Maintenance and Service Guide
Table Of Contents
- Product features
- Illustrated parts catalog
- Routine care, SATA drive guidelines, and disassembly preparation
- Removal and replacement procedures
- Computer Setup (F10) Utility
- Using HP PC Hardware Diagnostics
- Troubleshooting without diagnostics
- Safety and comfort
- Before you call for technical support
- Helpful hints
- Solving general problems
- Solving power problems
- Solving hard drive problems
- Solving audio problems
- Solving printer problems
- Solving keyboard and mouse problems
- Solving hardware installation problems
- Solving network problems
- Solving memory problems
- Solving USB flash drive problems
- Solving Internet access problems
- Solving software problems
- Backing up, restoring, and recovering
- POST error messages and diagnostic front panel LEDs and audible codes
- Password security and resetting CMOS
- Power cord set requirements
- Statement of memory volatility
- Specifications
- Index
Solid-state drive (M.2)
For a list of available solid-state drives, see Illustrated parts catalog on page 5.
To locate the M.2 SSD on the system board, see Internal components on page 21.
1. Prepare the computer for disassembly (see Preparing to disassemble the computer on page 16).
2. Remove the base unit rear and front access panels (see Base unit access covers on page 17).
3. Move the left fan aside (see Fans on page 27). You do not have to disconnect the fan to remove the solid-
state drive.
4. To remove an M.2 SSD, remove the screw that secures the SSD to the system board (1), and then slide
the SSD out of the system board connector (2).
5. To install an M.2 SSD, slide the connector end of the SSD into the system board connector (1), press the
other end of the SSD down (2), and then secure the SSD to the system board with the screw (3).
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