Top cover ........................................................................................................................................... 27
Hard drive .......................................................................................................................................... 30
Solid-state drive (M.2) ....................................................................................................................... 32
WLAN module .................................................................................................................................... 34
Speakers ............................................................................................................................................ 35
USB board (USB/volume/hard drive LED/card reader) ...................................................................... 37
System board .................................................................................................................................... 39
Memory module ................................................................................................................................ 42
Heat sink ............................................................................................................................................ 44
Battery ............................................................................................................................................... 47
Display assembly ............................................................................................................................... 49
Power button board .......................................................................................................................... 57
Power connector cable ...................................................................................................................... 58
6 Using Setup Utility (BIOS) in Windows 8.1 ...................................................................................................... 59
Starting Setup Utility (BIOS) ................................................................................................................................ 59
Updating the BIOS ................................................................................................................................................ 59
Determining the BIOS version ........................................................................................................... 59
Downloading a BIOS update .............................................................................................................. 60
Synchronizing a tablet and keyboard (select models only) ................................................................................ 61
7 Using Setup Utility (BIOS) in Windows 10 ....................................................................................................... 62
Starting Setup Utility (BIOS) ................................................................................................................................ 62
Updating Setup Utility (BIOS) .............................................................................................................................. 62
Determining the BIOS version ........................................................................................................... 62
Downloading a BIOS update .............................................................................................................. 63
Synchronizing a tablet and keyboard (select products only) .............................................................................. 64
8 Using HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) ....................................................................................................... 65
Downloading HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) to a USB device .................................................................... 66
9 Backing up, restoring, and recovering in Windows 8.1 .................................................................................... 67
Creating recovery media and backups ................................................................................................................ 67
Creating HP Recovery media (select models only) ........................................................................... 67
Using Windows tools ........................................................................................................................................... 68
Restore and recovery ........................................................................................................................................... 68
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager ........................................................................................... 69
What you need to know before you get started ............................................................. 69
Using the HP Recovery partition (select models only) ................................................... 70
Using HP Recovery media to recover .............................................................................. 70
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