Windows Readyboost Won't Work! Help!

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Hey guys and gals, I'm having trouble with Windows Readyboost on my machine (the workstation in my sig).

I've used this guide to troubleshoot, but the problem is the fact that the transfer speed on ALL of my drives is too slow... the event viewer shows that all of my flash drives (regardless of which one is used) is only transfering a read performance of 1351KB/s (USB 1.1 speeds) though the ports they are on are all USB 2.0. They are all on a PCI USB 2.0 card and I have tried two other USB 2.0 cards (though my onboard is only 1.1).

However, I know for a fact that all of my flash drives are USB 2.0 and can transfer data on other machines at well over 3-6MB/s at least (sometimes 8MB/s+).

Could this be a driver issue? Could my onboard USB drivers perhaps be slowing my PCI USB 2.0 card port speed down?

Please help me! I'm in dire need of Readyboost since my system only has 512MB of RDRAM (very rare and expensive to upgrade).

Any and all help would be most appreciated! ;)
 
Sounds like an issue with the USB controller, not Readyboost itself. Are you sure the system is using USB 2.0 drivers for the add-in card? Maybe it is using the same driver for the add-in as it is for the onboard? Have you tried disabling the onboard and re-installing drivers for the add-in card?
 
Here is the message that I am given when it doesn't work...

"The device (SanDisk Cruzer) will not be used for a ReadyBoost cache because it has insufficient read performance: 1403 KB/sec."

But the drive itself SHOULD be able to transfer faster than this and is readyboost compatible.

It could be a driver issue... please help!
(thanks for the above comments) :)


EDIT:

Here is the flash drive I am trying to get it to work with:
http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Item(2645)-SDCZ6-016G-A11-SanDisk_Cruzer_Micro_16GB_Black.aspx
 
Looks like that workstation uses the 02H882 motherboard. Doesn't look like it's chipset yet supported USB 2.0

Should be able to get a cheapo pci card for that though.
 
Ehren8879 said:
Looks like that workstation uses the 02H882 motherboard. Doesn't look like it's chipset yet supported USB 2.0

Should be able to get a cheapo pci card for that though.
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2 post in a row in the same thread and you missed that the OP clearly states he is using a USB 2.0 PCI card for these devices.

OP that is a strange problem, I had boards years back that had a mix of USB 1 and 2 ports built in with no problems so I have no idea why your having problems with the add on card.

If you have anything else connected to the USB 2.0 card try it with them removed. Also if you don't need the built in USB ports try disabling them in the BIOS. You could also try the USB card in another PCI slot if you haven't already. Fresh drivers after any of these steps couldn't hurt.

If none of the above works for you I would have to think the problem is the PCI card you have and would suggest you get a different one and see what happens.
 
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