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PCI-6221 cont. measurement crosstalk by OS?

I've got a PCI-6221 (37-pin) PCI card. Doing closed loop control (might be out of spec's, but it works fine). Whenever (it is reapetable) I do some User interaction (independent of the LV app) such as opening a file, the whole reading screws up. It seems like cross-talk on the PCI bus or other interference inside the PC housing (it is an industrial PC with WinXP). I've some very recent DAQmx drivers installed. I also did switch the card location from next to the GPU over to just have a RS232 serial interface card as neighbour, no effect.

For me this is a show stopper at the moment and I am behind schedule right now (and at customers site). Any code please in LV 7.1 if possible (there should be some new licenses at site around I could use if necessary, but a no-go for the App).

 

To reproduce: I do countinued aquisition mode with 20 samples per reading at 100kHz and average over those 20 readings (and out of these I even do a U10 -> like median but it is the 10% level/index instead of the 50%). But the signal seems to go somewhere (I try to counter it via closed loop control, so I did not really see yet what happened in first place).

 

Well, it is really strange as it happens when I open a file, but not when the hard drive is active (tested using defragment disk) or is interfered by any cables outside the PC of Monitor, mouse or keyboard (I pluged them off).

 

Felix

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Hey Felix,

 

It's very unlikely that your system has a crosstalk between PCI Interfaces.

I'm wondering about the performance of your VI/Applikation and the whole system.

Did you also check the iteration timing of the loop when you do the file access?

 

 

Christian

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Hi Christian,

 

thank you for your fast response.

 

I actually fixed it very fast, I just had to set the control loop vi to highest priority (time critical) to stop windows consuming my resources. I just didn't thought about that option as overworked as I was.

 

Felix

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