Battery ............................................................................................................................................... 29
Speakers ............................................................................................................................................ 30
Audio board ....................................................................................................................................... 32
Power button board .......................................................................................................................... 33
Volume board .................................................................................................................................... 35
Rear webcam module and lens ......................................................................................................... 36
System board .................................................................................................................................... 38
Dock component replacement procedures ......................................................................................................... 40
Bottom cover ..................................................................................................................................... 40
Hard drive .......................................................................................................................................... 42
Docking board (models with a hard drive) ........................................................................................ 43
Docking board (models without a hard drive) .................................................................................. 45
TouchPad board ................................................................................................................................. 46
Hinge assembly ................................................................................................................................. 47
Hinge components ............................................................................................................................ 48
Top cover/keyboard ........................................................................................................................... 52
6 Using Setup Utility (BIOS) ............................................................................................................................. 53
Starting Setup Utility (BIOS) ................................................................................................................................ 53
Updating Setup Utility (BIOS) .............................................................................................................................. 53
Determining the BIOS version ........................................................................................................... 53
Downloading a BIOS update .............................................................................................................. 54
7 Using HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) ....................................................................................................... 56
Downloading HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) to a USB device .................................................................... 56
8 Specications .............................................................................................................................................. 58
9 Backing up, restoring, and recovering ........................................................................................................... 59
Creating recovery media and backups ................................................................................................................ 59
Creating HP Recovery media (select products only) ......................................................................... 59
Using Windows tools ........................................................................................................................................... 60
Restore and recovery ........................................................................................................................................... 61
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager ........................................................................................... 61
What you need to know before you get started ............................................................. 61
Using the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ................................................. 62
Using HP Recovery media to recover .............................................................................. 62
Changing the computer boot order ................................................................................ 63
Removing the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ......................................... 64
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