PXI 8186 crash

[rtp6xc]

We are using a PXI 8186 and it booted fine until yesterday when it sudendly crashed part of the way into the boot and then rebooted into a safe mode. Here is a copy from the log of what we get:

System log started Fri Jul 29 10:34:23 2005



---------------------- NI-Serial v2.5 for LabVIEW RT ----------------------
 COM1  - COM2  |  PXI Controller Built-In Serial Interfaces
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Welcome to LabVIEW Real-Time 7.1
*** REGISTER DUMP FROM EXCEPTION HANDLER (code 18) ***

EAX = 0x0191E800    EBX = 0x0191E800
ECX = 0x0191E800    EDX = 0x00214C00
ESI = 0x00000020    EDI = 0x00000000

EBP = 0x00A19110    ESP = 0x00a18e18
CS = 0x0018  DS = 0x0020  ES = 0x0020
EIP = 0x001714cc

Thread name: <unnamed>
Thread stack base: 0x009FA000  stack size: 131072

Call Stack:
Level 1 :  Code pointer: 0x001716D7  Stack Base: 0x00A19808
Level 2 :  Code pointer: 0x00A488B0  Stack Base: 0x00A19820
Level 3 :  Code pointer: 0x00A59C93  Stack Base: 0x00A19AAC
Level 4 :  Code pointer: 0x00A3DA2A  Stack Base: 0x00A19AC4
Level 5 :  Code pointer: 0x00A3DF64  Stack Base: 0x00A19C0C
Level 6 :  Code pointer: 0x00A3DC74  Stack Base: 0x00A19C44
Level 7 :  Code pointer: 0x00A3DB94  Stack Base: 0x00A19C60
Level 8 :  Code pointer: 0x00A3DBF4  Stack Base: 0x00A19F10
Level 9 :  Code pointer: 0x009984EB  Stack Base: 0x00A19F64
Level 10:  Code pointer: 0x0098E855  Stack Base: 0x00A19FA4
Level 11:  Code pointer: 0x0098FA3A  Stack Base: 0x00A19FC0
Level 12:  Code pointer: 0x0011C92D  Stack Base: 0x00000000

DLLs loaded:
DLL: EMBLVIEW.EXE     First export address: 0x00307040
DLL: FTPSERVE.DLL     First export address: 0x0029DBE8
DLL: I8254X.DLL       First export address: 0x0029B003
DLL: I8255X.DLL       First export address: 0x002DF6CD
DLL: IRDA.DLL         First export address: 0x00628389
DLL: LIBICONV.DLL     First export address: 0x00274430
DLL: LVRT.DLL         First export address: 0x00348B20
DLL: MXS.DLL          First export address: 0x00A220C2
DLL: MXSEMB.DLL       First export address: 0x008D2E84
DLL: MXSIN.DLL        First export address: 0x00A3DB5F
DLL: MXSUTILS.DLL     First export address: 0x00843102
DLL: NIDMMU.DLL       First export address: 0x01986010
DLL: NIICFQSV.DLL     First export address: 0x01931A81
DLL: NIIDQSVR.DLL     First export address: 0x00B83210
DLL: NIPALP.DLL       First export address: 0x00685F67
DLL: NIPXIRMP.DLL     First export address: 0x00990233

[Jeff M]

The ***REGISTER DUMP FROM EXCEPTION HANDLER (code 18) *** is a catch-all error message.  Because of this, it's hard to say what exactly caused it.  I'm pretty sure the state of your application somehow corrupted some files, perhaps there was a file i/o write operation at the same time a power cycle occurred--which caused the corruption.

The best course of action in this case is to begin un-installing drivers one by one (assuming you can still talk to the controller in MAX), and see if all of a sudden it boots up normally.  In which case you can then re-install that particular driver.  You can also take care of it all at once using a format disk and then re-installing all the software from you host PC. 

There's also a small possibility that there is a driver conflict on the controller, but this seems unlikely since your application was previously working fine. 

Jeff M.

Applications Engineering, National Instruments

[Gibbi]

hi out there,

anyone solved this problem??

hope someone could help!!

thanks a lot

gibbi

[Sean_C.]

Hello Gibbi,

Are you experiencing the same problem?  The exact same error?  Have you tried the steps listed in Jeff M's post?

Please respond with more details about your problem, and I will be glad to help you troubleshoot.

Regards,
Sean C.