Yesterday I’ve got an error while logging my user in. Error message showed up after choosing a user and there was written about ‘problems with checking windows licence’ – then i was logged off immedtialety. Removing flash drive put thing back to normal. (beta4)
Hi there,
first, this one works fine too. No BSoD at all. There is only one thing. when building the cache it fills the dat file completely at once (with unnecessary items too), while in beta3 only the currently needed files were cached, and later on were other files added. Because of this I found beta3 a bit faster.
There’s a lot of complaining about bad news, problems, etc. Personally, I’ve had no problems whatsoever with eBoostr on either my school PC or the much older one that is running it at home. My father’s staying alert for potential problems on that system, but he’s had nothing but a noticeable speed increase. Due to the power of my system I hardly notice one, but I’ve had no issues either.
I have some problems using Eboost.
I have to format my notebook twice. I can’t say if this is due to eboost or not.
But now everything works fine, but I do’t have installed Eboost.
As I read in others post this application works. So I think it’ s a problem of mine notebook (maybe my SD card) but as a storage drive it works good.
I don’t have another SD card to use for my purpose so for now I have to stop my beta test because I have a lot of works in this week and I have no time for test. Sorry for this I will accept all of your decision about.
Thank You!
I’ve noticed that after a restart or standby sometimes the the cache stops working because the DAT file has become corrupt. For instance My cache file should be 2560MB but when corrupt it’s around 1.5GB.
The only to fix this is to exit the program, remove the DAT file, re-add the drive then rebuild the cache.
Also the service won’t restart once you hit exit in the Control panel and reopen the program. Hitting restart caching doesn’t restart the service either. You have manually restart the service using services.msc
Well, I have been really busy these days. So before I managed to finish testing the beta 3, newer beta 3 and the newest beta 4 versions, something weird happened.
I had eBoostr running quietly in the background, the flash drive used is A-Data PD7, 2 GB, allocated memory: 1975 MB and everything was normal. Unfortunately, since yesterday the real problems started. All of the sudden the pop-up message read the data could not have been written to I:\eboostr.dat. Shortly thereafter, the flashdrive disappered from the device manager. I tried reconnecting it, it was fine again for a few hours and then another pop-up and the unit has not appeared recognized ever since, not even after countless restarts.
The unit was brand new, used only for eBoostr service, purchased October 9, 2007 and it’ll be really disappointing if it is really already gone. I don’t think it’s the fault of eBoostr, due to the number of reads and writes, I just think the unit was not all that great. What was great: its parameters, approx. 30 MB/s read and 20 MB/s write speed.
Apologies to the whole eBoostr team, I am sorry that I was not able to post any more test results due to the workload and now due to the probably faulty flashdrive. Hopefully, it gets all sorted out and I will let you know. Thanks for understanding.
new tests with beta 4:
as the other betas, i do not find any problem running the program. for now and for me, this beta is stable, no problem, no BSOD: everything run faster and better; only 70 – 75 seconds from the power button to ready desktop with several autorun programs (avg antivirus, comodo firewall, notebook hardware control, reinlander, wireless soft, clipx, keybreeze, cachemanxp, pitaschio, mmm, other services)
i’ll continue testing and searching for BSOD and other problems.
improving the “ram quantity” choosing bar may be a good idea, add a “resize cached device”.
PS
do you have ideas for the final user interface? keep windows style or add some visual effects and/or skins?
With the same flash drive, between two installation/removal of eBooster I’ve got 2 differet speed measurements.
First was about 7mb/s, present is ~1.5mb/s (with warning). System is XP Pro SP2 ENG, installed 3 days ago, with only few applications installed. Main hardware is Toshiba Sattellite A100.
I installed BETA3 with the “Enable autoupdate” option checked. AT this time no new version was available.
When a new version was available, I didn´t get the warning about a new version.
Only when I restarted the control panel, I got the message about the new version. Basicly the software was running since the installation, and I never logged of or restarted my system. It only checks for updates when the control panel is started?
When I tested Beta 3 I achieved a 2.4 Ratio without a C Drive Cache. With Beta 4 I decided to play with adding the C Drive cache on a drive faster than my flash card resulting in a .94 ratio. I uninstalled the C drive Cache and reloaded the 2 GB Attache flash drive resulting in a 1.8 ratio, which compared to Beta 3 is a fairly significant speed loss.
As has been my practice, I uninstalled eBoostr with each Beta and formated the flash drive for a fresh start, even cleaning the registry. Up to this point the results have continued to improve to the 2.4 level with Beta 3. I have been loading and unloading programs for most of the day, but the results have just gotten up to 1.8, is this version slowed by design or has there been some other significant change? I will continue to work with Beta 4 and report any postitive changes related to this beta under this heading.
