2 Introduction
This white paper provides detailed information about features adjusted through the F10 BIOS setup menu. The section on
computer notifications provides an explanation for the LED blink codes and screen messages that may occur.
For decades, HP has provided an industry leading level of built in customer value through an internally developed Read Only
Memory Basic Input/Output System (ROM BIOS), a set of routines that enable a PC to load the operating system and
communicate with various devices such as storage drives, keyboard, display, slots, and ports. The BIOS also exposes and
provides the interfaces required to use unique firmware and hardware based HP professional innovations such as HP Sure
Start, HP Sure Run, and HP Sure Recover, and HP Client Security Manager .
To help users understand the new features, the description of each feature includes a reference to the name and location of
that feature from the previous year, if it is different from the current year.
This document has been updated to reflect new and updated features in the “Q” family of BIOS, introduced in 2017 & 2018.
A “Q” family BIOS is a version that begins with the letter “Q”. For example, “Q01 Ver. 01.02.04 12/12/2017”. The new
features in those platforms may not be supported in early models. Also, note that this document is the superset of BIOS
setting across the product portfolio – not all current generation products support all the BIOS features described here.
2.1 Supported models
This document applies to HP commercial-grade PC products. That is products designed to meet the demanding security and
manageability requirements of national, regional, and local government agencies, schools, the military, international
financial institutions and retail sales companies.
This document applies to 2015 and later models only. For reference, the table below shows the year associated with
models in the feature documentation below.
Table 1 Notebook Generations
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