PCI 6503 installation problem

[Ed_Perkins]

When I boot up after installing my PCI-6503 card Windows XP wants to load drivers for two devices:  the PCI-6503 card and my existing PCI-GPIB (IEEE-488) card.   The PCI-GPIB card was working fine previous to this point, but now Windows insists the card is a network controller (not a GPIB controller) and needs a new driver loaded.  Here's the SW versions that are installed when I install the 6503 board and boot up:

Win XP, SP2; LabWindows/CVI 8.5.0, MAX 4.3.0.49152, NI-488.2 2.52, NI-DAQmx 8.6.1f0, NI-VISA 4.2

I know about the problems with NI-DAQmx 8.6.0f12 so I didn't load it when I loaded LabWindows/CVI (my CVI had the Nov. 2007 Driver CDs that contained NI-DAQmx 8.6.0f12).  Here's the order I loaded everything:

1. NI-488.2 SW then the PCI-GPIB card.  Driver loads OK and MAX sees the card.

2.LabWindows/CVI, but uncheck the NI-DAQmx when loading from the driver CDs.

3. NI-DAQmx 8.6.1f0 (downloaded from NI site)

(At this point the GPIB SW still works fine with LabWindows)

4. Install PCI-6503 card; on first bootup Windows wants to load a driver for the new "network controller".  Device Manager doesn't show the PCI-GPIB anymore either.  I can't find any way to convince Windows that the card isn't a network controller.

I can load the driver for the PCI-6503 if I skip over (Cancel) loading a driver for the "network controller".  However, after the 6503 driver loads the PC is immediately re-booted (indicating other problems exist).

Any help would be appreciated,

Ed Perkins

[NI-Bongo]

Hi Ed,

The best order to do the installations is:

1.  CVI (and other ADEs, such as LabVIEW)
2.  Device Drivers
3.  Hardware (both the GPIB card and the 6503)

Since it would take a long time to uninstall and reinstall everything, you may want to try swapping PCI slots in the computer before doing any reinstallation.  I'm also curious: 

When you are done configuring the 6503, does the computer immediately reset on its own?  I believe that's what you were saying in your first post.  On this reboot, does it again try to configure both the "network" GPIB card and the 6503?  Let me know and I'll try to help.

[Ed_Perkins]

John -

Thanks for the reply.  The problem turned out to be my motherboard.  It has 8 PCI slots divided into two groups of four.  One group of slots worked fine, the other group  had all the problems.  I was fortunate to have a second identical computer to reload all the software and hardware - no problems.

Cheers,

Ed Perkins

Honeywell SW Engineer