dv8000t, Quickplay installation.

Hello everyone,

I know you've all read this many many times, the same good old story about quickplay and about problems getting it work.

Anyway, I reinstalled my system to windows xp pro some time ago, but yesterday I felt like I needed quickplay, immediately.

There are several questions I have, therefore. First of all, I did not seem to get the quickplay that most other people have in their SWSETUP folder. My quickplay folder is a mere 27 MB of files, while other people talk about it being 400+. That does makes sense, since it does require the 1200 MB partition. By the way, after I installed it, the 1200 MB partition remained empty.

I found an installation guide for dv8000 notebook here. The guy had uploaded a 450 MB CD image with quickplay in it. The files there were different from mine. I tried installing it, although unfortunately, it gave me errors at 15% of installation each time I would run it.

I also contacted HP support, who gave me a part # for quickplay recovery CD, which ironically is not available for order.

Anyway, does anyone have any solutions to this problem?

Thank you guys very much in advance.

 

I have a dv5000 and I have Quick Play folder in my SWSETUP folder. I could upload them on my server and you could try them out. PM me if your interested.

I don't know if the dv5000 vers would work with dv8000 but the laptops seem very similar.

 

vytautasvaicys:

Hhmm, I have a feeling you just installed HP QuickPlay for XP, no doubt from the folder titled "QPW" inside the "SWSetup" folder...

Look for a folder titled "HPQPDP" and run the Setup executable from inside there, that is HP QuickPlay Direct, which allows you to watch/listen to media without booting into XP... It will install into the 1028MB of unpartitioned space.

Test it afterwards with a DVD, it should work... Any problems, just report back!

Good luck.

 

Thanks Ajeet for reply. Unfortunately, the HPQPDP folder simply is not there. Its weird, but its not! I downloaded the one someone had posted, and I think its the same thing. Before i was getting this error message at 15%

ComponentMovedata had the following error:

Component: QuickPlay Component
File Group:
File:
Error Number: -2147418113

Anyways, I figure out why that happens and how. The quickplay partition is invisible, however, during installation of windows xp pro windows saw that partition and made it into fat 32. Quickplay thus stopped working.

The way to get rid of this message, and I found that a lot of people did, is to erase all logical data on this partition. I used Acronis True Image to simply erase all logical data, it takes like 1 second. Then the setup went flawlessly.

I figured out one amazing thing though. People think that when they launch quickplay, they actually launch their windows. Wrong! Along with quickplay, they install the entire windows xp os! Therefore, ahaving the right drivers, it would theoretically be possible to launch a different os (such as linux) by pressing the quickplay button instead of the power button. I find it truly amazing, I never realized it works that way.