Appendix A Battery replacement ............................................................................................................................................................ 94

Appendix B Statement of memory volatility ......................................................................................................................................... 97

Current BIOS steps ................................................................................................................................................................. 97

Nonvolatile memory usage .................................................................................................................................................. 99

Questions and answers ...................................................................................................................................................... 101

Using HP Sure Start (select models only) ........................................................................................................................ 102

Appendix C Specifications ...................................................................................................................................................................... 103

Appendix D Linux technical notes ......................................................................................................................................................... 105

System RAM .......................................................................................................................................................................... 105

Audio ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 106

Network cards ...................................................................................................................................................................... 106

Hyper-Threading Technology ............................................................................................................................................ 106

NVIDIA Graphics Workstations ........................................................................................................................................... 107

Index ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 108

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Using HP Recovery media to recover .................................................................... 92

Changing the computer boot order ....................................................................... 93

Removing the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ............................ 93

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