Labview won't believe that my frame grabber board is configured?

[AMB]

Thank you in advance for any help:)

I am new to labview. I am sorry if this is a silly question, but I have worked on it for hours and haven't been able to find the solution.
I am using a NI-IMAQ PCI-1422 board to aquire images from a Pulnix TM 1020 camera. I can successfully see the camera from both the MAX and IMAQ vision builder. When I go to the DAQ Solution Wizard in Labview it says that "You have no DAQ hardware currently configured," and it sends me back to the Measurement and Automation Explorer 3.0 It looks configured to me and all my attempts to configure it more fully didn't make the system happy so I don't understand what else I need to do.

Also, where are the instrument driver VIs f
or this? Do I already have them hidden somewhere or do I need to go and download them?
Any advice that you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
-Anita

Also, in case you are bored, here is an overview of what I am trying to do. I want to write a labview program which will allow me to specify a delay in seconds and then have labview acquire a an image from the frame grabber board and save it to disk, wait the specified delay period and then acquire and save ...

[craigherdman]

Anita,

Since you are using an NI-IMAQ PCI-1422 board you will not be able to use the DAQ Solution Wizard. Your board uses the NI-IMAQ driver software instead of the NI-DAQ software. You will want to use the Vision VIs which can be found by right-clicking on the block diagram and selecting Functions->All Functions->NI Measurements->Vision.

You can find some LabVIEW examples by checking your LabVIEW directory and navigating to the Examples->Vision directory. You can also find these examples by using the LabVIEW example finder by navigating to Help->Find Example

I have attached a helpful excerpt from an online knowledge base. The full knowledge base can be found pendocument >here. Please post back if you are still having troubles!

Craig H.
National Instruments

[AMB]

Hi Craig,
Thank you so much for the advice. I guess that I was really going about it the wrong way.

Unfortunately I still seem to be having trouble. I am running Labview 6.0 which was installed months after I installed MAX 3.0 and NI-IMAQ driver 2.21. There are no vision functions on the functions menu in labview that I can find. The examples folder in my Labview 6.0 folder has no IMAQ and no vision vi(s). I do have two other Labview folders (6.1 and 7.0) which do not have an executable main labview program, but do contain IMAQ vi(s). Unfortunately they refuse to run with Labview 6.0. Do you think that I need to uninstall everything and install it again? Could my installing Labview 6.0 last have screwed everything else? Any more advice would be gre
atly, greatly appreciated:)

Thanks,
Anita

[Julie S]

Anita -
It does sound like you have an incorrect installation of LabVIEW and the IMAQ driver. Your best bet is to uninstall the IMAQ driver through Add/Remove Programs and then reinstall the latest version, 2.6, which is available for download here: http://digital.ni.com/softlib.nsf/websearch/50F6D6F1094A033586256D52006146E0?opendocument&node=132060_US

When you are installing the driver, make sure that you specify support for LabVIEW 6.0, and it will install the proper VIs for that version. Because you installed LabVIEW 6.0 after the IMAQ driver, it did not install the VIs for it.
Hope this helps -
Julie S
Applications Engineer
National Instruments