NI-DAQmx and LabVIEW Compatibility

[DarkMattertnf]

Hi,

I am struggling to find compatibility for 'NI-DAQmx LabVIEW Compatibility 17-Jan-24' for the version of software I am working with for a client. The version of the labview I have to use is 5.0.1 (from approx 1999) and DAQ card PCI-MIO-16E-4 (0XAEA8A1) with MAX configuration manager version 2.1.3.14.

The reason I am looking for this is that I am getting an 'Error - 10403 occurred at AI Group config' error popping up when I run one of my .vi files. I suspect it may be due to an incorrect or incompatible driver version.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

Regards,

Matt

[NIquist]

Here is the link I would usually give:  NI DAQ Hardware Supported in Version of LabVIEW - NI

It has links to all the compatibility charts at the bottom.  However, I looked and none of the info goes back to LabVIEW 5.0 and the old PCI-MIO cards.

You may need to contact NI support...

[AnalogKid2DigitalMan]

According to my LabVIEW 5.0 manuals it ships with NI-DAQ 6.0 for Win95, NT, and Power Macintosh.

Found that version it on here:

https://download.ni.com/#support/daq/pc/ni-daq/6.0/

-AK2DM

[Kevin_Price]

Of note: LabVIEW 5.x predates the DAQmx driver.  You need to use the legacy driver sometimes known as "traditional NI-DAQ".

Also of note: unlike DAQmx, traditional NI-DAQ did NOT support parallel access to the driver.  So if you called a Read function that needed to wait to accumulate samples, it would block any other code from interacting with the driver and DAQ hardware until it completed.   Just to forewarn you if all your habits were developed under DAQmx where parallel access has always been supported.  It was a key factor in making me a somewhat early adopter of DAQmx.

-Kevin P

[rolfk]

Another issue: NI-DAQ 6.x almost certainly can't be installed on any modern Windows system. Even Windows XP is probably a big stretch. The latest NI-DAQ version is 7.4.1 and that was never officially released. 7.4 does not support 64-bit OSes at all. 7.4.1 added some 64-bit support but was never released since that part was prelimenary.

The latest NI-DAQ version supporting LabVIEW 5.0 and 5.1 is version 6.9.3. It only officially supports Windows 2000 and is the first version to add XP support, anything newer is most likely a roulette game and 64-bit OSes are totally out of question.

[DarkMattertnf]

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to thank you for your help and support, I was able to solve my issue by installing version 5.0.1 of LabVIEW onto the new PC. Apparently, the PC the client was using only had version 5.0.0 on it and that was the reason it was not cooperating.

My new issue is that the client now wants to migrate the system onto a new modern PC. My question now is, what is the modern equivalent of the PCI-MIO-16E-4 (0XAEA8A1) DAQ card? I suspect there may not be a like for like match but all I need is something that can handle two digital inputs and one analogue signal.

Regards,

Matt

[rolfk]

Well, nowadays PCs have PCIe slots if they have any at all and PCI is very hard to get. So there are a number of possible questions you need to ask:

- What PC is your client planning to buy?

- What OS and version?

- What plugin slots if any does it have?

- What is the actual speed requirement of those two digital inputs and one analogue input?

- What sort of analog signal do you measure?

Maybe a simple USB-6000 is more than enough for your use case?