Cleaning your computer ...................................................................................................................................... 48
Cleaning procedures .......................................................................................................................... 48
Cleaning the display ........................................................................................................ 49
Cleaning the sides or cover ............................................................................................. 49
Cleaning the TouchPad, keyboard, or mouse (select products only) ............................. 49
Traveling with or shipping your computer .......................................................................................................... 49
9 Backup and recovery .................................................................................................................................... 51
Creating recovery media and backups ................................................................................................................ 51
Creating HP Recovery media (select products only) ......................................................................... 51
Using Windows tools ........................................................................................................................................... 52
Restore and recovery ........................................................................................................................................... 53
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager ........................................................................................... 53
What you need to know before you get started ............................................................. 53
Using the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ................................................. 54
Using HP Recovery media to recover .............................................................................. 54
Changing the computer boot order ................................................................................ 55
Removing the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ......................................... 55
10 Computer Setup (BIOS), TPM, and HP Sure Start ............................................................................................ 56
Using Computer Setup ......................................................................................................................................... 56
Starting Computer Setup .................................................................................................................. 56
Navigating and selecting in Computer Setup ................................................................................... 56
Restoring factory settings in Computer Setup ................................................................................. 57
Updating the BIOS ............................................................................................................................. 58
Determining the BIOS version ......................................................................................... 58
Downloading a BIOS update ........................................................................................... 58
Changing the boot order using the f9 prompt .................................................................................. 59
TPM BIOS settings (select products only) ........................................................................................................... 59
Using HP Sure Start (select products only) ......................................................................................................... 60
11 Using HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) ..................................................................................................... 61
Downloading HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) to a USB device .................................................................... 61
12 Specications ............................................................................................................................................ 63
Input power .......................................................................................................................................................... 63
Operating environment ....................................................................................................................................... 63
13 Electrostatic Discharge .............................................................................................................................. 64
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