WLAN module .................................................................................................................................... 27
RTC battery ........................................................................................................................................ 29
Heat sink ............................................................................................................................................ 30
Speakers ............................................................................................................................................ 32
System board .................................................................................................................................... 33
TouchPad ........................................................................................................................................... 35
Display assembly ............................................................................................................................... 37
Power button board .......................................................................................................................... 43
Power connector cable ...................................................................................................................... 44
Keyboard/top cover ........................................................................................................................... 45
Determining the BIOS version ........................................................................................................... 46
Downloading a BIOS update .............................................................................................................. 47
Before you begin ............................................................................................................. 49
Creating the recovery media ........................................................................................... 50
Restoring, resetting, and refreshing using Windows tools .............................................................. 50
Restoring using HP Recovery Manager and the HP Recovery partition ........................................... 50
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager ........................................................................................... 51
Recovering using the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ................................................ 51
Recovering using HP Recovery media ............................................................................................... 52
Changing the computer boot order ................................................................................................... 52
Removing the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ............................................................ 52
Downloading the latest HP PC Hardware Diagnostics Windows version ....................... 54
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