mxwOTask.dll

[Nickster]

Each time I close LV7 on my WinXP machine, I get the following error:

"The application or DLL C:\Program Files\National Instruments\MAX\mxwOTask.dll is not a valid Windows image.  Please check this against your installation diskette."

I recently had to image my old hard drive and transfer it to a new one, as my old hard drive was in the process of dying.  Some stuff with LV apparently got screwed up in the whole transfering process, and I had a handful of these types of errors in LV7 & LV8 (I have both installed on my machine) and probably in DIAdem and other stuff.  However, by using the repair feature in the installer, I have been able to successfully get rid of all the problems (as far as I know) except the one mentioned above.  I have tried repairing both the installation of LV7 and the installation of MAX (not to mention LV8)... multiple times!  Any ideas why I can't shake this problem?  Any ideas on how to fix it?

P.S. - Yes, I've run chkdsk /f on my drive.

Nick

[SamboNI]

Hi nickster,

Which version of MAX are you using, and which of DAQmx? It sounds like something is corrupted in MAX, and it is possible that either an upgrade or an uninstall/reinstall of DAQmx (which bundles MAX with it) might resolve this.

Regards,

[Nickster]

Ah ha!  Thanks, Sam.  Repairing DAQmx did the trick.  I had thought, with the path that the dll was under, that I just needed to repair MAX.  Apparently the dependency is with DAQmx, not MAX, even though the dll is in the MAX folder.