Preparation for disassembly ............................................................................................................. 25
Bottom cover ..................................................................................................................................... 25
Battery ............................................................................................................................................... 26
Speakers ............................................................................................................................................  28
Touchpad ...........................................................................................................................................  29
Fingerprint sensor board ..................................................................................................................  31
Fan .....................................................................................................................................................  32
Heat sink ............................................................................................................................................ 33
USB board .......................................................................................................................................... 35
USB door ............................................................................................................................................ 35
System board ....................................................................................................................................  38
Display assembly ............................................................................................................................... 40
Keyboard with top cover ...................................................................................................................  48
6  Backing up, resetting, and recovering ...........................................................................................................  51
Backing up ............................................................................................................................................................ 51
Resetting .............................................................................................................................................................. 51
Recovering ...........................................................................................................................................................  51
Installing the Chromebook Recovery Utility .....................................................................................  51
Creating recovery media ...................................................................................................................  52
Recovering the Chrome operating system .......................................................................................  52
Setting up your computer after a reset or recovery ...........................................................................................  52
Erase and reformat the recovery media .............................................................................................................. 52
7  Specications .............................................................................................................................................. 53
Computer specications ......................................................................................................................................  53
35.6 cm (14.0 in) display specications .............................................................................................................. 53
8  Statement of memory volatility .................................................................................................................... 55
Current BIOS steps ............................................................................................................................................... 55
Nonvolatile memory usage .................................................................................................................................  57
Questions and answers .......................................................................................................................................  59
Using HP Sure Start (select products only) .........................................................................................................  60
9  Power cord set requirements ........................................................................................................................  61
Requirements for all countries ............................................................................................................................ 61
Requirements for specic countries and regions ................................................................................................ 61
10  Recycling ..................................................................................................................................................  63
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