HP Business Notebook and Desktop PC F10 setup overview Technical White Paper Technical white paper

Independent Camera Control

The HP Pro x2 612 G1 includes the ability to separately manage each camera included in this device, via ”enable” and “disable”

settings found in the F10 Setup menu.

NFC Disable by Default

On HP ElitePad 1000 devices, the default setting for NFC is now disabled.

Important Features

Updating BIOS over a network

BIOS Update via Network is the BIOS option that allows BIOS updates to be downloaded over a network from hp.com or a

customer-created repository.

This feature is available on select HP notebooks, desktops, and workstations. For more information on creating a custom

repository, refer to Appendix C

HP Touchpoint Manager Always On Remote Management

Enrolling the PC in the HP Touchpoint Manager cloud service allows the owner to manage the device via the HP Touchpoint

Manager console from a phone, tablet or PC using a standard web browser. After enrollment, when the machine is running

Windows, the HP Touchpoint Manager agent on the platform forwards service commands to the system BIOS to execute

security and management tasks including a machine lock and a hard drive wipe. If the machine is placed into a Sleep,

Hibernate, or Off state the device will then periodically “call home” to the HP Touchpoint Manager server to report its status

and retrieve/execute any pending commands. This feature also reports boot error codes to the Touchpoint Manager server to

assist in problem resolution and decrease the number of returned systems.

For more information on setting up and using HP Touchpoint Manager Always On Remote Management, refer to Appendix D

For more information on boot error codes refer to Appendix E.

HP Sure Start

Select EliteBook PCs offer HP Sure Start, which provides hardware-based assurance of the following:

• HP-approved firmware is running on the HP Embedded Controller (EC) – EC Options in BIOS found under “BIOS

Integrity Checking” and in some systems as “HP Sure Start.”

• An HP-approved BIOS is running on the host processor

HP Sure Start verifies the integrity of HP BIOS code residing in the main flash and provides self-healing mechanisms to restore

any code that has been corrupted within the flash.

For more information, see the Sure Start section of this document (Appendix A).

Additional enhancements

For select PCs without HP Sure Start, HP has enhanced its protection against attacks at the BIOS level. This added security is a

part of HP BIOSphere and includes:

• Inspection of the system BIOS prior to each boot of the host processor, ensuring only HP approved code executes at

start-up

• Delivery of an enhanced core root of trust, based on hardware, not software, and not easily circumvented via

physical replacement

• Support across multiple chipsets

• Platform support for HP 400 series ProBooks

F10 Setup for HP Business Notebooks

HP F10 Setup features for business notebooks include file, security, and system configuration categories.

Main menu

The Main menu provides access to general options such as:

• System Information