I am using an old PCI-7340 motion card in a new computer running Windows 7. I installed LabVIEW 2013 SP1 and Ni-Motion 15.0, and downloaded new firmware to the card from NI-Motion. The card works fine mostly, and when I enable the shutdown input, and then put it in shutdown, it works properly in that it shuts down all drives. However, when I remove the shutdown input (go from 5V back to 0), the card will not come out of shutdown and no commands in LabVIEW work. Nor does anything in Max work either. The error is that the function cannot run because the machine is in shutdown, but the shutdown input has been removed. Even if I try to disable the shutdown input in MAX and then Initialize, it fails. The only recovery is to shutdown the computer, and then restart it. Not a viable response to an Emergency Stop condition.
But we used the same circuit design and motion card in three other older machines, all with LabVIEW 7.1 and an older NI-Motion, and the same Estop/shutdown connection, and they all work fine, and the moton card recovers when the shutdown input is removed.
Is the Motion driver the likely problem? Or LabVIEW 2013? Or possibly the older motion card, even with the firmware update, is not fully compatible with either LV2013 or Motion 15?
Another symptom, is that when in shutdown, the digital I/O are not controllable, whereas they are on the other machines (with the older LV and Motion). Plus on the older machines, when the card is in shutdown, I can still run the motion initialization routines in LabVIEW (for instance when I stop and restart my program), but in the latest versoin they all fail - no motion software VI's work at all after the shutdown has been activated, not even the ones that directly control unused analog or digital ports (using Read ADC, Set MOMO, ertc.).
Any ideas would be useful, especially if someone has come across this problem before and knows the fix.
