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QUICKPLAY DIRECT - What's Wrong with COMPAQ PRESARIO V3000 Series?

Many thanks to all the contributors in this forum.
But I'm pleading if there is anyone who can help us to succeed in configuring the Quickplay for COMPAQ PRESARIO V3000 Series pls. do it urgently.
Previously, i'v read a thread about SATA drives, after a lot of struggle I reach the stage where quickplay partition will begin to log into windows, but a second after it will just crashed into the the Blue Screen. The thread I read where someone propose setting some SATA settings in the system BIOS, however, this is not the case in my COMPAQ PRESARIO V3000 Series because BIOS does'nt indicate any Device Configuration where u can set the SATA native mode. I also noticed that SATA native mode activation requires use of Intel Chipset Drivers for the IDE/ATAPI whatever, Compaq Presario V3000 uses AMD Processor with NVidia chipset. In short all my effort ended there with nothing more to doo.........

Pls could any one help?
thanks

Is there any way to configure COMPAQ PRESARIO V3000 Series for QUICKPLAY DIRECT?

Many thanks to all the contributors in this forum.
But I'm pleading if there is anyone who can help us to succeed in configuring the Quickplay for COMPAQ PRESARIO V3000 Series pls. do it urgently
I'v read your thread about SATA drives, after a lot of struggle I reach the stage where quickplay partition will begin to log into windows, but a second after it will just crashed into the the Blue Screen. However, the problem i faced here is that COMPAQ PRESARIO V3000 Series BIOS does'nt indicate any Device Configuration where u can set the SATA native mode. I also noticed that SATA native mode activation requires use of Intel Chipset Drivers for the IDE/ATAPI whatever, Compaq Presario V3000 uses AMD Processor with NVidia chipset. In short all my effort ended there with nothing more to doo.........

Is there any solution to this problem????? Thanks and I believe someone can help me out here.

Pls could any one help?

hello guys:

im having a probelm after downloading the QP,in the beginning of installation an error message appeared

" QuickPlaycan only be Installed in QuickPlay-enabled machine "
may i have any help from u please .... i'll be thankful

QuickPlay Direct on a V3000

Ok. I'm only new to this whole Quickplay direct thing. Part of me regrets blowing out the XP Home installation that came w/ my Compaq Presario V3000 laptop. But the good news is, b4 I formatted the laptop, I backed up my swsetup folder and have my original c:\swsetup\hpqpd folder. It's about 800 megs. I'm willing to RAR it up and put it on one of my Linux servers sitting on a 10mbps connection, if it gets too slow, I can put it on a few more servers, some with 10mbps and some with 100mbps. I don't see what's the big deal about offering it to people who have HP/Compaq laptops.

Before I upload it though, I need help myself. It's quite simple really, I created the 1024mb partition at the end of the drive, didn't format it as NTFS, assigned it Drive letter X, and installed QuickPlay direct. It installs fine within Windows, then reboots the computer. Computer boots up into the QuickPlay partition, and it does it's own thing, detecting my video card, sound card, etc. and that goes through smoothly as well. Then it reboots. Now it boots back into my regular Windows. Ok, shutdown the laptop, try the QuickPlay button, and it still boots into my regular Windows, sigh, so close. So there is no way for me to get back into quickplay direct, I've read through the forums and understand modifying my boot.ini will be useless. So how do I make it active? I tried that stupid program on HP's website, the one to make the quickplay boot thing work again, but executing their exe only brings up a windows error about doing it via the control panel or something. Useless. So if somebody can help me get this working, I'll release the software to anybody who asks. I may not want to put a direct link here. Least not for now.


Some extra info, if you don't like long posts, you can skip this section. First off, I have no idea what version of QuickPlay Direct shipped w/ my laptop. I have the directory, but looking through the ini's and getting the properties of the executables doesn't really tell me what version it is. I thought at one point it was QuickPlay 2.1, but apparently the only versions of QuickPlay direct are 2.0 and 2.3; Optimally I'd like 2.3, but if this is 2.0, whatever, it's what shipped w/ my laptop and I know it to work 100% with my laptop. Nothing crazy about SATA drivers and sound not working, only playing DVD's, etc.


What I want to know more about is how that QuickPlay button actually works. Does it tell the BIOS to set the secondary partition active? Then if you boot off the regular power button, the first partition is automatically reset to active by the BIOS?

During some... crazy... experimentation, I used Acronis TrueImage. So I created the x:\ as 1024, unformatted, installed the QuickPlay Direct. Then, when it went to reboot my laptop, I booted off TrueImage and made a complete image of my hard drive, including the MBR. Then, I let it boot into QuickPlay Direct, detect the video/sound/etc. and then let it reboot back into regular windows. Of course the quickplay button won't get me back into that stupid partition. So, I booted off TrueImage, and restored the MBR. Now when I boot up, I get into QuickPlay Direct :-) However, the snag is, I can't get back into regular Windows! Normal boots, and boots via the QuickPlay button, bring me into QuickPlay direct all the time. So I booted off a linux cd and noticed that the secondary partition was the only one marked as Bootable. So I untag it as bootable, and tag the first partition (my main windows) as bootable, and reboot. No luck, still goes into QuickPlay direct. When I reboot off the Linux CD, I find that the 1st partition is no longer tagged as bootable and the 2nd one is. The MBR keeps undoing what I'm doing. Anyways, kind of frustrating. I'll have to delete the QuickPlay Direct partition, boot off my XP cd and run the fixmbr and fixboot commands. Should fix it. But I am learning more about the internals of QuickPlay Direct and partitions.

What I find interesting is that if the 2nd partition, the quickplay direct partition, is marked active and bootable, it boots into QuickPlay direct. I was thinking about using something like Partition Magic's PQBoot, if I couldn't get that quickplay button to work. PQBoot allows you to select different partitions to boot off of at boot time. So I should in theory be presented w/ a PQBoot menu on bootup, asking which partition I want to boot. I could then select the 1st partition and boot regular Windows, or the 2nd partition and boot QuickPlay Direct. Kind of a manual way around that button. Then other thoughts occur, why does it have to be QuickPlay Direct in that partition, eventually I'd think about one of those really small Linux distro's they make for USB sticks, that will boot up and allow you to play DVD's, view images, play music, etc. and it does it under 20 megs, which is smaller than QuickPlay direct and it boots up quicker. Since QuickPlay direct is being phased out, if I could get that stupid button working right, I could put a different specialized OS in that 2nd partition. I'd like to be able to hit the QuickPlay button and boot into a stripped down Linux DVD player, or something like that.; could even play Divx's mp3's mp4's, avi's, etc. But that's later on down the line.

For now I just want my QuickPlay Direct to work via that stupid button. I'm like 90% there. Is it the BIOS version? I'm running the latest BIOS for the V3019US laptop, F.34; I dislike the idea of downgrading BIOS's just to make a button work. I wonder what bug fixes I'll lose. The laptop is about 1 year old, and shipped w/ XP Home installed originally. I tried Vista on this laptop a month ago and almost killed myself, Vista sucks, it's slow, it's crappy, the interface is more confusing, QuickPlay Direct won't work on it, etc. so I formatted the whole damn thing and put a clean install of Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 on it. I was going to buy XP Pro but decided if I'm bound to run XP, minus well buy/run the latest release of XP. Any help please.

Hi there, I felt i'v to congratulate u for having successfully restore ur quickplay direct on V3000 machine, In an effort to fix your problem, here is a copy of my C: drive's boot.ini file, for sure it can help u choose from any of the partitions u may like to boot from. I'd like to know if your Notebook is American model or NOT. Mine is a Chinese model also bought it last year, but I accidently lost all the recovery partition. Right now I tried both Quickply 2.0 and 2.3 but after install the machine fails to reboot in to quickplay partition for completing the rest of the installation. In fact I'v to use a registry fix before the machine allow me to begin the quickplay setup.

For your booting problem I recomend you try setting ur boot.ini file way...

**********************************************************************************
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Embedded" /fastdetect /maxmem=256
***************************************************************************

About the version of your QPD, I guess is version 1.x, as a check, you can try booting into the quickplay partition if it begin by showing a Windows Logo at the startup then it is Version 2.x ELSE It is a Linux Based which is Version 1.x.

By the way, I'm FLEEDING to you to please post us a link where we can download your copy of QPD quickplay direct, i think it is the only version that can fit our kind of machine (V3000).

Thank you in advance, wishing u more enjoyement from your wonderful V3000 PC.

Hope to see ur reply soon.....PLEASE HELP US....

Well I've sort of figured it out, but I'm not happy about it. First off, I've learned that I have QuickPlay Direct 2.1. I'd kind of like to try 2.3, but I suspect that 2.1 was 'designed' for this particular series of laptop. The problems I read about, regarding SATA hard drives and/or sound not working, I suspect it has to do with using the wrong version of QuickPlay on the wrong hardware. So as much as I'd like to try 2.3, I suspect that 2.1 will work better. I may try 2.3 later on down the line, but 2.1 works fine on my laptop, kind of. btw... I have an American version, course it's all made in China :-)

I've determined the problem. It's the damn BIOS. I'm running F.34; I downgraded to F.13 (the next release was F.22 and the notes say they 'added support for Vista' which since I know QuickPlay Direct doesn't work in Vista, I suspected HP/Compaq changed the way the button would work), re-ran the installation in Windows, let it reboot into QuickPlay, let it detect my hardware, let it reboot me into regular windows. Then I shut down and hit the quickplay button. This time, it brought me into QuickPlay. I was happy and upset at the same time. Great, now it works, but I have to use a BIOS 3 versions old. I tried to upgrade from F.13 to F.22, the next one up, to see how far I could get b4 the button didn't work, and it didn't even work with F.22; So now it appears that if I want QuickPlay Direct to work, I have to stay on F.13, which I'm not happy about.

I'm currently investigating my other options, such as using PQBoot or some other boot loader to switch between active/primary partitions. I may have to be content w/ when my laptop first turns on, it presents me w/ a quick Menu about regular Windows or QuickPlay Direct. I may have to ignore that stupid button.

I'm going to try your boot.ini trick, I keep reading that it'll give me a BSOD, but I've never actually tried it, maybe I'll get lucky.


Anyways, if you have a V3000, I'd recommend trying QuickPlay Direct 2.1, trying to run 2.3 may be the problem. I can get you my copy, send me a private message and I'll get you a link where u can d/l it.

I'm Glad for Your Quick Response

Thank you very much once again for notifying me about the BIOS issue, I also upgraded my BIOS from F.13 to F.34 all in search to get quickplay works. I did that because my quickplay button does'nt respond when the computer is powered off even after installing quickplay 2.0 or 2.3.

In short I know realise all the trick, and I'm personally giving my thanks to you.

Here is my email address through which you can always reach me (habash1600@yahoo.com)
I'd like to also have your personal email address.

I appereciate your effort towards helping us. Thanks alot

BINGO! Forget booting off that quickplay button, the latest BIOS changes the way that button works (to make it 'vista' compatible, which doesn't support QuickPlay Direct).

Since I wanted to run the latest BIOS, I decided I'd have to find a new way into QuickPlay Direct 2.1; I've succeeded in booting QuickPlay via Windows XP's boot menu.

Step 1: Modify your boot.ini to something similar to mine:

-----
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="MS Windows XP MCE 2005" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="HP QuickPlay 2.1" /fastdetect /maxmem=256
-----

But naturally, when you try to use that 2nd boot option, you get a BSOD as it's booting that version of Windows.

Step 2: Download the 'Restoring HP QuickPlay Boot' file (sp34444.exe) from HP's support website and attempt to install it. If your like me, you'll get some kind of error about the control panel, ignore it. Now load up a command prompt (start/run/cmd) and go to c:\swsetup\sp3444 and run 'mbrinst.exe /ini mbr.ini' This will bring up a nice little window, now I'm not 100% sure what I'm doing in here, but I do know what options I've selected to make it work. On my laptop, I've deleted the HP Recovery partition, it'd only restore XP Home which I have no intention of going back to, so I only really have 2 partitions, the main one, and the HP QuickPlay partition, no recovery. So I left 'none' checked under Force Start, under 'Recovery Partition' I selected 'Is part of user Partition' left the Timeout at 1, Left the QPlay option checked, and under "Partition Table" I clicked on "User part first" (I think this is the most important part), then clicked on Install.

Step 3: I booted off a Linux CD (in my case, a Gentoo LiveCD), and used 'fdisk /dev/sda' to set both partitions to Bootable, and I set them both as type 07, which is NTFS. So now that QuickPlay partition is no longer hidden, and it's toggled as bootable, just like the regular windows partition. Both are identical now.

So I go to reboot, and the Windows XP menu is displayed. I selected the HP QuickPlay option from the XP menu, and sure enough, it booted the QuickPlay Mini-Windows w/o any BSOD's. I think the BSOD's and hal.dll problem is due to the partition type (being hidden) and it not being set bootable. I kept setting it unhidden/ntfs and setting it bootable, but whenever I tried booting off of it, it'd blue screen and it'd also re-hide itself and re-unset itself bootable. I figured out Step 2 above (using mbrinst.exe) kept it from re-making itself hidden and not-bootable.

So now, when I boot up, I get the option of my Regular Windows MCE, or my HP QuickPlay. Now I've got the latest BIOS adnd I'll still get the battery-saving performance that I wanted out of QuickPlay Direct in the first place. I just won't be able to use that button, but it's a minor inconvenience.


So to recap my findings, if you want that button to work, you'll have to use BIOS F.13 or older, nothing newer. Then create that blank/unformatted partition at the end, install QuickPlay, let it do its thing, etc. then in theory that button will work.

If you want the latest BIOS, F.22 or newer, you'll have to find another way into QuickPlay Direct, which I've done by setting the QuickPlay Direct partition as NTFS (not that hidden/unknown/stealth partition type) and setting it as bootable just like the primary partition. Then you can modify your boot.ini to boot off the QuickPlay partition. You know, if you can dual boot Vista and XP, I've seen where you can add XP into Vista's boot menu, I imagine you can use this same trick. Just add the QuickPlay option to the boot.ini of vista, do that mbrinst.exe thing, set the partition as NTFS and bootable (have to use linux's fdisk) and bingo, it should work.

Thanks go to linusl's post on page 42 of this forum/thread. His post got me 90% there. hxxp://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?postid=2530532#post2530532

I'll definately try this option, though i don't have the linux boot cd but i can change the quickplay partition to an active partition from the windows Disk Management. I wish to be successfull this time around.

Remember i'll still appereciate the link to download Quickplay 2.1
my mail box is habash1600@yahoo.com

Catch up soon...

I don't think Windows little disk management thing will be enough. You have to change the partition type as well, and set it bootable. You'd be better off downloading a knoppix or gentoo or CentOS (or any other distro's livecd/install cd. Most of them will let you run regular linux commands b4 the installation. I know that knoppix/centos/gentoo will definately let you run fdisk w/o any problems and w/o forcing you to install linux. You have to do:

fdisk /dev/sda
p
t
2
07
a
2
w
q

p will print out the current partition table. If you're like me, you'll have 2 partitions, 1 big one and 1 little one.

t will set the type, it will ask for which partition, I selectd '2' for the 2nd partition, the QuickPlay partition. Enter type 07.

a will toggle a partition bootable, I selected partition 2 (my QuickPlay partition).

w will write the partition table to disk.

q will quit.

Then just reboot. I'll email you shortly a link for the software. Gotta rar it up and then upload it to one of my servers. Remember it's only QuickPlay 2.1, not 2.3, but it seems to be what is suited to the V3000 series. It detects all my hardware perfectly and does what it's supposed to do.

Hi Deon,
I'm here fowarding to u my sincere apperciation, I'v already got the stuff down.
Be assured of the safety of your systems. no leaks... In fact you can take it off now...
Thanks very much once again.

Hi deon,
It is sad to inform you that after following all the elaborated detailed procedure u provided, my notebook fail to pick up and complete the installation after reboot. Even after all partition management via knoppix the QPD partition still crashes into a BSoD.
I guess the Reason is mainly because my notebook is a chinese model while yours is American, It's model no. is V3142AU and shipped with AMD Turion X2 Processor not Intel which i think is also part of the reasons for this failure. I notice while QPD installation is running it installs many supports for Intel based applications. my PC is AMD not Intel. Oh my God!

I don't know what to do now, in fact I lost all hope and I know that I have to give up and Surrender.

Before then, I'd like to thank all the contributors to this forum and specifically U Bingo.

Thank you All.

Hi deon,
It is sad to inform you that after following all the elaborated detailed procedure u provided, my notebook fail to pick up and complete the installation after reboot. Even after all partition management via knoppix the QPD partition still crashes into a BSoD.
I guess the Reason is mainly because my notebook is a chinese model while yours is American, It's model no. is V3142AU and shipped with AMD Turion X2 Processor not Intel which i think is also part of the reasons for this failure. I notice while QPD installation is running it installs many supports for Intel based applications. my PC is AMD not Intel. Oh my God!

I don't know what to do now, in fact I lost all hope and I know that I have to give up and Surrender.

Before then, I'd like to thank all the contributors to this forum and specifically U Bingo.

Thank you All.

This is really wonderful thrread, i really found it helpful, by the way could u please send me a link to download that QPD 1.x, My email address is habash1600@yahoo.com.
Thanks in advance, remember I'll really appereciate ur response.
catch up soooooon.......

Hello, I just got a new HP DV 2617us with pre-installed vista home premium. Unfortunately, it did not come with HPQPDP folder in SWSETUP. I want to load QuickPlay 2.3 Direct. Is there any place I can get HPQPDP folder as zip, rar or torrent? The megaupload/rapidshare/depositfile links are long dead. I am waiting for access-key for download on the asifism.com site. Thanks in advance!

Congrats for ur new DV series notebook, but i want u to know that quickplay 2.3 direct is windows XP based, so if u really like to enjoy it u've to downgrade from Vista to XP. I personally don't have a server to upload it for u now, yet I can help u in this way:

Write a kind of private email to this guy and request him for a link to donwload the QPD 2.3 file. I believe he'll help u with it.

glitch@glitchsys.com

Good luck!

OK, a kind soul let me download HPQPDP folder. However when I follow installation steps, once the C:\SWSETUP\HPQPDP\Setup.exe installation completes and vista reboots, it puts me in system recovery mode. Anyone else saw this or has any idea how to fix this, please let me know. Thanks!

Hey guys, i'm in the process of reformating my dv2000t. I've been on the lookout for quickplay version 2. I cannot find it anywhere.. can someone on the forums.. give me a direction to go? Thanks for such a sweet thread!

much appreciated, thanks!
my email addy is
anguyennn@gmail.com

Has anyone been able to get this working on an Intel-based dv9500? I've attempted it a couple of times, and I always end up with the blue screen.

There's no option to disable the SATA in any of the BIOs versions that I can install; is there another BIOS (maybe for an Intel-based dv9000) that I can use that won't brick the motherboard?

I picked up this notebook with the intention of using QuickPlay Direct on it fairly often to keep the kids occupied; I'd rather they not boot the machine up completely to watch a movie. I had no idea that this didn't work on Vista; the buttons were still there and HP didn't go out of their way to advertise that the feature had been hobbled.

I'm pretty sure that the hardware is completely compatable, but I'm hesitant to go to extreme means that may render it inoperable.

If this is a SATA driver issue, is there any way to "slipstream" the SATA drivers into the QuickPlay Direct partition without having to boot into it first? Somthing as simple as copying drivers into the correct location and adding some pointer?

anyone please?? I desperately need quickplay version 2...