Hard drive .......................................................................................................................................... 34
TouchPad ........................................................................................................................................... 35
Memory module ................................................................................................................................ 36
WLAN module .................................................................................................................................... 37
RTC battery ........................................................................................................................................ 39
Card reader board .............................................................................................................................. 40
Solid-state drive ................................................................................................................................ 42
Fan ..................................................................................................................................................... 43
System board .................................................................................................................................... 44
Heat sink ............................................................................................................................................ 47
TouchPad cable .................................................................................................................................. 50
Speakers ............................................................................................................................................ 51
Power connector cable ...................................................................................................................... 52
Display assembly ............................................................................................................................... 53
6 Using Setup Utility (BIOS) ............................................................................................................................. 62
Starting Setup Utility (BIOS) ................................................................................................................................ 62
Updating Setup Utility (BIOS) .............................................................................................................................. 62
Determining the BIOS version ........................................................................................................... 62
Downloading a BIOS update .............................................................................................................. 63
7 Using HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) ....................................................................................................... 64
Downloading HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) to a USB device .................................................................... 64
8 Specications .............................................................................................................................................. 66
Computer specications ...................................................................................................................................... 66
9 Backing up, restoring, and recovering ........................................................................................................... 68
Creating recovery media and backups ................................................................................................................ 68
Creating HP Recovery media (select products only) ......................................................................... 68
Using Windows tools ........................................................................................................................................... 69
Restore and recovery ........................................................................................................................................... 70
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager ........................................................................................... 70
What you need to know before you get started ............................................................. 70
Using the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ................................................. 71
Using HP Recovery media to recover .............................................................................. 71
Changing the computer boot order ................................................................................ 72
Removing the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ......................................... 73
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