Hi, anyone can tell me how to get the quickplay installed into windows? i tried to install qpw into my compaq V3000, but it just keep on install dvdplay instead

Partitioning your drive. I keep separate partitions for Windows OS/applications AND my data files/music/pictures, etc. This makes backups easier. If you decide to maintain a single partition, simply follow the SINGLE partition method.

Before you begin, while you still have a working Windows system, download the drivers for your model for the version of Windows you will be INSTALLING directly from HP. Start here. (I have a Pavilion dv8210us, so type “Pavilion dv8210us” and then select Vista or XP for the necessary drivers.) Then save them to a CD or USB drive.


1. Three Partition Setup (My hard drive is 80GB. So I split it 30GB - 48GB - 1GB)
Windows OS and programs partition [≈30GB is good]
Data partition [≈48GB]
QuickPlay direct partition [must equal 1028MB] MUST BE THE LAST PARTITION!

Insert the Vista or XP OS bootable disk:
At the drive configuration setup, delete all existing partitions. Confirm as necessary. Under XP, select CREATE. Make one drive ≈30GB for Windows, CREATE another partition of ≈48GB for Data, CREATE another partition of EXACTLY 1028MB. (THIS MUST BE THE VERY LAST PARTITION ON THE DRIVE. All partitions must be primary!) Under Vista, pick CUSTOM for drive setup. DO NOT FORMAT THIS DRIVE (Vista only). Leave it in RAW format.

1a. Single Partition Setup (My hard drive is 80GB. So split it 78GB - 1GB)
Windows OS and applications partition [78GB]
QuickPlay direct partition [must equal 1028MB] MUST BE THE LAST PARTITION!

Insert the Vista or XP OS bootable disk.
At the drive configuration setup, delete all existing partitions. Confirm as necessary. Under XP, select CREATE. Make one drive ≈78GB for Windows/data, CREATE another partition of EXACTLY 1028MB. (THIS MUST BE THE VERY LAST PARTITION ON THE DRIVE. All partitions must be primary!) Under Vista, pick CUSTOM for drive setup. DO NOT FORMAT THIS DRIVE (Vista only). Leave it in RAW format.

2. Once the selected partition setup is complete, let Windows finish installation. Once complete, install any drivers necessary to get your system running. (Especially NIC or wireless.) Reboot as necessary when specified. At this point, Windows may inform you there is an unformatted drive and ask if you want to format it. Ignore this. Right click on MY COMPUTER and select MANAGE. Select DISK MANAGEMENT. If you created a data partition, find it and QUICK format it, then allow Windows to assign it a drive letter. Next, find the small 1028MB partition. Create a partition, assign it the drive letter X: and but DO NOT FORMAT IT! Exit DISK MANAGEMENT.

At this point, you should have a working connection to the internet. Now open your browser and download HPQPDP.rar or HPQPDP.zip from http://www.asifism.com/ to your DESKTOP. For rar archives, you will need to download another program to extract the contents. WinRAR is common shareware. Google it.

3. Extract whichever HPQPDP you downloaded and drop the resulting HPQPDP folder into your C:\SwSetup\ folder.

4. Double click on MY COMPUTER/COMPUTER, double click on C:\Local Drive. You should see the SwSetup folder. Open the HPQPDP folder and run setup.exe

5. Wait for the ENTIRE installation process finish. Just let it complete without interruption.

6. After installation is completed, REBOOT your computer.

7. Your computer will boot into the newly created Quickplay partition. Allow system to perform the installation of the QuickPlay Direct OS. Currently, this is an Embedded Version of Windows XP. DO NOT INTERRUPT THE INSTALLATION. Once complete, shut down the system.

8. Boot into your PRIMARY Windows installation.

For those installing any version of Windows XP:
Look for the QPW folder in C:\SwSetup and install quickplay (for Windows) from that folder. This is the actual Quickplay installation for use INSIDE Windows. The extracted QPW folder will contain Quickplay for Windows version 2.3. You can download the XP drivers for the buttons from the HP site from above.

For those installing any version of Windows Vista:
You need to download Quickplay 3.0 from http://www.asifism.com/ and extract it to your desktop. Run the setup.exe. Contained in the Quickplay3.0.rar archive, are the Vista drivers for your buttons as well. Run that setup and you will have control over your buttons again in Vista.

9. Insert a DVD in the drive, then shut down the laptop. Now hit the Quickplay button. If done correctly, you will boot into QuickPlay Direct and can access your Media features.


NOTE: This collected procedure is the result of personal trial and error AND information gathered on the internet. After searching endlessly, I got this to work under clean installs of XP and Vista.


Rob

Hi, actually i asking othe quickplay on windows... since you are saying quickplay direct

I also tried to install quickplay direct on my V3000, all process going normally until the first boot to media partition, after windows screen it went to black screen for long time and auto restart, of course the installiation did not complete... I cannot enter that partition anymore. Even i change my boot.ini to get in, I receive a blue screen and auto reboot.

did you try to install on an existing windows installation? sounds like there are issues with your boot disk settings. what version of windows are you running? did you create the correct type AND size partition for quickplay? what procedure did you follow?


user001

Hi,
Thanks for your reply+pm, i list my procudure here for quickplay direct:
before start, i am using XP MCE and only 1 partition 74 GB and 1028MB for quickplay on compaq V3000 series
1: creat 1028MB partition
2: assign it X:\
3: install using file from www.asifism.com
4: installiation complete, restart
5: booted into media partition, auto restart(after black screen)<-- problem is here
6: no longer able to get into media parition
6.1: so change the boot.ini to get into the second(media) partition
7: same, black screen and restart
8:?? help!!!


For quickplay:
I also tried to install quickplay windows, but it just install DVDplay.... Anything i need to change?

First of all "hello to everybody, I'm the newbee to the forum".

After reading nearly the entire thread I still have the problem that I can't install HPQPDP 2.3 on my Pavilion 6000 with WinXPpro.

Installation always aborts at 5% with the error message "Installation terminated due to partition allocation failure". No matter if in normal or safe mode.

I do have an unformatted primary part at the end of the HD with right size and driveletter X: (the setup creates this partition automatically if one has an unassigned partition bigger than 1GB at the end of the drive). But still this error...

Any ideas?

Thank you and greetings from Bavaria (Germany)
Schmidl

EDIT: In the meantime I found the solution myself :

The problem was that I had, besides the Windows partition C:, four others on the disk (Swap, Programs, Data and Media). After deleting these four and leaving only C: and the rest as one unassigned primary partition HPQPDP installed properly Thanks, HP

I Have Finally Installed
The Quickplay Direct 2.3
On Vista

And Make It Boot
Directly ( Not After Loading Windows )

But I Can't Play Any Audio
Because The Driver Of The Audio
Device Isn't Installed

while Installing The QPD It Shows Errors
That It Cannot Install The Audio Device Driver

So, Could Any One Help Me
Im Using HP Pavilion Dv2297ea


And Can You Upload

1- STODD.dll
2- STFiles.dll


And i Will Be Grateful For
Any Help

Can somebody please post a link to download v2.3? It doesn't seem to be available. Thanks!

I've been trying for about 10 hours straight to upgrade from QuickPlay Direct 1.x to 3.2. I am on WinXP on an HP Pavilion dv8120. Following the info in this thread, I have gotten as far as installing the partition. My system even boots into QuickPlay for its round of configuring the audio/video drivers; then I get booted back into XP.

This is where I am now officially stuck. QuickPlay is installed, but no combination of Media key(s) and/or power button will boot me into it on power-up. The best I have been able to get is by adding an entry to my primary XP's boot.ini that points to the QuickPlay partition, but attempting to boot into it does not work (someone previously in this thread mentioned that the partition has to be made the primary active bootable partition, which I have been unable to make happen).

I would imagine that the media keys magic involves marking the QuickPlay partition as active. Is there a BIOS version for Pavilion 8120s I can install to get the proper functionality out of my media keys? I am running bios version F.33, which is apparently the newest for my system (I think. Right?). I am so close I can taste sweet victory, but I am worried about this last battle.

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?