the bottom that could be of some use later on if mini-PCI devices drop more in price.

If you take a look at the picture of the bottom of the motherboard, you'll see a standard PC100 64mb SO-DIMM, commonly used in laptops. There really isn't a whole lot to look at on the bottom of the board, but the DOC is also located there.