Component replacement procedures ........................................................................................ 28
Feet ....................................................................................................................... 28
Bottom cover .......................................................................................................... 29
Solid-state drive (SSD) .............................................................................................. 30
WLAN module ........................................................................................................ 32
Display assembly .................................................................................................... 34
Speaker assembly ................................................................................................... 37
Touchpad ............................................................................................................... 39
Fan ....................................................................................................................... 41
Heat sink ................................................................................................................ 43
Battery ................................................................................................................... 46
System board ......................................................................................................... 48
Power connector cable ............................................................................................ 51
Power button board ................................................................................................. 52
Keyboard and top cover .......................................................................................... 54
5 Using Setup Utility (BIOS) and HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) .................................. 57
Starting Setup Utility (BIOS) ..................................................................................................... 57
Updating the BIOS ................................................................................................................. 57
Determining the BIOS version ................................................................................... 57
Downloading a BIOS update .................................................................................... 58
Using HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) ................................................................................ 59
Downloading HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) to a USB device ............................... 59
6 Specifications ................................................................................................................. 60
Computer specifications .......................................................................................................... 60
13.3-inch FHD display specifications ........................................................................................ 61
13.3-inch QHD display specifications ....................................................................................... 62
7 Backing up, restoring, and recovering ............................................................................ 63
Creating recovery media and backups ..................................................................................... 63
Creating HP Recovery media .................................................................................... 63
Restore and recovery .............................................................................................................. 65
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager .................................................................... 65
What you need to know ............................................................................ 66
Using the HP Recovery partition (select models only) ..................................... 66
Using HP Recovery media to recover .......................................................... 67
Changing the computer boot order ............................................................. 67
Removing the HP Recovery partition .......................................................................... 67
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