Optical drive ....................................................................................................................................... 31
6 Removal and replacement procedures for Authorized Service Provider parts ................................................... 33
Component replacement procedures .................................................................................................................. 33
Display subcomponents (bezel, panel, camera) ............................................................................... 33
Rubber feet ........................................................................................................................................ 37
Bottom cover ..................................................................................................................................... 38
WLAN module .................................................................................................................................... 41
Memory module ................................................................................................................................ 43
Optical drive connector board ........................................................................................................... 44
Hard drive and hard drive connector board ...................................................................................... 45
M.2 solid-state drive adapter bracket and connector board ............................................................ 48
Solid-state drive (SSD) ...................................................................................................................... 50
RTC battery ........................................................................................................................................ 51
Speakers ............................................................................................................................................ 52
USB board .......................................................................................................................................... 53
Fan ..................................................................................................................................................... 54
Heat sink assembly ........................................................................................................................... 56
TouchPad button board ..................................................................................................................... 60
System board .................................................................................................................................... 61
Display assembly ............................................................................................................................... 63
Power connector cable ...................................................................................................................... 73
Power button board .......................................................................................................................... 74
Cable locations .................................................................................................................................. 75
Top cover/keyboard ........................................................................................................................... 76
7 Using Setup Utility (BIOS) ............................................................................................................................. 77
Starting Setup Utility (BIOS) ................................................................................................................................ 77
Updating Setup Utility (BIOS) .............................................................................................................................. 77
Determining the BIOS version ........................................................................................................... 77
Downloading a BIOS update .............................................................................................................. 78
8 Backing up, restoring, and recovering ........................................................................................................... 79
Creating recovery media and backups ................................................................................................................ 79
Creating HP Recovery media (select products only) ......................................................................... 79
Using Windows tools ........................................................................................................................................... 80
Restore and recovery ........................................................................................................................................... 81
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager ........................................................................................... 81
What you need to know before you get started ............................................................. 81
Using the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ................................................. 82
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