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Pros: 555

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Bottom Line: 555

ixxy reviewed v2.3.0 Build 2164 on Jan 23, 2005

Installed it once, blue screen after restart. Had to reinstall system.
Thought it was some other hardware problem I had, so I gave it another chance few weeks later, since my motherboard requires for this to be installed. Blue screen again. Could not go back to 'last known good configuration', since it really slowed my pc down.

Stay away from this piece of junk.

nycforever reviewed v2.3.0 Build 2164 on Feb 27, 2004

HOLY Shnikeys!!! I feel so bad for that guy who had to REinstall his PC WHOA, I thought that's what i was gonna have to do.. I know its a little old and still in BETA but COM'ON!! Super Blue SCreen after restart is not funny-very scary. Luckily I was able to revert back to my last working windows otherwise I'd be right next to that sad guy Reinstalling my windows. At your own Risk is right. It's a killer I'm warning you. --- 845 chipset

lammas reviewed v2.3.0 Build 2164 on Nov 22, 2002

Runs very well on XP pro with Geforce 4400 card and 845WN motherboard. Runs acutally so well that Sandra reported only slight perfomance drop for my first HDD while I unpacked some huge archive on second HDD on same controller and FTP saving also to the 2nd HDD. Before insalling the accelerator system became so sluggish while unpacking something even the mouse wouldnt move smoothly. I did get blue screens with some earlier version, so its definetly neccesary to make use of the system restore function before installing the driver

Direnc reviewed v2.3.0 Build 2164 on Nov 21, 2002

This is great...I have a motherboard with intel 815 chipset and a Celeron 533 CPU. Before installing this driver, my Win2K would take 75 seconds to boot; noe it's only 55 seconds. It does not make this much of a difference winXP,which already takes less than 30 seconds to boot, though.

dkratter reviewed v2.3.0 Build 2164 on Nov 21, 2002

Do NOT use this with an Nvidia GeForce3 or GeForce4 video card on Windows XP (maybe Windows 2000 as well). It will cause your computer to lose its ACPI functionality, and will force your display into VGA mode with XP being unable to recognize your video card (it might take a couple of days for the problem to occur). An uninstall of it should restore your computer to full ACPI functionality and fix the display.

klumy reviewed v2.3.0.2164 on Nov 15, 2002

IAA runs great for me,

all things went smoother and faster ;)

ogre2112 reviewed v2.3.0.2164 on Nov 6, 2002

"Application Accelerator" - Fancy name for an IDE DRIVER. =)

edlivian reviewed v2.30.2160 Beta on Oct 20, 2002

Great....i would never believe any system could boot that fast, and my system isnt that fast.

Aimo reviewed v2.30.2160 Beta on Oct 19, 2002

still no problems - my system is running excellent, but i'm awaiting the final version.

golbex reviewed v2.30.2160 Beta on Oct 18, 2002

Has anyone here tried this new version yet? The last one didn't go so hot for me. Did anyone's system crash on startup with this one?

LucaP reviewed v2.30.2160 Beta on Oct 17, 2002

IAA is the worst thing ever released by Intel. It's absolutely flawed and buggy. It has corrupted two i845E based systems, a P4 2.26B Asus P4B533 one and a P4 2.4B GigaByte 8IEXP after a short while. First you get strange memory leaks behaviour on your applications at random, then you get NTFS corruption solved by chkdsk at startup (with HDUs in perfect condition and zero defective sectors). At a max of 24 hours after NTFS corruption you get Administrator user account and other accounts corruption--then the system is totally scrambled and unreliable and nothing works properly. This happened after 14 days on average with IAA 2.2 installed on both Win2K SP2SRP1 and Win2K SP3. With IAA 2.2.2 the system bombs just after 12 hours even without any service pack installed. IAA 2.1 made the system bomb after 1 month or so.
Then there's another P4 1.60A P4B266 i845D system where the system started bombing yesterday, 2 months since last installation with IAA 2.1 and Win2K SP2SRP1.
Other users reported issues on the usenet even on i850 and i850E, so issues are widespread.

If your mouse pointer is acting strangely, if you get virtual memory pages errors, memory leaks and application errors or weirdness and you got IAA installed in your system, then reinstall your system from scratch without IAA and forget about IAA because it's surely the culprit if it's installed there.

I bought Intel hardware for reliability and stability and it's a shame to see IAA making an Intel system as much unstable and unreliable as a AMD/VIA thing.

I already informed Intel about all the issues in detail and whoever has bugs to report them then file an official complain on their support pages so that they can decide to either drop IAA or release something that actuall works.

IAA is worse than the ancient Intel Bus Master drivers that simply never worked right because IAA seems to work at first but then it makes your system go berserk and collapsing in a either short or long time.

MMPD reviewed v2.30.2144 Beta on Aug 22, 2002

No Problems, this time. Installation went fine, the boot time is the same tho as well as with everything else so no noticeable change from when I had the software installed or no IAA installed. I am running the 850 Chipset, My comp is messed up so it is not very accurateing i get extremely long boot times on Windows XP. Total Boot time 1 minute 23 seconds... Windows ME Boot time 20 seconds

weaselthend reviewed v2.30.2144 Beta on Aug 22, 2002

Great utility. I have noticed a significant performance increase. Faster boot times, quiter operation, and my CD-Burner even seems to burn faster--go figure. No problems at all during installation on a P4 2Ghz Intel 850E chipset. Well worth it. Good luck all.

Tux0Racer reviewed v2.30.2144 Beta on Aug 22, 2002

Yeah the last time I installed this Windows blue screened before it would even finish loading up. I had to totally re-install Windows and lost everything :( I don't think this is worth the risk.

gelius reviewed v2.30.2144 Beta on Aug 22, 2002

Worked fine for me on a P4 1.7 with Intel 845 chipset and Win2000. Boot time cut by 30 seconds and harddrive seem to load faster.

eviljolly reviewed v2.30.2144 Beta on Aug 21, 2002

scary....just plain scary....

animespy reviewed v2.30.2144 Beta on Aug 21, 2002

I'm AFRAID to give this one a beta test, judging from what happened to me last version... I don't fall for the same trick twice, Intel.

animecabbit reviewed v2.3.2143 Beta on Jul 14, 2002

Judging from the last 8 comments, all one star and only one being two star, I don't think I'll try this virus out! :(

CyberDoc999 reviewed v2.3.2135 Beta on Jun 21, 2002

Very Buggy!

slampuppy reviewed v2.3.2135 Beta on Jun 17, 2002

As you know Intel makes a good chip, but their software leaves a lot to be desired.I don't know what or why they produce software. Leave that to someone who can make good software.Intel has caused me many hours of grief, with the junk they put out.

tvaccari reviewed v2.3.2135 Beta on Jun 17, 2002

Crashed my system. Had to restore from backup.

golbex reviewed v2.3.2135 Beta on Jun 16, 2002

My computer crashed using the driver installed from this and I have the proper chipset. All I can say is thank god windows has a rollback feature, or I wouldn't be able to get online to write this review. Thumbs way down on this one.

xprince7 reviewed v2.3.2135 Beta on Jun 16, 2002

I also have a 845 chipset and a p4 , 1.5 g with xp pro.. THis damn thing trashed my computer. Thank god for the rollback feature. Im sticking with version 2.2 til this thing becomes final. Next time anyone upgrade something like this make a system recovery point right before installing. It will save u a lot of headaches. I had to reinstall some of my software.

captainmarvel reviewed v2.3.2135 Beta on Jun 16, 2002

I installed this update and it trashed my system. It removed both of my dial up connections and prevented me from recreating them. I had to restore from backup. I suspect that this is SABATOGE-WARE, not a real leak.

_jaz_ reviewed v2.3.2135 Beta on Jun 16, 2002

I installed this software on a QDI motherboard (with i845 chipset) and P4 1.5Ghz with WinXP pro and I didn't get any improvement on OS speedup (It even seemed that it took some seconds more to start).
Also, for some reason, my CD rewriter became unnaccesible (This means, the drive letter accesible, but like if it was empty). Probably this last issue had to do with the driver using a 40-conductor cable, but the requirements say that this would only slow down it, not make it stop working.

No BSOD's or any other weird behaviour.

NeoSapience reviewed v2.2 on Apr 28, 2002

Yet another BSOD from this program under WindowsXP. Couldn't even get into safe mode, had to revert to last known good config again. All the new versions seem to do is change the type of BSOD I get on reboot. LOL

Kiriakos GR reviewed v2.1 Build 2124 on Apr 4, 2002

The 2.1 is still a BETA , but it works really good ..
The ver 2.0 is also good , and there is no any problems like with the older IAA versions as the 1.X ..
But i always advice that one Ghost image of your OS partition ,will offer one choice to roll back , just in case that your system does not like the IAA . *

(*) Crazy CPU over clock ,or personal likes or dislikes about the IAA performance .
Some one did not liked the IAA ,just because he see few points drop in Sandra .
Personally I like it allot ,as it does speed up things , but in my case i use one Promise PCI ATA 100 controller ,for my main HDs .
And even that way i do see more speed in opening applications , but my HD benchmarks does not look to get effected by the IAA .
So I can only guess that the IAA works normally and really does what INTEL say so .

xtcsalty reviewed v2.1 Build 2124 on Apr 4, 2002

3/1/2002

Driver Version 2.1.0.2112

So? where's this 2124?
i installed this yesterday

stevennkc reviewed v2.1 Build 2124 on Apr 4, 2002

After installing it, I checked the version and it says 2.0.0.2093
Is this really final 2124 version???

controler reviewed v2.1 Beta on Mar 23, 2002

The Intel Site reads,,,
You don't need the utilities install first with the 820 chipset if you are running
Windows ME, Windows 2000 or Windows XP

zyon reviewed v2.1 Beta on Mar 23, 2002

I haven't really noticed any great speed increase, but my hard drive is sure a lot less noisy. Go figure; the most unbelievable thing about this software was the most obvious.

I'm using an Abit SE6, and it's got the Intel 815E (ICH2) chipset.

animespy reviewed v2.0 on Feb 18, 2002

It didn't seem to work for me. I think my computer is a bit slower now and-- oh look... it won't uninstall on my XP machine. Oh well. Sorry Intel, it pains me but I'll have to give ya a one for this...

donpacman reviewed v2.0 on Feb 17, 2002

* * * * Make shore that you Download and Install the "Chipset Software Installation Utility" FIRST !! * * * * and then Download & Install "Intel Application Accelerator" SECOUND...

golbex reviewed v2.0 on Feb 17, 2002

This program made my system slower (and I have the chipset). Now, I also can't run it's installer for some odd reason. Two thumbs down.

Richard30ky reviewed v2.0 on Feb 17, 2002

improvement to the eyes less thrashing sound more speed and improvement
with many test benchmark software that proved it other words it does what it says. others need to read close ITS FOR THE INTEL 800 SERIES CHIPSET ONLY

cintel reviewed v2.0 on Feb 17, 2002

Sysoft Sandra shows a performance increase in HDD performance, and the new UltraATA drivers really show-up in game load times!

y2jowee reviewed v2.0 on Feb 17, 2002

Just wanted to say thanks to kgruber for posting that link. What an eye opener! Still noticed a speed increase with the Accelerator on my system, but it just might be the last Pentium system I'll ever buy. Wish I saw that site 2 months ago.

NeoSapience reviewed v2.0 on Feb 16, 2002

ok, I lied, I just HAD to give the final version a shot. It DID install correctly this time, which was great. I didn't see any speed increase though, and when I was checking to see if my hardware was ok, I noticed that one of my hard drives was missing! I had to uninstall it to get my drive back... When will this program actually WORK?

ditoa reviewed v2.0 on Feb 16, 2002

ok i know nothing about my CPU other than it is a Pentium 3 700Mhz CPU, what are the chances it will work? Not much i guess yeah? please reply. thanks

sallande reviewed v2.0 Beta on Jan 23, 2002

I´ve been using it for a couple of months now and love it. Not a single hang or BSOD.
Conf: Intel 815EEA, 1000Mhz PIII, 512MB Ram, WinXP

NeoSapience reviewed v2.0 Beta on Jan 23, 2002

Intel strikes again! I've never been able to get this program to work correctly, either on WindowsME or XP. I always get a BSOD, and with XP it was the dreaded - UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME error. Thank god XP can roll back to the last known good configuration. With ME though, I had to reinstall the entire OS. I will NEVER use another intel program again, nor will I ever buy their products.

bmw15 reviewed v2.0 Beta on Jan 23, 2002

Dude, Intel 800 series chipset only! Read the description!

wouterheid reviewed v2.0 Beta on Jan 23, 2002

does it work for AMD cpu's too?

phoenixx_ reviewed v2.0 Beta on Jan 23, 2002

It really rocks! It shows a 20% speed improvement over the old "Intel Ultra ATA" drivers and a 40% speed improvement windows' own drivers. The only negative is that Norton Speed Disk doesn't seem to like it, it complains that it is incompatible with the drivers. So Norton Speed Disk can't be run under Win 9x/me. That sucks