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Wi-Fi: The Intel 7260AC 802.11ac wireless card is known to work well in this series of laptops with a BIOS modification to remove the whitelist implemented into the BIOS (this is model-specific, so find the SP number for your specific model's BIOS on hp.com and look for the equivalent spxxxxx.exe with the whitelist removed). It dramatically ...
In computing, BIOS (/ ˈ b aɪ ɒ s,-oʊ s /, BY-oss, -ohss; Basic Input/Output System, also known as the System BIOS, ROM BIOS, BIOS ROM or PC BIOS) is firmware used to provide runtime services for operating systems and programs and to perform hardware initialization during the booting process (power-on startup). [1]
In November 2007, HP released a BIOS update covering a wide range of laptops with the intent to speed up the computer fan and have it run constantly while the computer was on or off [154] to prevent the overheating of defective Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs) that had been shipped to many of the original equipment manufacturers ...
An option ROM for the PC platform (i.e. the IBM PC and derived successor computer systems) is a piece of firmware that resides in ROM on an expansion card (or stored along with the main system BIOS), which gets executed to initialize the device and (optionally) add support for the device to the BIOS.
The HP Pavilion dv4 featured a 14.1" and the HP Pavilion dv5 a 15.4" display. The dv7 had room for two hard drives, but was supplied with one because if a second hard drive was to be fitted, then a hardware kit consisting of a bracket, connector cable, Mylar shield, and screws was required.
Learn how to download and install or uninstall the Desktop Gold software and if your computer meets the system requirements.
Version 1 of the Desktop Management BIOS (DMIBIOS) specification was produced by Phoenix Technologies in or before 1996. [5] [6] Version 2.0 of the Desktop Management BIOS specification was released on March 6, 1996 by American Megatrends (AMI), Award Software, Dell, Intel, Phoenix Technologies, and SystemSoft Corporation. It introduced 16-bit ...
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) is an open standard that operating systems can use to discover and configure computer hardware components, to perform power management (e.g. putting unused hardware components to sleep), auto configuration (e.g. Plug and Play and hot swapping), and status monitoring.