PCI1200 under WinXP?

[tdurand]

I went into our storage room and found a spare PCI1200 board that I'd like to install on a system running LabView 7.1 on WinXP. Is it possible?

I saw a few warnings at various times saying that the PCI1200 is being replaced with the PCI6025E, and that to use the PCI1200 may involve some work or special configuration.

In the PC, I've got an old PCI-GPIB card that I'm using, but there are no other DAQ cards or any other measurement cards. Future mods are not a concern, so if I need to install the old NI-DAQ 6.6 driver that came with the PCI1200 over the LabView 7.1 DAQ drivers, it would be ok.

I used the PCI1200 years ago, but now I'm having some difficulty getting the board recognized by XP. In MAX3.1, it sees the board, but doesn't know
what it is, and doesn't know how to configure it. (Looking for a cntrller.ini file, but can't find it.)

Help?

Thanks,
Tom

[Doug_Norman]

Hi Tom,

I have done this, but it takes a bit of work. The issue is that NI-DAQ versions that support the device predate LabVIEW 7.1, so they don't know how to install anything into LabVIEW 7.1. I used NI-DAQ 6.9.3, but I think 6.6 would also work. Here is what I did:
1. Uninstall NI-DAQ 7.x
2. Install LabVIEW 6.1 (hopefully you have a copy of this)
3. Install NI-DAQ 6.9.3
4. Copy the DAQ files from the LabVIEW 6.1 directory to the LabVIEW 7.1 directory. This would include the Daq folder within vi.lib and the daq folder within the examples folder (if you want examples).

To get the old examples to show up in the new NI Example Finder can also be done. Let me know if you need that to also happen.

Best Regards,
Doug Norman

[tdurand]

Thanks, Doug.

Yesterday I tried doing this. I ran into a few problems. I've got a couple questions:

When I uninstall NI-DAQ 7.x, do I also uninstall MAX and/or any GPIB drivers? (I'm away from my computer this week, so I don't have the exact names..) But when I tried it yesterday, I tried uninstalling the two NI-DAQ packages. I'm guessing I need to uninstall more. For instance, when I'm done, should I end up with MAX 3.x or MAX 2.x?

Do I have to configure the DAQ channels at a certain point, or can I do it once the entire installation is over?

My GPIB functionality shouldn't be affected when this is done, right?

Also, is the reason for installing LabView 6.1 just to get the examples? Or do I need to install it in a particular order so
that it configures something at the right point? (In other words, if I grab examples from another computer running LabView 6.1, I should be ok, right?)

Thanks, Doug.

-Tom

[Doug_Norman]

Hi Tom,

I'm not exactly sure on the MAX issue, but here is what I would try. I would uninstall MAX, and try using whatever version comes with the older DAQ driver. If your GPIB driver needs a newer MAX, it can install it afterward.

Installing LabVIEW 6.1 is important. The reason is the old DAQ driver wants to install not just examples, but more importantly the palette VIs. These are the VIs that talk to the driver. In theory you could do an old DAQ driver installation, then just copy all these files from some other LabVIEW 6.1 machine, but I haven't tried that. I'm not sure if the the old DAQ installer needs to see LabVIEW 6.1 on your machine for some reason.

I would configure DAQ channels after the entire installation is finish
ed.

Best Reagrds,
Doug Norman

[olaf-petersen]

I have just the same Problemand i think i just need one step to finisch.

I used PCI 1200 and LabView6.1 and i want to ubgrate to 7.1 So i install 7.1 in the normalway, with the MessureExplorer3.1.1

then i unistall the NIDaqmx and the NiDaq tratitionel driver. Now i can install the Ni daq driver 6.9.3 from the site.

• install LabView 7.1
• install MessureExplorer3.1.1
• uninstall Driver NI-daqMx
• uninstall Driver NI-daq Traditionel (i think it was V1.3)
• install Driver Ni-daq 6.9.3
• copy some DAQ-files in don't know

This works fine. The old LabView works in the Normal way. The MessureExplorer find the Card and i use the old VirtuellChanels.

Now my problem is,that LabView 7.1 dont understand what i wand, and i don't know which Daq-Folders i had to copy.

I tried to copy the hole Vi.lib, but this make nothing work.
Can u tell me wich DAQ Files i had to Copy? and how i reverse the overwriten vi.lib

[olaf-petersen]

I need help to let the old PCI 1200 Card work with LabView 7.1.!!!

I have all WInXP, LabView 6.1, LabView7.1, PCI-Driver 6.9.3   and not much time