HP's QuickPlay v2.0 - Page 27

I plan on formatting and reinstalling windows. I would also like to keep Quickplay. Could someone please upload QuickPlay 2.0? Thanks ahead of time... I'll be sure to shower whomever does with more praise and love afterwards.

QuickPlay on non North-American V3000 models?

A friend of mine bought a V3010AU. I came without any software, I have downloaded the 3 files from the links found this thread (to above poster, read this thread before posting or use the search function) and also the 1.x ISO. When i try to install it 2.x says my "mechine" (nice english) doesn't support this model (i left around 2gb free unpartitioned space) and 1.x ISO boots fine but also says this model isnt supported (made a 250mb partition for it and tried both unformatted and linux formatted). The PDF about this model says only North-American models support QuickPlay, HP customer support in this country (Malaysia) claims *no* presario supports QuickPlay. Can anyone tell me what the difference is between the North-American models and the rest of the worlds models? Is it BIOS or really hadrware that prevents QuickPlay from installing/working. Maybe something with partitions preventing 2.x to install? and 1.x too? Any help would be really apriciated. Thank you, and already a big thank you to everybody who helped and posted links to files in this thread!

edit: can someone please give me a link to download the windows part of qp 1 and/or 2, the 40mb thing that is i think, cheers

stimey - Yes, the bios is what allows/prevents QP from installing. You can sometimes bypass that by updating the registry before installing QP2.x. Search on my username in this post and you should see the exact registry entry required. (sorry I don't have it with me) Also, somewhere back in this post, someone posted a link to the QP2.x windows code. I believe it was before the QP2.x Direct code was posted.

I have no idea if the Presario can even run QP, but you can always try.

AmigaDude - yeah i tried your registry hack but it didnt do anything, it still gave me the "can not install on mechine" error.. I cant find any link to the windows version of quickplay, i tried the search and checked a load of pages, a lot of links are also down or say "maximum slots for yorucountry reached" and it says that no matter when i try to download, trying to sell me premium account Anyone with a link to the QP windows s/w let me know please, thanks..

Here is the QP2.0 Windows code @ 39Mbytes - http://http://depositfiles.com/files/295897/

ne1 try to install QP2.x on Vista RC1? I am trying to locate the installer online with no luck so far. if some one can repost it it would be a great help. for those of you with the dv9008nr like me; I modified the Vista driver nVidia had so it now works on my laptop. Anyone needing it or have a link to QP2.x please email me at christopher.adrian77@gmail.com

woot! thank you.
i been to the HP support center here today and had an interesting chat with one of their engineers. they found it very weird too that the american v3000 series support and have quickplay, but any non american v3000 model doesnt
they tried a couple of quickplay installation cd's but none worked
i guess i have to wait and hope that an american v3000 series owner can copy their quickplay recovery cd so i can try that on the v3000 series here
he also said he would bring this issue up with his supervisor..
i wonder what that will yield to
the issue isnt that non american version of the v3000 series dont support quickplay, they do
its the installers not wanting to install on it unless your bios/product-id/serial is allowed/matches some build-in list/check

ive downloaded the quickplay 1.1 opensource, but it doesnt include any hp stuff
just the open source packages they used, so its pretty useless
tonight i will have a go at trying to figure out how the 1.1 linux cd does it checks
and if i can find out how and where i could try and find a way around it
apart from that i'll just have to wait till they release quickplay for non american version of the v3000 series and/or bios update so it allows installation of 1.x and 2.x on the v3000 series
customer support in the UK told me that there *might* be future releases for the non american versions, but i wont get my hopes up
if only some american owner of a v3000 series would copy their quickplay recovery/installation cd

AmigaDude - you think it would be possible to "fool" the windows based installed of the stand alone quickplay (the 3 big files unpacked) to install on my v3000? your registry hack didnt seem todo anything and my windows skills are not quite good enough to figure out what it checks and what calls it makes, maybe you can help me out or tell me what tools to use to check what it does.. thanks!

can quickplay be modified to support other audio codecs such as AAC?

huchris27 - Look at post #513 for a possible way to install codecs, if you are bold and daring.

stimey - 2 things on QP2.x:
1 - I used a disassembler ( isd I think ) for the install script to get the code used during the install routines, and walked through with some intuition.

2 - Looking it over, the ONLY time the 'mechine' error message is used is when it is checking for the QPFlag=3 by a call to HPDUtil.DLL. On most machines the registry hack must be tricking the dll into ignoring the bios and using what is there, and I can't understand why yours would be different.

I suggest that you double check your registry to make sure that the spelling and placement is correct. (The upper / lower case MAY be important, though I never checked) This is what I used:

ah cool, i will give it another go.. the QWP installs DVDPlay on my V3000 but refuses to install on my EVO notebook it says "can only install on hp computers" on that one.. i will report later on, thanks for the info!

edit:

installing quickplay on my V3000 (v3010au) machine

- download the 3x 200mb files
- run setup and get "quickplay can not be installedon this machine" error
- run registry hack:

- try setup.exe
ran into this at 15%:

---------------------------
ComponentMoveData Error Information
---------------------------
ComponentMoveData had the following error:

Component: QuickPlay Component
File Group:
File:
Error Number: -2147418113
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OK
---------------------------

fix for above:

- remove *all* paritions except the 1st primairy windows partition
- re-run setup and watch it fly

its done installing and wants me to reboot, i will report after my reboot
no matter what happens after this i wanna give a load of credit to AmigaDude
and the people who spend their time to upload the installers
also the installer created a 1gb ntfd partition at the *end* of my hd
ive added a drive letter for it Q seemed best to see whats on there
and it looks like a mini windows install, very interesting
also itso nly using about 500mb of the 1gb it has allocated
i have 1st primairy partition 15gb for windows
and left the rest empty, not i got 15gb/40gb unallocated/1gb quicktime
i hope quickplay works, and keeps working when i reuse the middle unallocated part
we'll see, time to reboot now!

DVD movie help

HI. I am new to this forum and just recently purchased a HP dv2000t. First time on laptops. I do not know what to expect while watching a DVD movie on the computer. Sometimes the picture freezes and locks-up. I never had this problem with my desktop. Any thoughts? Is this behavior to be expected on a small laptop?
Thanks for your time and help,

Bob
dv2000t, 1.6 GHz core duo, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD, multi CD/DVD writer, QUICKPLAY, wireless, etc...

I would recommend that you run windows update and see if the problem is still there. If so, you can go through HP tech support { http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/contact/chat_1.html } or else you can backup your recovery partition and do a full wipe and reinstall everything from there. I did that but did not backup Quickplay before i installed Vista so I got screwed If you are doing that be sure to follow the instructions for partitioning you Hard Drive for QP in this thread.

Could be a bunch of things...

How to Optimize a Notebook Computer

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=5787

Hi Stimey,

Any good results from your experiment? I have a Presario V3040TU and tried all the necessaries but to no avail.

Hear from you soon!

Cheers

Yes and no
After installation my XP bluescreened and when rebooting again while pressing the media key it tried to boot into XP embeded but that also bluescreened.
I spend some time trying to figure out how and why beforei restored my backup. Ghost is your friend when playing with this stuff When i have some more time on my hands i will try some other things, the good thing is that it instaleld fine, and the media button worked as it set the QP partition active. That said, the QP partition would remain active even when booting from a CD (Hiren's boot cd is another friend) and setting the main XP partition active, then after a reboot the QP partition would be active again. This could have something todo with the fact QP didnt actualy run/shutdown properly and/or the normal XP thinks its supposed to boot into QP. Ive seen AmigaDude also got into some BSODS i think i have to read up on his posts before having a go at this again, al in all positive news apart form the BSODS. Anyone wanting to give this a try backup your current XP with ghost or something, put it on a usb stick/ext. before you play around. Hirens boot CD can use usb sticks just fine and will save a lot of time cuz you dont have to reinstall your windows Good luck to all. And if anyone has some pointers as why it BSOD's please give them to me
When booting into safe mode with both XP and embeded XP i got the same BSOD after clsupper.sys: 0x0000007B (0xF9E53524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

Hey guys. I'm sorry to do this on my first post..but..

This thread is 36 pages long. I have been reading it for 2 hours (Up to page 16) where I found dead downloads for QP2.0..

I've got QP2.0 downloaded and extracted. I get the "Quickplay can only be installed bla bla bla" message when I try to install via Windows.

A little backhistory on my machine.

The computer is a DV1519us. I don't know what version of QP it originally came with because when I got it, it had no HDD (Auction). So my first step was to install a hard drive and Windows, and all available drivers/updates from HP.

Good to go, right? Of course not. Everything works except the QP button, which, from a cold boot, launches QP and then turns the computer off, only to reboot into Windows.

So I'm guessing this is because QP is not installed. I have no restore disks and HP wants 50 bucks for a QP disk...I think not, as this is more then I payed for the notebook..

I was reading some other forums. They say that QP2 requres a 250mb partition (Which I have made with Partition Magic 8). That's all the news I've got.

So, if I burn my copy of QP2 to a CD, making it bootable with Nero, I should be able to boot off of it and install, right?

I honestly don't know. I've been struck by the "Crappy media" bug and cannot currently write disks with ANY computer I've got..

I'm going to need this machine in 2 weeks for a very long trip, and having the ability to use the QuickPlay feature would be very nice.

If someone could post a step-by-step "How to", or even copy and paste one into an email for me, I'd really appreciate it! I've read so much over the last 2 days on this that my head is spinning and everywhere I turn I get different answers--none of which work--and now I'm not even sure I can make this work on a DV1000-series..

And if not--anyone know where I can get QP1.0? :\

ramp4ge - please read my posts above
be sure to leave atleast 1024mb unpartitioned space for qp2
only qp1 needs 250mb, qp2 needs 1gb of which it will use about 500mb
try what i did and it will work for you
as your bios/notebook has proper qp support, unlike mine
i need some v3000's american bios since only american v3000's have quickplay
if you still have questions after reading my posts let me know
good luck

ramp4ge - Since this is your first QP install, I suggest you go with QPv1 which is what HP officially supports. Eriko posted a link to the CD in post #110 ( http://www.notebookforums.com/post2033536.html ), which is in NERO format so you will need something that can burn a CD from that.
Just follow these steps:
1) Burn CD
2) Boot from CD, which install QPv1
3) try it out...
4) Goto HP.com and download QPv1.30 update for your laptop
5) Install update, and you are done!
Now if you want you can try the QPv2 stuff, but it requires reading through to see the gotchas.

stimey - I forget exactly what caused my bluescreens, but I do recall that the install code wants you to reboot immediately. It alters the boot sequece so the next boot is to the 2nd partition where it spends a few minutes completing the install. ANY changes to what it thinks should be on the disk and the boot fails, so no disks/partitions can be added until this is complete. While I'm not sure, I don't think it likes when you assign a drive letter to that new partition.

I will give that a try !
The installer installs everythign to X: which is hidden in explorer,
but if you just type X:\ in the address bar you will go there.
Anyways, i wont touch anything and reboot when the installer wants.
Me bad, me don't listen to installers, me do now

edit:

Done, still get the 0x0000007B BSOD which means that it cant access the boot device or something.
I'm now reading this and this page, hopefully it shines some light on howto fix it.
Other than me restoring my ghost

I edited both boot.ini's to show me a boot menu, letting me pick xp pro or xp embedded.
It seems that no matter what i set active with other tools,
the QT partition is *always* activated somehow.
When i select xp pro the laptop boots fine.
But when i select xp embedded i get the blue screen.
Im starting to think that it might be missing some drivers or something.
I will go and try to fix the blue screen in xp embedded, checking out drivers first.
Too bad i dont have a xp embedded boot cd to copy drivers from or try a R repair installation
Anyways, i will update here later!

Sorry to here about the troubles stimey. (yes, I've seen/used the X: drive myself )

To recover you need to replace the MBR, which you can do by booting off a WinXP setup disk and going into the recovery console and typing fixmbr . This should cause the system to restore the original MBR which boots XP off the primary partition, leaving the QP partition unreachable. (which is what you want for now) The real problem is the partition table has the 0x80 byte turned on for the QP partition to boot, and you need to set it for the WinXP partition. A partition editor would help alot if you have one.

The only reason I can fathom for your continuing problems is that you have a SATA drive, and QP2.1 does not have drivers included in the Embedded configuration.