QuickPlay and Vista problems

Hi!

I am a new member to this forum, first I would like to thanks everybody who is making this forum alive, it has helped me so many times!

Soo, to the issues, I just bought a dv6353 yesterday and it is already getting me frustrated. First of all, the two Quickplay buttons on the remote control did not do anything when I first tried them, so I found a Quickplayer button installer on the HP web pages. After I installed that, at least I got to enter the DVD player, the problem is that both buttons (DVD and Quickplayer button) open the DVD player. As I can see from screenshots on the web the Quickplayer buttom is supposed to open a meny where you can choose between music/dvd/pictures etc. So this is my first problem, how do I get the Quickplayer button to actually enter the Quickplayer main meny (and not the DVD meny)?

Second, when I press the DVD or Quickplayer button on the remote and the computer is off, the computer does a full boot and enters the DVD player. Is there anyhow I can avoid the full Vista boot and just open Quickplayer? Does this require a separate partition? I noticed from the recovery log that the Recovery Boot partition had been deleted two days before I purchased the computer, should this have any effect?

Again, thanks, I hope anybody is able to answer, I spent hours on the web trying to find solutions but without results...

 

Nobody can help?

 

How do you know that the hidden recovery partition was deleted 2 days before you even purchased the laptop?

 

From the recovery log file. All actions and dates are store there. And I am not able to make recovery cd's, I get a message saying: "The recovery partition could not be found." when I try to make the cd's.

 

I'd take that notebook back and ask for another one. Don't take any chances. Just tell them it is BROKE and insist on a new one.

 

hi yesterday i started a fresh clean install of windows vista and first i downloaded all drivers for my notebook from the HP web page and then deleted all partitions and started a fresh install... don't know what i did wrong but now i cant see movies on my dvd!?! and my web cam and my quick play buttons does not work?!?

i have download and install all drivers from the web page but still don't work...

any help or hints?? by the way i have a dv2000t

 

I had the same problem with the quickplay buttons, they didn't work. I downloaded the Quickplayer buttons installer from HP's webage and that made me at least enter the DVD mode. But I could not enter the Quickplay main meny...you should try the Quickplayer buttons installer, maybe it will fix your problem...

 

I would ask for an exchange of your laptop from the store that you purchased your laptop from if your recovery partition is not there anymore

 

I would say that there is no way to load Quickplay without booting Vista - I purchased dv6500 yesterday, so the image was preloaded from the factory and after pressing either DVD or Quickplay, Vista has loaded.

I'll ask HP if this is the way it should be (and so it was changed from XP where Quickplay really booted from a special partition) or if it is some kind of a problem.

 

Unfortunately, thats the way it is with Vista. There is no special partition the program is just loaded after booting into Vista.

 

This has always annoyed me about upgrading to Vista. I love Vista, but I really did like the idea of being able to play a DVD without an OS when I was using XP.

I know this sounds rather clumsy and wasteful but is it possible to dual-boot XP/Vista and have QuickPlay work from it's partition? Has anyone tried this and gotten it to work?

 

That is an interesting thought, but I doubt it would work. Vista's bootloader takes priority on machines dual-booted with XP, so I would assume that Vista will prevent XP's bootable Quickplay from launching.

 

hi, I bought a pavilion dv2310us I format the hard drive without deleting the recovery drive to go back to XP I did the impossible to get the drivers for my laptop and everything was fine up to now.... Why? because the quickplay touch sensitive buttons at the top of my keybord is not working... it is so funny it's was working since 2 days ago but I don't know was is going on.... everything is working just perfect but the quickplay dvd and music buttons.... If anyone can help it should be Perfect.

 

Install the HP Quickplay 3.2, then install the HP Quick Launch Buttons. Both are found in the drivers download support page at hp.com

 

Do you have a link to where I can download the whole Quickplay 3.2 from HP?
I searched their pages but only found the upgrade from earlier versions.

 

Dell has a similar option to Quickplay on its notebookks called Mediadirect.

With Dell MediaDirect, you can have fast, easy one-button access to movies, music, photos, & Microsoft Office content without starting Microsoft Windows!

Does anyoneknow if Dell can get its mediadirect to work with Vista without doing a full Vista boot?

 

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...-1&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=3370089&os=2093

That worked for me.

 

My quickplay buttons have always worked and the partitions were present upon delivery. If you do not have the recovery partition the notebook has to go back, unless they will ship you recovery dvds free of charge.

 

I have a dv6125se with windows media center.
I resized the partition using partition magic and installed Vista Ultimate 64bit.
Vista provided with a boot menu, good enough.
But as the partition of the Quickplay has changed, the quick button from switched off state went to normal OS boot up.
I deleted the 1 gb Quick Play Direct partition.
Then I ran the setup from C:\SWSetup\HPQPDP.
It restored the QuickPlay Direct.
Now I have both Win media center and Vista along with QuickPlay Direct.

Hope this help you.

 

Good find. Anyone have any other info on this. Should be a way to play a DVD without running Vista. Sounds like a step backwards for Microsoft. SP1 fix????

 

Do you mean you found a workaround for Quickplay being able to boot itself on a Vista machine? That is terrific for those that missed the feature on Vista. I don't think even HP has figured it out yet.........

 

Thanks, but it seems like this is just an update:

"Users who are already running a supported Microsoft Windows Vista Operating System can use this SoftPaq to upgrade HP QuickPlay version 3.0 or 3.1 to HP QuickPlay version 3.2."

Do you know where I can find the whole thing, not just the update?

 

I purchased my HP DV9500t in June. It has Vista home premium and has the quickplay v3.2. Sorry to say that this version still does not use QPDP either. Upon using the QP buttons, Vista starts up and then QP starts.

Not what we want at all. I haven't seen anything from HP about having a patch for this, but apparently HP knows of the problem, based on conversations others have had with HP.

I'm just waiting for an HP fix for this. Gotta believe they must do something about it,as more and more new owners discover that a glaring behavior from Vista makes their 'quickplay' buttons seem pretty stupid.

I'm not willing to call HP support and get some fluncky that tries to fix it over the phone. Too many bad things could happen.

 

R4000: I used the method outlined by ranabdc and it does work! I can press the DVD Quick Launch button and it boots to QuickPlay. I can also boot to WinXP & Vista just fine. Good work, ranabdc!

I have a few concerns/comments:

1. You have to dual-boot or at least it would seem you have to. I'd rather just have Vista and QPD.

2. The first time you run QPD it takes just as long to boot (in fact, slightly longer) as it does to boot WinXP. After that it seems to be using the hibernate file to boot quickly. I wonder if there are any long-term issues with battery life or what would happen if you told WinXP or Vista to hibernate.

3. It would seem that this only works with the QPD version that HP ships with WinXP. I don't think the newer versions will. Maybe this doesn't matter.

 

So the solution is to dual-boot XP and Vista and the quick play will boot normally?

 

I think we need to install QPDP (Quick Play Direct Play) but do they offer this on their website?

 

Yes. Here's what I did:

• Clean Installed HP supplied XP (MCE) from Restore Disks
• Repartitioned my MCE C: drive to make space for Vista using Partition Magic
• Installed Vista on the newly freed space
• Booted to MCE and deleted the QPD partition using Windows Disk Management
• Re-installed QPD from C:\SWSetup\HPQPDP\setup.exe
• Booted QPD by pressing DVD key (this takes a while the first time)
• Turned off my notebook using the power key (this sent the machine into Hibernate)

I cold booted into Windows XP MCE and Vista to make sure they both worked after all this (they did). Then I turned off the notebook once more and hit the DVD key again. This time QPD launched in about 15 seconds!

 

Anyone try installing this (HP Quickplay Boot) on a dv6500 series running Vista? http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...n&cc=us&dlc=en&product=1842155&os=228&lang=en

 

Apparently QPDP works by installing Windows XP embedded (XPe) or a stripped down version of linux (older version of QP) on a separate partition. So when you press the QL buttons, it'll boot the mini-OS on the QP partition instead of the windows OS. So my guess is that XPe doesn't really play well with Vista, especially, if Vista insists on having priority as some other have alleged.

 

All,

I have a brand new 6500t CTO that came with Vista Home Premium. I just finished downgrading to XP, and want to get quickplay working again. But, the QP that comes on the new laptops is Vista only. Does anyone know where I can get the latest XP version... or can someone post it somewhere for all those folks who got stuck with Vista out of the box but want their full-featured Quickplay functionality!

 

Have you looked at the downloads for your model/OS?

http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html

 

richard13: Yes... but they don't offer the actual quickplay software as a download, only the drivers for the OS for the buttons themselves.

 

Hey Fant, does this truly work with Vista? Anybody try this yet?

 

i would return the laptop or get it reflashed by the company. you will find those recovery disks handy.

as for quickplay, thats the way it works with Vista. if you have Vista, it will boot into Windows first, and then start quickplay.

 

http://download.cyberlink.com/ftpdload/patch/hp_nb/3_0/QuickPlay_32.exe
Quickplay 3.2 Download

Cyberlink is the company that developed Quickplay for HP.

 

Anyone knows how HP Recovery Disc Creation actually works? Which INI file it nees to check?

I found it is using the file "CD Creator.exe" under folder "C:\Windows\SMINST" to prompt the window "Recovery Disc Creation", but it keeps saying the recovery partion can't be found, although it's there without touched.