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.

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!

Hello Stimey,
I'v been following all the way down this Thread just following your postings keeping track of your progress.........(Amazing).
Right now I'v ended all the thread but I could'nt figure out what was your status at the end. Please my sysmtem is exactly similar to your V3000 Presario non-American Model. I just want to know whether if you were able to succeed in getting the QPD up and running.

Pleassssssssssssssseeeeeeee Reply me as soon as right now you may be my last hope now.
Thanks in advance.

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.

I thought I'd jump in at this point...

I found this thread accidentally, and since then, been trying to figure out how to make QP work on my brand new V6000 Presario. I'm not sure wether it's even supposed to work on this model(or the european version at least).....but with the help of you Gurus I finally got it installed.
That registry modification made the difference. The only thing is, that when I try to boot to QP, it gives me the BSOD that Stimey has mentioned also.
When I boot my computer normally, it goes to XP as supposed.

AmigaDude.....you mentioned something about SATA disk causing the problem.....I've got on of those.

So, I'll just continue reading your posts in hope for solution....

Yep, i think i got a sata hd in this one.
So time to put in some sata support on the QP partion somehow.
Another task to kill some spare time
I wonder if i can just bung the drivers from the normal xp into the drivercache folder or something.
Will give it a try, we're getting closer and closer.

Well, according to this thread -> http://www.notebookforums.com/thread177332.html , it looks like QP2.3 is out for the DV200t. Since this machine has a SATA drive, it implies that QP2.3 has SATA support builtin. You might want to try coaxing someone to upload QP2.3 instead of wasting time trying to trick Embedded to do anything. (I've been trying and it's not easy...)

Now that I think about it, almost any of the newer machines (2000t, 6000t, 9000t, etc..) have SATA drives and should come with QP2.3 so.....

Ah, let's hope someone with QP2.3 installations file can and will upload them :P

I've been gone for quite some time and there's already a QuickPlay 2.3 ? Shows you how long I've been gone. From what I could find out about HP QuickPlay 2.3, it enables HD content to be played on the program and that it's available with Pavilion dv2000, dv6100 and the dv9100.

Scirwode

Where would one upload the QuickPlay 2.3 installation files?

If you can archive them into multiple files no larger than 250Mb, then http://www.depositfiles.com is an option that worked for me recently. Personally, I still use WinZip but any archive tool should work.

Anxiously awaiting something else to play with (QP2.3 )...