Maintenance and Service Guide

Changing the computer boot order ....................................................................... 92
Removing the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ............................ 92
Appendix A Battery replacement ............................................................................................................................................................ 93
Appendix B Statement of memory volatility ......................................................................................................................................... 96
Nonvolatile memory usage .................................................................................................................................................. 96
Recommended steps for clearing user data and custom settings ................................................................................ 97
Clearing storage drives (hard drive, solid-state drive, NVMe, and other) ..................................................................... 98
Questions and answers ......................................................................................................................................................... 99
Using HP Sure Start ............................................................................................................................................................... 99
Appendix C Specications ...................................................................................................................................................................... 100
Appendix D Linux technical notes ......................................................................................................................................................... 102
System RAM .......................................................................................................................................................................... 102
Audio ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 103
Hyper-Threading Technology ............................................................................................................................................ 103
NVIDIA graphics workstations ............................................................................................................................................ 104
AMD graphics workstations ................................................................................................................................................ 105
Index ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 106
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