HP's QuickPlay v2.0 - Page 42

Ok, so I did find a new version of my BIOS (F.54). Flashed it, but does not change my situation.

hi every i am quite new to this forum.from last seven eight days i am shrugging in installing quick play 2.3 in my dv 2000t laptop.first i was getting component move error then as reading all 55 pages(almost ....) i tried to name my last partition as x install hpqpw and when it ask to reboot i checked boot.ini files in c and quick play drive.
my hardisk has two partion c and d and qick play.
boot.ini of c is
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

and boot.ini of quick play is

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS
but as i restarted laptop black screen comes with cursor blinking first i thought it is installation process but after half an hour i restart my laptop and now i am stuck on that screen .i tried to repair xp but even then i am on that screen ..what shuld i do ..any help will be appreciated.
thanx

Hello,

I just bought a dv6275ea laptop preinstalled with Vista (and QP3) and as I decided to downgrade to Windows XP, it took a lot of phonecalls, HP livechat support etc to figure out I were on my own. Until I found this forum.
Thanks to links provided earlier I now have QP2.3 (Windows) up running and I believe 2.0 Direct.
However, due to the lack of audio drivers I didn't have any sound on my DVD movies etc. After playing a bit with different tools I managed to "hack" the QP2 Direct installation, install my audio drivers and now everything is working like a charm!
Would not have been possible without all of you people in this thread. THANK YOU!
I will try monitor this thread for some time and give any help I can.

Just for the record, if not stated elsewhere, QP 2.0 Direct is NOT Linux at all, but a Windows XP Embedded on some kind of "hidden" NTFS partition.
With GParted Live CD I were able to mount the partition and do the changes there to gain access to the "device manager" so I could install my audio drivers.

Is there a way to watch divx/xvid movies with subtitles in Directplay mode? (HP Pavilion dv5156ea, Directplay 2.3 with Vista ultimate quickplay 3.2)

I hope this thread is stil looked upon and updated. I have followed the steps in this thread multiple times and every single time it results in the same problem all of which I have to reinstall windows vista to fix it.

I own a Pavilion DV2550SE that I did a fresh install of vista on, set aside a partition at the end of my drive and started the install of the HP Quickplay Direct 2.3. It finishes the install reboots my system and then gives me the windows XP boot screen. Immediately after seeing the windows xp screen my computer goes to a BSOD. Thats all it ever does.

I saw a thread earlier about a SATA problem which could cause that.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

I know this isn't solving your problem, but I too worked hard to get Quickplay Direct working on my DV9207. I haven't really used it since. I find that with the undervolting available in both XP and Vista through the use of RM Clock, I get better battery life than Quickplay Direct could begin to offer.

I also really like Media Center in Vista, but that's another story. BTW, my remote works with Media Center in Vista. That's schweeet!

Love this laptop!

Just my 2 cents.

pleas help to guid me

i also found the problem like you,
could you please tell me how to update the audio driver in quickplay partition with Gparted.......

plzzz, anyone, help me - at least tell me if there's a way to watch divx/xvid movies with subtitles in Directplay mode? (HP Pavilion dv5156ea, Directplay 2.3 with Vista ultimate quickplay 3.2)

can anyone please uploud data3.cab of QPD 2.3, asfism don,t have any validy key, a jusd need that file.

i have a DV8100us and i can install quickplay.Well let me say that again. I have the quickplay retore that came with the pc and it installs but it will not run. I have looked over the furms for 10 days now and i downlaoded 20.23. and 30 and i get the error quick must be installed on a enabled machine.some one pleae help me!!!!!!!! FYI i never had quickplay to work

All,

This forum on quickplay is great and I appreciate the knowledge being shared. I too am downgrading a brand new HP dv6500 from Vista to XP and I've gotten everything working except QPD. I have QP for windows... but like many others... finding the actual working install files has been the problem. The latest HP notebooks shipping with Vista no longer include the QPD installs in the SWSetup folder... so we're all stuck surfing the net trying to piece together a valid set of the last XP versions.

I've seen the uploaded versions in the earlier thread posts. As well as the other posts commenting on the corrupt versions of the 9-part rar (that you have to wait forever to get from megaupload... or shell out your clams). Asif's web page gives hope... but he seems to limit the download to those with a reg code he posts to his web page but doesn't seem to work.

If someone has a valid copy of the latest 2.3 install... could you please... please... please... create a torrent and get the torrent file outthere. With the amount of people floating in here... I'm sure it would spread like wildfire and not overtax anyone to share.

I'm not sure why getting this SW out there is such a hard problem. There are so many that need it... HP doesn't want to support it... but we obviously have the knowledge and power in this forum to make this work.

Ok... I'll get off my soap box now... but please... help out your fellow HP techies and let's get this SW posted where all can get it!

Everyone,
So, for the last week I have been trying in vain to get Quickplay Direct onto my brand new dv6500t (CTO Core 2 Duo w/Santa Rosa chipset). Alas, I believe I have run into the perverbial brick wall.

A little history:

QuickPlay is HPs home-grown media player. This was groundbreaking when it first arrived as it allowed users to play their DVDs and Music straight from buttons on the laptop chassis without booting Windows. Quickplay is broken into two pieces. Quickplay for Windows, and Quickplay Direct. Quickplay Direct is the version of the software that boots into its own OS from a seperate partition on your hard drive. In initial versions of QPD, this OS was a Linux derivitive. But, as of QPD2.0 and later, HPs software vendor switched to MS Windows Embedded. Quickplay for Window (QPW) is just that, a version of the software that runs within windows XP. This loads like any other media player application.

The newest HP Pavilion Laptops coming from HP with MS Windows Vista installed are hobbled in their implementation of QPD. Instead of loading the seperate MS Windows Embedded, the quickplay buttons above the laptop keyboard just act like the power button and boot up Vista and then start QPW once Vista is booted up. This is obviously not ideal for those that want to get to their music fast and without all the pretense of the entire OS.

So, for those that are industrious enough to tackle the inner workings of your computer. You can repartition your drives and do a clean XP install. That is exactly what I did... and using a number of good guides that are referenced on this board... I was quickly up and running with a clean XP install and all drivers loaded.

Now, on to installing QPD. Again, there are a number of good references on this... including this very forum. But, I did find one that seems like a treasure trove of all things quickplay: http://www.notebookforums.com/thread141817.html.
There are a myriad of things you must do, including creating a second primary partition at the end of your drive. Not to mention obtaining the QPD software. Since those with Vista installed at the factory do not have the QPD software in their SWSetup folder, they have to relay on finding it off the web. A good resource for that turns out to be this web site: http://www.asifism.com. Don't worry... he seems to update the keys every once in a while.

And now, the fun part... I have the software installed... a brand new partition containing MS Windows Embedded... and I must reboot to finish.

OH NO: ***STOP: 0x0000007B ... ...
Now what! Well... here's the perverbial wall. As some have mentioned on other posts... the lastest HP notebooks do not have a way to turn on native support for SATA drives via the BIOS. The XP Installation threads contain details on this, but basically in order to install XP... you have to slipstream the SATA drivers into the XP Install CD using a program called nLite.
Well.... The blue screen error 0x0000007B is detailed here on MS's website: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324103. Basically.... I think MS Windows embedded is running into the same problem that the XP installation CD does.... there is no native support for the SATA drive on the dv6500 laptop. So, when the OS attempts to boot... it craps out on actually reading the disk and thinks there's no hard disk (referred to around the board as getting a BSOD).

So, I'm looking to you tech people with more experience on XP and driver level implementation. Supposedly XP startup has some initial driver load during its boot process... the idea is that it loads the basic drivers to get the OS boot process started (hard disks, etc.)... and then the rest continues until you're at the login screen. My best guess is that XP embedded is exactly the same, and requires the dv6500 Intel SATA chipset drivers to be installed (much like they must be slipstreamed into the XP Install CD).

I can gain access to the partition containing the embedded OS to edit files or place new files on it. But, I need help on what to do to install the drivers into the XP Embedded OS so that it uses them on startup and can boot off the drive! This is not a drive partition or MBR issue as the boot process gets far enough down the line to get to the XP Startup screen (the one with the logo and the "working" bar at the bottom). Its at that point you get the blue screen.

Anyway... hope someone can help... or at least keeps anyone else with a dv6500t from killing themselves to get it installed when I don't think it will work without further investigation!

Thanks!

ok guysi fixedmy PROBLEM!!!!!!!! THE PROBLEM WAS THAT YOU CAN'T INSTALL QUICK WITH BIOS VER 54 ON A DV8110US. I DOWNGRADED THE BIOS AND INSTALLED IT FINE!!!!!!!

hi for all!
this is QP DirectPlay 2.3
data2.cab
data3.cab
all other files

hello friends
here is a latest torrent of hp quickplay 3.3
http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1284663/9018981/
or
http://hh5skktm4w34yl6kohy75.usercash.com

rodney and others,
Thanks for all that info!

You have relieved me as I was worried that my notebook for defective which of course it is but at least it is part of a population. I've had this dv6375 for about two months and I like it. Of course one reason I chose HP was for the QuickPlay buttons...

I am about to buy another notebook and think I might go with Dell (perhaps a 1520) because it looks like your fixes are way more then I want to get involved with. (computer dummy you know). Of course if HP would FIX the issue, I might reconsider.

What a bummer... another product that doesn't work as advertised!
BobCat

Here you can download HP's Quickplay 2.3 both versions

Quickplay Direct 2.3
Quickplay 2.3 For Windows

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1295906/4014570/

I'll seed for a while

Hi all,
I've just read 56 pages.I have a problem with my eyes now
Is there anyone able to use direct versions of quickplay(bootable ones not the windows applications) with dv4289ea?If there is, then what is the bios version?Also, can you explain the install procedure briefly please?
Do I need to install all the files from 1.2>1.3 to 2.3 direct?
Thanks...

Can't Install QuickPlay on Compaq V3000 Series! Help Pls!

Hi!

I have a Compaq V3000 Series and it has Quickplay hotkey. However it does not come with Quickplay Direct and Quick Play for windows. I managed to download those files from Asifism website.

This is what I have done so far to install QuickPlay

1. I did a fresh Windows Vista Home Premium Installation.
2. I created a new partition 1028Mb in size for QuickPlay. I didnt format it and leave it raw.
3. After Windows Installation, I changed the 1028Mb drive name to X:\ drive as suggested.
4. I copy HPQPDP folders which I downloaded earlier from Asifism website to C:\swsetup\
5. Now I try to run setup.exe in HPQPDP but an error message came out saying that my computer doesn't have QuickPlay hotkey.

I believe this is the similar problem to Stimey. Someone in this thread mentioned that the Compaq comouter could not install because it is not purchased north America. But it can overcome by creating a regedit to trick the computer to install HPQPDP. I think Stimey mentioned in the thread that I should create a Regedit file using the following codes:


But the downside is it will ruined your hard drive as claimed by a couple of users (somewhere in pg 35-36). Something about SATA error which I have no idea as it is too technical.

I am affraid to go thorugh those installation as it will ruin my hard drive. I am wondering are there any Compaq V3000 Series owners successfully install QuickPlay Direct. I have through 56 pages of this thread and didn't see anyone claim to install HPQPDP successfully.

I would be much appreicated if someone could guide me how to install the HPQPDP. I really want it to work.

Massive thanks to all the contributer.

can someone give me a link to the hpqpdp.rar files? none of the links i got from this thread has is.

Really need to get back quick play on my laptop