From the Desk of Asif Nawaz

So I had finally decided after 3 months of using Windows Vista, that it was time for me to switch back to Windows XP. Low and behold, I reached for my 2 disc set of Windows XP Media Center Edition Recovery CDs that I had ordered from HP, which are supposed to bring the laptop to it’s factory settings. Well, they don’t really work. The recovery discs are either defective, or they’re not meant for the laptop. I inserted the disc in CD ROM Drive and rebooted. It takes me to an HP desiged PC recovery screen and gives me warnings about how it will delete all my data and recreate the default recovery partition that the PC came with, and if I’m sure that’s what I want to do. After you say yes, it asks for you to insert disc 2 and does what it’s supposed to do until the progress bar moves to 50%. Then, once again, it asks for disc 1, but this time the process gets stuck at 50%, anywhere from 20 minutes to 45 minutes. It went no further for me than 54% one time. Once it takes this randomly determined time, the laptop just shut down. That’s right, you read right. The screen goes black, all the lights on the laptop turn off, and it SHUTS down, without any instructions or comments or anything.Â

Now if you try to reboot it, it tells you the setup.inf file has an error. So, basically the installation went to the shitter. I tried this four times, but I had no luck. After giving up with this shit hole of a business, I tried installing XP Pro. Even that had issues. The laptop would just shut off, possibly because it was overheating. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but every HP laptop I’ve had to date produces an extremely unnecessary amount of heat, including the dv2120us. At this point I’d wished I didn’t uninstall Windows Vista, but I figured maybe the recovery CDs failed because the laptop had over heated (but I wasn’t that lucky). Anyway, cooled the sucker down and installed XP pro, and I couldn’t get the sound card to work because you require a different Conexant Chip driver before you can install the Conexant HD Audio driver provided on the HP Site for dv2120us. The SP32646, which is provided on the compaq presario v3000 driver downloads page on hp.com, is required for windows will discover your sound or your modem. (I found this out after trying the recovery CDs over XP pro again, thinking that maybe the laptop heated up or something, but no such luck!). Here are the instructions on the HP site for this driver: SoftPaq Number SP32646, “Microsoft Universal Audio Architecture (UAA) Bus Driver for High Definition Audio,” (or later) must be installed on the notebook before installing this SoftPaq. Look for SP32646 (or later) on the Software and Driver Downloads section of the www.hp.com website.”
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Couldn’t these cock-sucking monkeys simply have placed a link to the SP32646 download here?

Now, after I got the sound card issue fixed, everything worked, including the Broadcom Wirless card. However, after I ran through installing all the Windows Update updates and fixes, the wireless broadcom card stopped working, and simply disappeared. I had some luck by restoring the BIOS to an older flash, but that was just a one time problem solver. I will be discussing the wireless card issue in greater detail in another article. I will also discuss why I moved away from Vista to XP in another article, which I plan to write officially as a Microsoft Partner. All in all, HPs service for their laptops has become HORRIBLE. I’ve used HP for years, and every year the number of complaints I have had increases. In fact, it has now come to the point where recovery discs ordered from HP don’t work! Hardware is defective and HP refuses to replace it. It may be time for a class action lawsuit.

Here’s the New Key for the Quick Play Direct folder.

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Ok folks, data.1cab, data2.cab, data3.cab and data4.cab are all now available under the Quick play Direct Download section. Use the same keys to download these files as you use for HPQPDP.zip.

Here’s the new key for QP Direct2.3.Â

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Here’s the new key for QPW 2.3 and 3.0.

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I’m uploading all the data.cab files separately too. I got some work to do, but I’ll answer all the posted questions shortly.Â

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Okay, here’s the new key for HPQPDP: 922e107543c7f27f6d9f9ed815f54b3b

There will be 5 parts up for this soon: data1, data2, data3, data4, and all other files.

Here’s new new key for QPW: c2d3bd37f13954076a680de6bb3fcece

This key can be accessed a total of 100 times. I have to keep doing this because I can’t allow more than a total of 100 downloads of HPQPDP in a 24 hour period, or my site gets suspended for going over the day’s bandwidth allowance. When the 100 access hits are up, the key expires, and you let me know so I can generate a new one.Â

http://www.asifism.com/downloader.

HPQPDP.zip: a3d3f0dec02e4817417376f9b48431a7

QPW 2.3 & 3.0: 2f8d93556865bbd4951c344aebdad381
Keys are valid for 30 days and accessible 50 times. If and when they expire, be sure to let me know.

Okay, for starters, forget Badongo.

I am now offering the downloads on my server, but in a restricted manner. Each download will be accessible 50 times in a 24 hour window. The access key to the download will change every 24 hours. If you can’t get in a certain day, try next time. For now, you must visit http://www.asifism.com/downloader/. Then, to download:

- Quick play Direct or HPQPDP, use the access key cb5ef0ea93364937a07a42857e2fffb4. This access key will work 50 times and will expire in approximately 24 hours.

- Quick play for Windows 2.3 or 3.0, use the access key 96aa8c9f26e5e565f0b899478ef3e0aa. This access key will work 50 times and will expire in approxmiately 24 hours. P.S. QPW 2.3 is currently uploading here, and until it reaches 70+ MB, it is NOT complete. Try downloading that an hour after this post.

Hope this helps!

This is the last time I’m attempting to upload hpqpdp.rar. Twice the electricity gave up and about 4 times Badongo gave me an error. So, if this time it doesn’t work, I’ll be setting up a form here with a separate download page for you to be redirected to for an encrypted download. This has to be done so that bots and link farms don’t push it.

Sorry, it’s the best I can do. Let’s hope badongo isn’t so bad this time around.

Asif.

Sorry folks, it’s a 700+ MB file that I was uploading. Timed out @ 680 MB. Now I gotta do it again using their upload application instead of their http. 10 hours upload time. Hang in there! QPW 3.0 will be next after HPQPDP.zip.