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HP QuickPlay to launch an alternative OS?

Discussion in 'HP' started by joppenheim, Feb 10, 2010.

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Hi all,

My HP Pavillion dv2680 entertainment notebook has a feature called QuickPlay which consists of a special button on the keyboard which, when pressed, will turn the notebook on and launch the media software HP QuickPlay as soon as its up and running.

My question is, is can this button be used to launch an alternative operating system?

This button has been designed for launching the notebook into a media player rather than a notebook. The operating system (Vista in my case) is receiving some form of notification that QuickPlay was requested, instead of a usual boot.

Such an option would mean a pre-Windows Vista boot loader to interpret the options during boot.

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Th3_uN1Qu3 Notebook Deity

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It's in the BIOS not in Windows. However once you uninstall QuickPlay the button will simply power up the computer the usual way. I don't think there's a way to run another OS using this button (besides BIOS editing of course). You can make it do other things once you're in Windows, but that's all.

Th3_uN1Qu3, Feb 10, 2010

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I did with Ubuntu, here my a brief guide

rief, Feb 10, 2010

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