HP PC Commercial BIOS (UEFI) Setup Administration Guide For Business Notebook and Desktop 2015 Models - Technical whitepaper

May 2016
857394-002
HP PC Commercial BIOS (UEFI) Setup
© Copyright 2016 HP Development Company, L.P.
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2 Introduction
This white paper provides detailed information about features adjusted through the F10 BIOS setup menu. The section on
computer notifications provides an explanation for the LED blink codes and screen messages that may occur.
For decades, HP has provided an industry leading level of built in customer value through an internally developed Read Only
Memory Basic Input/Output System (ROM BIOS), a set of routines that enable a PC to load the operating system and
communicate with various devices such as storage drives, keyboard, display, slots, and ports. The BIOS ensures that there is
a high degree of integration between firmware and HP professional innovations such as HP ProtectTools, HP Power
Assistant, and HP Client Management Solutions.
Currently a common BIOS experience for HP notebooks and desktops has been developed. Desktop models will move to a
notebook user interface that supports mouse control. To help users understand the new features, the description of each
feature includes a reference to the name and location of that feature from the previous year, if it is different from the
current year.
2.1 Supported models
This document applies to HP commercial-grade notebooks and desktops. That is 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.
This document applies to 2015 models only. For reasons previously stated, the BIOS setup menu has significant changes
from previous years. For reference, the table below shows the year associated with particular models. In the feature
documentation below, references to 2014 models are applicable to 2014 and earlier.
Table 1 Notebook Generations
Platforms
2013
2014
2015
HP EliteBook Folio
9480m
x
HP EliteBook Folio
1040
G2
G3
HP EliteBook Folio
1020
G1
HP ZBook
17
x
G2
G3
HP ZBook
15
x
G2
G3
HP ZBook
14
x
G2
HP ZBook
15u
G2
G3
HP EliteBook
850
G1
G2
G3
HP EliteBook
840
G1
G2
G3
HP EliteBook
820
G1
G2
G3
HP EliteBook
755
G2
G3
HP EliteBook
745
G2
G3
HP EliteBook
725
G2
G3
HP ProBook
470
G2
G3