Looking for drivers for an old PCI-FlexMotion card

[grivilla]

I'm trying to use an old PCI-FlexMotion card (ASSY nr. 184979B-01) in my win XP PC.  The motion software version 5.0 seems not to have a compatible driver because the OS did not found the PIC card. I did not find any addtional driver on NI-support side. Is there any chance to use the PIC card. That old is it not!

thanks.

A. Villa

Airbus Germany 

[Jochen]

The PCI-FlexMotion isn't supported in the latest driver versions of NI-Motion (current version: 7.6). Still it is possible to run this board under Windows XP using FlexMotion software 5.1.1f5.
If you need a replacement for future projects, you should have a look at NI 734x and NI 735x motion controllers. These controllers are based on the  FlexMotion architecture, so you will be able to reuse your code with these controllers.

I hope this helps,

Jochen Klier
National Instruments

[grivilla]

Nop, it didn't work:

but:  I have only MOTION 5.2. (no other older version in available in the NI-Support page) However, I tried with 5.2 copying the files as described in the readme text.  The OS does not recognise the FlexMotion board.

Trying choosing the driver manually (PCI device propertiesà update driveràspecific locationà don’t search)  in the NI motion controller driver list the Flexmotion board does not appear. I only see: PCI-encoder-4a, PCI Servo-XX, PCI-Step-XXX and some other  PXI-7XXX devices.  I’ve test some of them with no success.

Thank you.

A. Villa

Airbus Deutschland GmbH

[Jochen]

Oh, I'm sorry. I have posted only the link to the 5.1.1f5 patch for the FlexMotion software. You will have to install this software on top of FlexMotion 5.1.1.

By the way: Here you can find all motion driver versions.

Telling from the product names that you mention, you have installed the NI ValueMotion driver. This is a driver for a quite old and obsolete series of motion controllers. Please uninstall it.

Best regards,

Jochen Klier
National Instruments

[grivilla]

It works!! Thank you so much.

A. Villa

[JannisChris]

Hello to all,

I have the same problem as down described, and we need the Windows XP drivers, but  on the Link from Jochen there are no files anymore.

It would be great if somebody has the windows XP Drivers, could upload them or send me a link it would be fantastic.

many thanks in advance.

WE are using this board

Model: PCI-Flexmotion-6C
Part Number: 184979B-01

And we need to supply new PC's on Windows XP to our customers, the current PC's are running on Windows 98 and we can not get this anymore

many thanks once more

Looking forward to your reply

jannis

[AnalogKid2DigitalMan]

Try here:

ftp://ftp.ni.com/support/motion/Software/PC/FlexMotion/ 

-AK2DM

[JannisChris]

many thanks, I downloaed the files and hopefully it will work.

many regards, jannis