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    QuickPlay without booting Vista?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by CPUSpeedman07, Jan 10, 2009.

  1. CPUSpeedman07

    CPUSpeedman07 Notebook Guru

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    I just got my new DV4t yesterday with a blu ray drive and it's pretty awesome. However, I was hoping I could use the quickplay function so I could use less battery life and use my CPU's power only for watching blu rays without vista wasting resources in the background. But it always boots straight into Windows first and then loads quickplay second.

    I know this has been discussed before, but I was wondering if by now someone has found a fix for this issue?
     
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  2. S_P_Q_R

    S_P_Q_R Notebook Evangelist

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    Have you tried using this NBR guide to tweak vista so it doesn't use as much resources.
     
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    Yes I have, thanks for the link though. So has anyone figured out how to boot directly into quickplay without also booting up vista in the background?
     
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    Can't be done.
     
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    The main problem is the BIOS setting.
    For latest HP model starting from dv x5xx, pressing QuickPlay button only instruct the BIOS to look the ordinary active partition NOT HPA partition as in old HP model.

    Even if we have managed to install a tiny linux with appropriate drivers and QuickPlay equivalent software such as Elisa, here, the dual boot system will be as same as the ordinary dual boot, you needs to select which OS to run.

    Take a look of happy user of DELL here and here, they had managed to modify dell media button functions.

    Wish HP would reconsider their policy on QuickPlay Direct
     
    rief, Jan 11, 2009
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