HP's QuickPlay v2.0 - Page 30

tsk, tsk, tsk, ... too lazy to read and memorize 39 pages...

OK, here you go .. the easy foolproof (well, almost) method of getting QP working on a DV1000 so you can report back what you like or dislike.

What you need:

1. DV1000 (of course) with WinXP CD
2. Quickplay 1.20 CD ( can be downloaded above )
3. Quickplay 1.30 patch ( can be downloaded from HP )
4. Quickplay 2.3 Files ( can be downloaded above )
5. Hardisk formatted with only 1 Partition C: of WinXP (Pro or Home) and at least 1.30 GB free space

What you do:

1. Get WinXP Installed, patched, etc.. to your liking and take a BACKUP
2. Boot from Quickplay 1.2 CD and install Quickplay
3. Boot WinXP and Install Quickplay 1.30 Patch
4. Install Registry Update - ( see below )
5. Install Quickplay/Windows 2.30 ( QPW\Setup.exe )
6. Install Quickplay/Direct 2.30 ( HPQPDP\Setup.exe )
7. Reboot as requested to Auto-complete Quickplay 2.30 setup
8. Will autoreboot back to Windows, so Shutdown Notebook

Testing QP (From power off)
QP1.30 - Hit any Media key and QP1.30 should start

QP2.30 - Hit the Power key, pause 1/2 second then any Media key and QP2.3 should start

Install QP Registry Update by creating a text file and putting these lines into it:
Save the file as something.reg, i.e. QPFlag.Reg
Right-click on the file and select MERGE

OR

Install the entries manually using Regedit ( upper/lower case is important )

I really appreciate the posting of the above directions. With that, I followed them to the letter and here is what I encountered. When I reboot, I got the Blue Screen. The reason is the quickplay becomes the active partition. I changed windows back to the active but then it reports something to the effect of a hardware failure (don't recall exactly). When I completely delete the new quickplay partion I am able to boot back into windows. I tried repeating the process a couple of times with the same results.

Good News is, it did allow me to install quickplay 2.3 (as before it said it could not). Bad news is it wouldn't let me boot to it. 1.3 still works just fine though.

Any thoughts?

Good afternoon guys,

Just checkin' in and say hello, I'm new here.
This thread is indeed very usefull for me and my DV1625TS.

Thanks a LOT for the informations.
Keep this up!

Since the World Series is over I had a little time on my hands last night. So, I deleted all partitions except WinXP, then followed the steps I gave above. (already had the registry fix, so no need for that) It worked perfectly, and QP2.3 is playing as I type. Something is obviously different with your setup, (even though I once had a similar problem but don't remember what I could've done to fix it??)

IF you have a good backup and some time, then here is one possible suggestion:

- Reinstall QP2.3 and stop at the point where it asks you to reboot.
- Leave that prompt window open, and move it out of your way
- Right-Click on My Computer and select Manage
- Select Disk Management from the new window
- Disk 0 should show the following, left to right:
(1) WinXP partition
(2) Uknown Partition ~200mb (this is QP1.30)
<possible free space>
(3) Uknown Partition ~1GB (this is QP2.3)

- Right-Click on the QP2.3 (last) partition and select "Change Drive letter..." and assign drive letter Y to it.
- Save , exit to Win desktop
- Use Explorer go to the Y:\ drive and open the boot.ini file
Post back with the boot.ini contents from your C: and Y: drives, just in case ..
- Ensure it says boot from partition 3, change both lines if neccessary
i.e. default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS
- Save the file and exit.
- Go back and UNDO the drive mapping for Y:

Now you can respond OK to the request for a reboot that is sitting there, and hopefully it boots into QP2.3 to finish installing. If it fails again make note of that error message you said you got.

for all the lazy people... this is my homage to all the hard work on this forum on this particular topic. i have consolidated links to all available QuickPlay files anyone may need.

thanks again all!

http://www.dv1000forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=1954

Hi

Could someone upload quickplay 2.3 or 2.1 to some more friendly site? that megaupload is horrible. I`m not gonna pay for a premium i cannot use free option cause they have connection limits. Torrent would be great thing. Really.
RapidShare is good but it`s missing two files.

thank you

Could you reupload it to rapidshare or yousendit? I can't get it from deposit..
Thanks in advance

uploading (2.3 and then 2.1)...

QuickPlay installation files!

i forgot its a registered only forum...


Quickplay v2.3:
1 of 9: http://www.sendspace.com/file/0g0b78
2 of 9: http://www.sendspace.com/file/k67vvb
3 of 9: http://www.sendspace.com/file/f1held
4 of 9: http://www.sendspace.com/file/232rok
5 of 9: http://www.sendspace.com/file/w7o0ol
6 of 9: http://www.sendspace.com/file/k9h4fe
7 of 9: http://www.sendspace.com/file/ug2vub
8 of 9: http://www.sendspace.com/file/lg3syk
9 of 9: http://www.sendspace.com/file/wvdr1u

Quickplay v2.1:
part 1: http://depositfiles.com/files/151944...part1.rar.html
part 2: http://depositfiles.com/files/152161...part2.rar.html
part 3: http://depositfiles.com/files/152160...part3.rar.html
QPW:
http://depositfiles.com/en/files/295897

Quickplay v2.0:
http://up-file.com/download/e699b073...y-2.0.zip.html
QPW:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QB07T5IM
or http://www.megaupload.com/?d=77K1YBL9

Quickplay v1.2:
http://depositfiles.com/en/files/318013

Quickplay v1.0:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QVE3S9PU

Quickplay for DV1000:
http://depositfiles.com/en/files/318048

I posted this elsewhere and got no reply but i think maybe this thread is more appropriate. Does anyone know if its possible to get USB speakers to work with quickplay direct? They work fine in quickplay and everything when windows is running, but when i start quickplay without booting windows it only uses the onboard audio.

Hi all,

I'm not sure this is the right place to ask, but...

I've been assembling a new HTPC and I was wondering wether it is possible to install QPlay (any version) or any similar software in a platform different from HP Laptops and allow me to watch DVD's without having to fully boot the machine into Windows MCE.

Thanks and regards

JasonDv6000 - If you look back a few pages in this thread (I think), you will see that someone posted how they were able to load a DIVX driver, by doing some trickery. Theoretically you could try something similar and just might get it to work. However, chances of screwing up the load are very high, so try at your own risk!

cktc - I'm not sure what you really want to accomplish, but consider this - Quickplay 2.x is Windows XP Embedded, which is essentially WinXP stripped down to the essentials so that it boots faster and has less chances for the user to muck it up. Most HTPC builders just do the same thing themselves by stripping out unneccessary things and either using MCE or plain XP with a front-end (of which there are a lot to choose). If you look over at hometheaterforum you can find the latest and greatest front-end users I'm sure. If you don't want an HTPC but just QP functionality on a non-HP laptop then you still need another program since QP has only certain HP drivers builtin and no easy way to add more.

This is an old story but still relevant - http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1376545,00.asp

this post was of no hep this thread, and it contained an email that could possibly be crawled.
therefore i have change it to this.

Does anyone know if its actually possible to access the quickplay partition? I know it has a drivers folder like windows.. It has to, since it must have audio and video drivers plus the driver for my wireless usb mouse. if i could just get in there and copy one file... (usbaudio.sys.) i think is the driver for usb speakers.

I cannot boot up QuickPlay without Windows booting up. When I press the QP or DVD button when my DV2123 is off it just simply loads windows as usual. Does anyone know why this could be occuring?

Yea, you don't have quickplay.... :P ... :S ...


anyone got an answer to my post that's 3 up? ^^^ :O

Hi guys!!
I have a DV9000T that came with QuickPlay 2.3.
When I reinstall the machine, I forgot to save the partitions.
Now, I'm trying to install again the QuickPlay Direct 2.3 in my laptop.
But, when I try to install, I get always the same error code : -2147418113
I already followed all the guides here, but none worked for me.
My configuration is the following below:
Patition 1 - C: ( Windows XP )
Rest of the disk - Unllocated

I already try with QuickPlay 2.1 and 2.3, that I download here in the post.
Somebody can help me??

Thanks a lot!
Glauber

PS: Sorry about the english ( I'm a brazilian guy )

You have some how re-writen the MBR - Master Boot Record, that will go to the QP partition when you press the media keys.

Only way to fix this is to remove QP and then reload from scratch so that QP writes the correct MBR

Wow, just want to thank everyone like AmigaDude and DeltaBoy and countless others for doing HPs job and helping me legitimately get Quickplay 2.3 back on my dv2050. I got pretty much everything working except for the strangest little thing. I press the quicklaunch button when the computer's off and everything starts up just fine. QP will then play my music and DVDs, etc, but it won't do so at a volume greater than 10. I can cycle between 0 and 10, and that's it. This problem doesn't occur in the Windows part of QP.

I originally installed the Windows part first, then the Direct portion, and this happened. So I re-installed the Quicklaunch drivers which I had originally installed before everything else, but the problem persisted. So I deleted the Direct partition and re-installed it, and the same thing occurs.

Has anyone else experienced this? Thanks again, you haven't any idea how much I appreciate it.

Strange .. I just retried my DV1000 and it goes in increments of 10, from 0 to 100.

- Do the Volume Bars increment past the first one?
- Can you increase past 10 by clicking the mouse on the speaker icons, instead of the volume keys?

FYI - The QP Direct is a self-contained install so it has NO relationship with anything else you do or don't install. So, QP Windows and Quicklaunch have nothing to do with it.