HP's QuickPlay v2.0

[chuck11]

hey wearenotalone, me and you can work something out. Why don't you give me your AIM username or whatever client you use. If we can't figure this out then you could maybe ask some linux people and I know a couple hardcore linux fans so...I hope we can figure this out.

[WeAreNotAlone]

Originally Posted by chuck11

hey wearenotalone, me and you can work something out. Why don't you give me your AIM username or whatever client you use. If we can't figure this out then you could maybe ask some linux people and I know a couple hardcore linux fans so...I hope we can figure this out.

While I apperciate your offer, I really just don't have the time, the programing background, nor the hard core motivation at this point in time. Right now I've been spending alot of time researching the various external hard drive enclosures, focusing on that because I'm wanting to "Ghost" the SATA drive in my dv8000t before messing around with it.... Besides ghosting the hd, I'm wanting a good enclousure to back up 10 years worth of data... I've lost data on hard drives before and it's not a good feeling, luckly when I lost data before it was nothing important.

If I had more time and I was a "programer" type I would, but really don't have to much more time to put into this QuickPlay unless I want a divorce. I've got a house to remodel, have to find some land, and build another house, by myself BTW.... On remodeling the house, I've got about 6,000 sqft of "stuff" in about 1,600 sqft so it's very hard to do anything. Simple 5 minute job turns into 2 hours. Weather has turned good and I really need to focus on getting the house remodeled, getting it sold... Finding a place to store my stuff. One idea I had was to buy some ISO 40ft -53 ft shipping containers to store my stuff in. Fiqured I buy a couple to store the stuff in at the new home site and incorprorate them into the design of the house /shop so I only have to move them (1) time... Maybe incorporating them into the structure as some kind of tornado /storm shelter.


Let's do this, lets see what disc you get... Hopefully it will be QP v2.0....If so lets get a copy posted here and there.

If not, as time permits when we find a thread like I referenced above, post in that thread about QP.

If the disc you get turns out not to be v2.0 I think everyone that owns a HP that has QP v2.0 installed and had NOT received a install disc needs to contact HP directly and demand they be shipped a copy of 2.0.

Ditto if you receive the QP v2.0 disc... Contact HP and demand that either a downloadable version be made available, ship a install disc with the product, Or ship out a free copy to anyone that requests it, if their model shipped with it.

(Seeing how that might that many months, if ever before HP would do so, I'm really hoping you're going to receive v2.0 and you can upload it somewhere.)

Like I posted above it's REAL easy to delete the QP partition... and with no install disc, and no downloadable version of the program there's no way to "re-install" the program... Unless maybe you've "ghosted" the partition/drive... and then run the setup.exe in the C:\SwSetup\QLB that hopefully "re-installs" the program.

QLB =(ini file says: AppName=Quick Launch Buttons)

Got to run, need to hunt up a sata cable/external enclosure so I get the hd ghosted...

Let everyone know when you get the CD. I would assume it would be any day now.

[chuck11]

I wasn't even thinking before, I could use bittorrent to upload it and its faster. If you don't know what it is google it.

[Ericko]

Mmm...I don't really think bittorrent is a good idea.

[BBowermaster]

A little off topic, will the QuickPlay v1 disk posted work with laptops that didn't come with QuickPlay to begin with, or does something have to be enabled in the bios? If its just a linux partition, it might work. Or is there no way to control it without the special media buttons?

P.S. Chuck11, why not just zip the image and split archive it? 3 files at 300mb each, or 5 files at 200mb each, etc. Easier to upload and easier to find a place that can host the split files.

[WeAreNotAlone]

Originally Posted by Ericko

Mmm...I don't really think bittorrent is a good idea.

I'll second that... split the file if needed, upload to a few servers.

[Ericko]

Originally Posted by WeAreNotAlone

I'll second that... split the file if needed, upload to a few servers.

Chuck11: If you share the file with torrents you will need to feed the file for several hours or even days. That's not good for you.

It is better if you upload the file to a server, because this way you will only be uploading the file for a few hours.

Anyway, it's up to you.

Thanks!

[chuck11]

I'll see but for me bittorrent is easier cause I can leave it on and off when needed. Also for some reason I can upload on bt faster than on any shitty upload service and I get info about the status of my upload unlike a little bar saying loading.

[Ericko]

Originally Posted by chuck11

I'll see but for me bittorrent is easier cause I can leave it on and off when needed. Also for some reason I can upload on bt faster than on any shitty upload service and I get info about the status of my upload unlike a little bar saying loading.

OK...just let us know when you start uploading. Thanks!

10 pages, I´m surprissed too! All my threads were so short.

[chuck11]

Lol this thread should be a sticky when its done...10 pages lol...

[WeAreNotAlone]

Originally Posted by chuck11

Lol this thread should be a sticky when its done...10 pages lol...

10 pages???... I'm seeing 4 pages....(TIP: In user CP change the number of posts per page to MAX.)..

Sticky?, I hope so... Chuck11 is going to be allot of people's hero when he uploads the ISO somewhere.

(PS: On the bit torrent, by doing it that way allot of people who really need it will probally not be able to download for various reasons. Some may be at "work", or school and can't install the needed software for example, or are due to security reasons may not want their computer being accessed from the outside. (That is how bit torrent works, right?)

Another reason is on most every board I've been to they don't allow bit torrents...

Hey, on the upload, You said you had Cox Internet. Is that DSL, Or Cable? 256kps sounds about right for DSL if you're on a 3mb connection.

[chuck11]

No I have cox cable. BitTorrent is an amazing thing. Basically it works like p2p works except you get torrents on the internet. You connect to a tracker (which is part of the .torrent file, (some websites tracker like piratebay.org)) and then you connect to the seeds and the seeds share to leachers and it gets shared.

[SVTSnake]

Hey guys, let me chime in on this thread to give some insight of what I have found out so far with QP2. I recieved my DV8000T about 2 weeks ago. I already had my Hitachi 100gb 7200rpm drive sitting here waiting. 1st being disappointed that HP did not ship the secondary HD bracket with my system, I fit the Hitachi into the 2nd drive bay and held it in there with some foam so I could ghost the original drive using True Image 9 onto the new Hitachi drive. Once that was done, I immediately rebooted the computer into QP. Everything worked fine. In True Image, I partitioned the HP recovery partion to 11.9 GB as on the original drive and the QP 2 patition to 1 GB just as on the original drive. I added all the extra space to the C partition. Again, everything worked fine with QP 2 booting properly. Now here is where the stupidity comes in though. Being that I already made my backup DVD's, I told HP Recovery to remove the recovery partition. After doing that, guess what? QP 2 doesn't load properly now. It boots to Windows instead. Looking into it more closely and going through the registry, I notice that under Quickplay, it points to a "config.sys" file to get its settings. So I searched my drive for a config.sys file and found nothing. I tried getting a windows based Linux file browser to search the QP 2 partition, but everything I got wouldn't read the partition. So then I though, maybe its just looking to be a 3rd partition on the drive, so I redid the drie again, making my own 2 partitions for my use and the 1gb partition for QP 2. Reinstalled the OS, and QP 2 still boots to Windows instead of QP! Now why would removing the HP Recovery partition make QP 2 not boot correctly anymore? Could it be reading a config.sys file from that partition to boot into QP 2? Perhaps this a security feature in QP 2 so users of non HP products cannot obtain and use QP 2 on another brand? In the restore options in, when you restore applications, there is an option to restore QP, but I haven't tried just restoring QP after removing the HP Recovery partition.

I spent the better part of a week formatting, reinstalling, getting drunk over this stupid program. Luckily True Image works really well for ghosting and restoring. Some time this week, I will try removing the HP Recovery Partition, and running the restore applications disk to see if I can get QP 2 to work correctly. Right now, I just removed all the HP BS from the system, left the recovery partition, and QP 2 works like a champ on the new Hitachi 100GB 7200RPM drive. Will post more info after I try it what I said above.

I do think all of us need to bombard HP with phone calls and emails until they give us a restore option for this program. Having a notebook filled with their junk is not an option, as we all know it slows it down. Even Dell has a restore disk for MediaDirect 2.0 that is sent to the customer upon asking for it. HP needs to do the same. I also think they should give us all the HD bracket for the secondary up asking. But thats me

[indostylez]

hey guys
ordered my dv5121tx... will be gettin it next week
i tried searching for info on quickplay 2.0 and stumbled on this site
i'm glad i checked this forum before getting the thing.. now i know what things not to do! any chance of seeing a screenshot of this app?

[Ericko]

SVTSnake: Please! Post all the info you can, I think that it may be possible that QPv2 reads that file from the recovery partition.