I’ve noticed that the eBoostr documentation is lacking at the moment.
And most notably how there’s install instructions:
“Install the software by downloading the installation file and completing the installation process. Once the installation is finished you have to reboot your computer.”
Wouldn’t it be hard to follow install instructions that are only accessible after you’ve installed eBoostr? Oo
i got some BSOD’s for yeah
MB:ASUS P5N32-E SLI Plus
CPU:Q6600 @ 2.4Ghz
SND:Soundmax Integrated Digital HD Audio
VID:Nvidia Geforce XFX 280 GTX XXX Edition
WIN:Vista Home Premium x64 SP2 beta 6002
HD:Seagate 250GB x2 raid (stripe)
RAM:8GB DDR2 800mhz SLI Ready (4X2GB)
65GB Eboostr 3.0.0.490: Ultra Speed 8GB, Centrios 8GB-200X,
Retail Plus 32GB(16GB), 1000GB HD(16GB), 80GB HD(16GB), ram 1GB
cache ordering:
1st RAM: 1GB
4th E:8MB USB
2nd F:16GB/1000GB HD
G:16GB/32GB USB
K:8GB USB
3rd L:16GB/80GB HD
eboostr reports service is not responding
it seems to get confused about the end of the 4th drive and
keeps writing past the end of the drive
drive G: and K: are filled almost instantly and the program
stops
eboostrcp is still in ram but ebstrsvc.exe isn’t
most likely missed error handling ie: data too large for device
possible solution: write the entire cache to HD then copy first
half of cache to 8GB #1 and second half to 8GB #2
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after reboot drives F:, G: AND L: showed in eboostr
F:16384MB, 100%, SPEED n/a
G:16384MB, 100%, 23362 KB/s
L:16384MB, 100%, 1585796 KB/s
i tried to do a speed test on F: which ended in a BSOD:
stop:0x000000F4
(0x0000000000000003,0xFFFFFA800A9D3040,0xFFFFFA800A9D3278,0xFFF
FF800024FDA50)
just before the BSOD all drives i started with showed on the
list
after restart drives F:, L: and G: show in eboostr
when i select add drives K: and E: (the two 8GB drives) show in
the list with no space available
when i remove one of the drives, goto add then select the drive
just removed; one of the 8GB drives appear with 100% cache fill
and speed
i also noticed $avg8.vault$ and $recycle.bin$ were added to the
cache
this could cause conflicts with AVG couldn’t it?
there should be a warning in eboostr NOT to cache your viruses!
the timestamp for avgmail.cfg is absent
another thing comes to mind; when saving a file ie: readme.txt
it should be updated in the cache as well in real time
“on close append/etc”
the same goes for deleted files
“on delete modify cache index”
i uninstalled my nvidia driver to install the newest certified
one and it asked me to restart.
i got this BSOD:
STOP:0X000000D4
(0XFFFFFA6004AD5E50,0X000000000000000F,0XFFFFF80002342A8B)
nvlddmkm.sys shutdown before finishing tasks
i tried reinstalling from safe mode but to no avail
i tried removing all nvidia software to no avail
i removed eboostr without erasing data to no avail
i removed eboostr and data to a glorious success
eboostr said it was going to remove the data but the usb drives
now report capacity of 0KB so i had to format them again.
i have reinstalled 3.0.0.490 but the same BSOD appears on reboot
so i went to the last version i had 3.0.0.486 and the same BSOD
i manually removed the dat files from my hard drives and now 3.0.0.490 works again no problem
on uninstall remove all dat files
on install check for but don’t activate dat files until confirmation is issued
these two steps should clear up alot of issues
hope this helps
after upgrading my Os from XP to Vista i cannot Remove the ram Cash this is a problem that i hope can be fixed as it wont use it or get rid of it but its still taking up the ram
When could we expect the def licence or will the beta keep working after the 1st February
Nothing but good luck with Beta 3.0.490. It fixed the cache problem, and my 8GB SD expresscard now fills to 100%. Very stable so far.
XPP SP3 2GB RAM IBM T60p
Continued on with testing now on build 490, on my portable desktop replacement (overgrown laptop) with stable system.
My system:
HP P4 3.4 GHz Intel chip
2 gig ram,
128 meg video,
250 gig WD 5400Rpm
Several external DVD and HDD ranging from 250 gig to 750 gig.
Orginally running XP media center with sp3, have a fully upgraded Vista Ultimate SP1.
Is a very good machine and I have no major issues or problems in system just push it very hard.
OK, I have tested using a Compact Flash 8 gig card, (in a HIGHSPEED 32bit card bus reader) and a 2 gig high speed SD card on the build in a reader. Current set up is build 490 beta, using one 4 gig sony usb drive.
Without actually testing numbers, system is very stable, and most noticed on shut down.
Previous build (and ver 2) would sometime hang on driver shut down.
Only question, Current build is set to license exprie 1 FEB, are we ready or pusing this for more testing.
Love this program and recommend it to everyone.
Thanks Thomas
Version 490 has no bugs I can find except for the one I report earlier which still exists. It is the phantom drive bug in control panel which appears on XP systems that running 24 X 7.
Fix that one and I think you have a real winner on your hands.
I have seen real performance gains on all my systems
Just to give everybody some ideas about what “performance” you might see from your systems BEFORE you implement eBootr — knowing this information will help you decide where to put your cache file(s) or whether having eBoostr will even benefit or hinder you.
Of course, system RAM is always THE best place to put cached information, but not all of us wish to give up a huge chunk of System RAM all the time (other programs might need it, e.g. Photoshop). So, I’ve run some testing on my own system to provide you with samples. I have a USB flash drive (not the best, but large capacity for my own purposes), an onboard Intel RAID controller (RAID 1 – Mirroring), and a GIGABYTE i-RAM SATA-I drive with 4GB of DDR. Here are the results using HDTACH. In my case, the [2nd] BEST place for the cache file is on the i-RAM disk (along with my pagefile, Temporary Internet Files, and system TEMP folder), where #1 would be system RAM of course.
Rankings of performance:
#1: System RAM
#2: i-RAM Disk
#3: Intel RAID 1
#4: USB Flash Drive
Hello,
I noticed a significant performance drop after updating to 490 from version 487. Please compare these pictures, first from version 487:
Memory card SanDisk Extreme 4GB speed 30x (20 MB/s)
http://img178.imageshack.us/my.php?image=eboostr304871st6.jpg
Memory card SanDisk Extreme 8GB speed 30x (20 MB/s)
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/5989/eboostr304872vc6.jpg
OK, that was excellent performance from eBoostr. Almost maximum speed my memory cards can achieve.
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After updating to 490 results show the following:
Memory card SanDisk Extreme 4GB speed 30x (20 MB/s)
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/2254/eboostr304901ju6.jpg
Memory card SanDisk Extreme 8GB speed 30x (20 MB/s)
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/5594/eboostr304902cg0.jpg
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What you say? Speed has dropped so much I can’t even believe it. Maybe I have to downgrade to 487. I love this program but I do not know what can cause this.’
Best regards
Crisse
I have had numerous screen hangs but after about 30 seconds the mouse restores. But recently scanning with PcTools Threatfire the threatfire screen hangs but rest of screen seems to respond. Couldn’t use Task Manager or shutdown. Drive activity continued like something was going on. Threatfie screen in staus bar shows Not Responding. Waited 30 minutes the shutdown by holding power button until powered down.
Using eBoostr beta latest, PcTools Threatfire 4.0.0.10. Drive activity was shown by Hddled program.
Have had no blue screen of death at all.
Most times any poblem has bee whole screen freezes for about 30 seconds like explorer has to catch up then everyting contiues.
