Determining the BIOS version ......................................................................................... 67
Downloading a BIOS update ........................................................................................... 67
Changing the boot order using the f9 prompt .................................................................................. 68
TPM BIOS settings (select products only) ........................................................................................................... 68
Using HP Sure Start (select products only) ......................................................................................................... 69
8 DMI programming procedures ....................................................................................................................... 70
HP Common Core BIOS Programming Process .................................................................................................... 70
Programming steps ............................................................................................................................................. 71
9 Using HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) ....................................................................................................... 74
Downloading HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) to a USB device .................................................................... 74
10 Backup and recovery in Windows 7 .............................................................................................................. 76
Creating recovery media and backups ................................................................................................................ 76
Guidelines .......................................................................................................................................... 76
Creating recovery media with HP Recovery Disc Creator ................................................................. 76
Creating recovery media ................................................................................................. 77
Backing up your information ............................................................................................................. 77
Performing a system recovery ............................................................................................................................ 78
Using the Windows recovery tools .................................................................................................... 78
Using f11 recovery tools (select products only) ............................................................................... 79
Using Windows 7 operating system media ....................................................................................... 79
11 Backup and recovery in Windows 10 ............................................................................................................ 81
Creating recovery media and backups ................................................................................................................ 81
Creating HP Recovery media (select products only) ......................................................................... 81
Using Windows tools ........................................................................................................................................... 82
Restore and recovery ........................................................................................................................................... 83
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager ........................................................................................... 83
What you need to know before you get started ............................................................. 83
Using the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ................................................. 84
Using HP Recovery media to recover .............................................................................. 84
Changing the computer boot order ................................................................................ 85
Removing the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ......................................... 86
12 Specications ............................................................................................................................................ 87
Computer specications ...................................................................................................................................... 87
35.6-cm (14.0-in) display specications ............................................................................................................. 88
M.2 solid-state drive specications .................................................................................................................... 89
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