Hi all-
I had to rebuild my machine and had to reinstall LabView.
Before the rebulid, everything with NI, DAQ cards and LV were running smoothly.
Now I have run into troubles upon re-installation of LabView.
First the specs:
Windows XP, SP2
3 NI cards: 6071E, 6602, 6503.
LV 7.1
NI-DAQ 6.9.3 (ancient, I know. I built software over the past 5 years that
interfaces to even more ancient electronics, so I'm forced into using these
versions.)
At any rate, my problem is that after I install LV, then the drivers, I do not see NI-DAQ VIs
appear in my LV functions palette. I found the document online that says
to do LV first, then the drivers second (following the advise in:
(http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/46E1672AB48C917D86256AFE00075436#DAQmx)
That is to say, when XP boots up, the little bubbles pop up saying "new PCI device detected." I click cancel so that drivers are not installed until AFTER I install LV. Then when I reboot, I install the drivers for all 3 cards listed above.
The cards are recognized OK, and I can see and configure them in MAX, just no functions on the palette were installed that correspond to these cards, such as AI-start.vi, DIO Port configure.vi, DIO write.vi, etc.
I tried reversing the order, drivers first, LV second, no luck.
I know it is possible to succeed, because I did this correctly once before 4
years ago. But I can't figure out what is going wrong now.
A few last tidbits that might prove helpful:
just to be clear: there are 3 CDs involved with this installation.
1. LV full development system 7.1 CD
2. Instrument Device Drivers CD
3. NI-DAQ software for windows xp (v 6.9.3) CD
When I am prompted for the device drivers disk, all goes well...I think.
When prompted to "select features to install" I selectr "Traditional NI
DAQ 7.0" and proceed. I do not need DAQmx, so I don't choose to install it.
Any ideas what I am doing wrong/how to fix this? I am probably missing something obvious.
NI people are such a knowledgeable bunch, and I'm sure we'll nip this in the bud no problem.
Cheers all-
jon