5 Removal and replacement procedures for Authorized Service Provider parts ................................................... 29
Component replacement procedures ................................................................................................................. 29
Top cover ........................................................................................................................................... 30
Battery ............................................................................................................................................... 33
TouchPad board ................................................................................................................................ 35
Hard drive .......................................................................................................................................... 36
Solid-state drive (SSD) ...................................................................................................................... 38
WLAN module .................................................................................................................................... 40
Speakers ............................................................................................................................................ 42
USB/audio board ............................................................................................................................... 44
Fan ..................................................................................................................................................... 45
Power button board .......................................................................................................................... 47
System board .................................................................................................................................... 49
Memory module ................................................................................................................................ 52
Heat sink ............................................................................................................................................ 54
Display assembly .............................................................................................................................. 56
Power connector cable ...................................................................................................................... 62
6 Using Setup Utility (BIOS) and HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) ................................................................... 64
Starting Setup Utility (BIOS) ................................................................................................................................ 64
Updating the BIOS ................................................................................................................................................ 64
Determining the BIOS version ........................................................................................................... 64
Downloading a BIOS update .............................................................................................................. 65
Using HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) .......................................................................................................... 65
Downloading HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) to a USB device .................................................. 66
7 Specifications ............................................................................................................................................. 67
Computer specifications ...................................................................................................................................... 67
Hard drive specifications ..................................................................................................................................... 68
Solid-state drive specifications ........................................................................................................................... 68
8 Backing up, restoring, and recovering ........................................................................................................... 69
Creating recovery media and backups ................................................................................................................ 69
Creating HP Recovery media ............................................................................................................. 69
Restore and recovery .......................................................................................................................................... 70
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager .......................................................................................... 71
What you need to know .................................................................................................. 71
Using the HP Recovery partition (select models only) .................................................. 71
Using HP Recovery media to recover ............................................................................. 72
Changing the computer boot order ................................................................................ 72
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