HP Business Notebook HP_TOOLS Partition Guidelines

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5. EFI Power Management
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ThereisnopowermanagementunderEFIshell.Therewillbesomethermal
management.
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6. How BIOS Launches EFI and Other Preboot
Applications
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For HP Signed Preboot Applications
TheHPsignedprebootapplications;theexecutablefileandthe
“filename.sig”signaturefilearestoredinthesamesubdirectory.
Incurrentimplementation,therearehotkeys(notedbelow)definedforHP
certainprebootapplications.
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isusedtolaunchtheQuickLookEFIapplication.Thisbuttoncanlaunch
QuickLookfromS5,S4.BIOShasanoptiontodisabletheQuickLook
launch.Ifdisabled,pressingthebuttondoesnothing.
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F2 isusedtolaunchtheDiagnosticEFIapplicationduringPOST.F2willnot
wakethesystemfromS5orS4.ItcanonlybepressedduringPOST
whentheBIOShotkeysareondisplay.
 isusedtolaunchtheQuickWeb.ThisbuttoncanlaunchQuickWebfrom
S5andS4.BIOShasanoptiontodisabletheQuickWeblaunch.If
disabled,pressingthebuttondoesnothing.
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Note:
ThesehotkeyswillonlylaunchthedesignatedsignedHPEFIandpreboot
applications.PleasecontacttheBusinessNotebookBIOSteamtodefineand
assignahotkeyforaspecificEFIapplication.
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