Supported Models; New Features - HP EliteBook 2560p Overview

2009 hp business notebook pc f10 setup overview

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Background

For decades, HP has provided unique customer value through our internally developed BIOS. This

has allowed HP to provide a high degree of integration between the firmware and HP Professional

Innovations such as HP ProtectTools, HP Wireless Assistant and HP QuickLook. Options for many

of these features are configured through F10 Setup, the BIOS configuration user interface

provided with HP PCs.

In mid-2008, HP introduced an updated version of F10 Setup on new models. This enhanced F10

Setup provides users with an intuitive graphical user interface which leverages from the design

used with the HP ProtectTools BIOS Configuration module.

Overview

Since 1999, HP Compaq business notebooks have utilized a text based F10 Setup which provided

users with access to a broad set of functions and configuration options, but required keyboard

navigation. In 2008, a new F10 Setup user interface has been developed using the Extensible

Firmware Interface (EFI) framework, which provides a flexible pre operating system environment.

While there are significant improvements to the user interface, features and functionality are not

impacted by this change.