HP PC Commercial BIOS (UEFI) Setup

HP PC Commercial BIOS (UEFI) Setup
July 2020
919946-004
© Copyright 2016-2020 HP Development Company, L.P.
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2 Introduction
This whitepaper provides detailed information about features adjusted through the BIOS setup menu, which is accessible
during system boot-up by using the ‘F10’ function key. In addition, the sections on computer notifications provides an
explanation for the LED blink codes and screen messages that may occur during the early part of boot-up.
For decades, HP has provided an industry-leading level of built-in customer value through internally developed system
firmware (BIOS). Current BIOS designs use common, publicly available UEFI core functions as a starting point, extended with
unique HP features and adapted for each system’s unique hardware, operating system, and software requirements. The
BIOS also exposes and provides the interfaces required to use unique firmware and hardware-based HP professional
innovations such as HP Sure Start, HP Sure Run, HP Sure Admin, HP Sure Recover, and HP Client Security Manager.
This document has been updated to reflect new and updated features in the ‘S’ family of BIOS, introduced in 2020. An S
family BIOS is a version that begins with the letter S. For example, S71 Ver. 01.01.00 . Previous generations of commercial
PCs had BIOS family designations of R (2019), Q (2017-2018), P (2016), and N (2015) which are also covered by this
whitepaper. Some of the features in the later platforms are not supported in earlier models, and some older settings may
be deprecated in newer models. Many of the features and settings are dependent on specific hardware or design elements
that are not present on every model. Therefore this document describes the superset of BIOS settings across the portfolio
of products listed, and not all current generation products support all of the BIOS features described here.
2.1 Supported models – 2020 (UEFI only)
The first set of chapters below – Chapters 3 through 5 – apply to the most recent HP commercial-grade PC products
released in 2020. Commercial-grade means products designed to meet the demanding security and manageability
requirements of national, regional, and local government agencies, schools, the military, international financial institutions
and retail sales companies. The models covered in this first section only support UEFI based operating systems. There is
no support for legacy DOS, Windows, or Linux configurations in the products listed below:
Table 1 Notebook Generations (UEFI only)
Platforms
2020
(most are
‘S’ Family)
UEFI Specification supported:
2.7
HP ZBook
Firefly 14, 15
G7
HP ZBook
Fury 15, 17
G7
HP ZBook
Create
G7
HP ZBook
Studio
G7
HP ZBook
Power
G7
HP EliteBook
850
G7
HP EliteBook
840
G7
HP EliteBook
830
G7
HP EliteBook
855
G7
HP EliteBook
845
G7
HP EliteBook
835
G7