Maintenance and Service Guide

Recovering using HP Recovery Manager ........................................................................................... 77
Recovering using the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ................................................ 78
Recovering using HP Recovery media ............................................................................................... 78
Changing the computer boot order ................................................................................................... 79
Removing the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ............................................................ 79
Appendix A Battery replacement ..................................................................................................................... 80
Appendix B Statement of memory volatility ..................................................................................................... 83
Current BIOS steps ............................................................................................................................................... 83
Nonvolatile memory usage ................................................................................................................................. 85
Questions and answers ....................................................................................................................................... 86
Using HP Sure Start .............................................................................................................................................. 86
Appendix C Specications ............................................................................................................................... 87
Computer specications ...................................................................................................................................... 87
SATA hard drives .................................................................................................................................................. 89
Appendix D Linux technical notes .................................................................................................................... 90
System RAM ......................................................................................................................................................... 90
Audio .................................................................................................................................................................... 91
Hyper-Threading Technology .............................................................................................................................. 91
NVIDIA graphics workstations ............................................................................................................................. 92
AMD graphics workstations ................................................................................................................................. 93
Index ............................................................................................................................................................. 94
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