ECS LIVA Mini Box QC710 technical details
Published · Last revisedMicrosoft is now selling a ECS LIVA Mini Box QC710 Desktop PC in its Store to facilitate Windows on ARM development. (You may remember this machine by its former name--the Snapdragon Development Kit.)
Unfortunately, there isn't a lot of information on the Internet about this machine in one spot and the manufacturer is not very forthcoming with information. So I ordered one and opened it up, so you don't have to.
Photos
https://gist.github.com/riverar/a1aef6224e1e24783596f7e35a9e4103
Documentation
Quick Start
Scanned paper copy (QC710_QuickStart_11182021_600.pdf). Not worth slicing up or reading.
Manual
Digital copy (QC710_UM_11242020.2.pdf). ECS assures me this is applicable to the ECS LIVA Mini Box QC710.
Specifications
External
Dimensions | 119mm width x 116.6mm height x 35mm depth |
Weight | 220g |
Power | SunWard 30W USB-C Wall Charger with Power Delivery (PD) (UL Listed) |
Energy Star | Energy Star Computers Specification Version 8.0[1] (not certified) |
FCC ID | WL6-7180PQC710 |
Case Screws | 4 x Phillips 4mm x 6mm, under rubber ring |
Internal
Processor | Qualcomm SC7180 (7c)[2] |
Graphics | Adreno 618[2:1] |
Memory | LPDDR4X Dual-channel 16-bit (32-bit) @ 2133 MHz[2:2], up to 4GB |
Modem | X15 LTE (800 Mbit/s down, 150 Mbit/s up, theoretical)[2:3] |
Connectivity | Bluetooth 5, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ad/ax, GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NavIC; USB 3.1; eMMC 5.1, UFS 3.0[2:4] |
Storage | eMMC 5.1, up to 64GB |
Ethernet | 10/100/1000M |
Software
The ECS LIVA Mini Box QC710 Desktop ships with customized Windows 10 Home (19043.928) out of the box and requires the out-of-box experience to be completed before use.
Windows Recovery
Mount Windows Partition
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Plug a USB keyboard into the secondary USB port on the side of the box.
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Plug a Windows PC (host) into the rear of the box (target) via the primary USB-A port.
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Power on the box and hold ESC until the Boot Device Selection (BDS) menu appears.
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Type
3
or use the keyboard arrow keys to select Enter Shell. -
At the shell, issue the command:
FS1:
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At the shell, issue the command:
UsbfnMsdApp.efi -m "Basic data partition"
.You should see the output below:
UEFI Interactive Shell v2.1 EDK II UEFI v2.70 (Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., 0x00000000) Shell> FS1:\UsbfnMsdApp.efi -m "Basic data partition" ProcessCmdLineArgs: Setting Basic data partition on 0 SelectCmdLinePartitions: CmdLine Mounting! SelectCmdLinePartitions: Mounting 49 and 65535 MountSelection: Mounting Basic data partition On Lun 0 MountSelection: Press Any Key To Unmount
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At this point, the USB keyboard connected to the box will no longer be functional. That's normal.
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On the host PC, you should see a new driver letter assigned to the target Windows volume.
Replace Windows Installation
- Using File Explorer, right-click the mounted target Windows volume and click Format. Be careful and select the right volume!
- Use the following options to format the volume:
- File system: NTFS
- Allocation unit size: 4096
- Volume label:
Windows
- Format options: Quick Format (checked)
- Obtain a Windows (Arm) installation ISO and double-click it to mount in File Explorer.
- Open an elevated command prompt and issue the command:
dism /Apply-Image /ImageFile:X:\Sources\install.wim /ApplyDir:Y:\
, replacingX:
with the letter assigned to the mounted installation media andY:
with the letter assigned to the target Windows partition. - Download and extract the QC710 driver package to a temporary location.
- Issue the command:
dism /Image:Y:\ /Add-Driver /Driver:C:\Path\To\Extracted\Driver\Package /Recurse
. - Use the Safely remove hardware and eject media icon in the system tray to eject the mass storage device.
Complete Windows Installation
- Hold the power button to turn off the box. (It is highly recommended you eject the device first!)
- Turn on the box.
- Wait until Windows finishes its installation stages and presents the out-of-box experience (OOBE). This will take approximately 15-30 minutes.
- Complete OOBE and set up your PC, as normal.
- Open Device Manager and verify it is clean.