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Can't add MXI Chassis connected to RT PXI to a LV Project

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I have an MXI chassis connected to an RT PXI.  On the host machine, I can see both the RT PXI and the MXI chassis and can access the MXI FPGA to flash a bitfile, etc.

 

But in my LV project, I cannot add the MXI FPGA target.  I can only add the RT PXI but attempting to add the MXI target under the PXI yield no FPGA device found.



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Hello,

 

Which MXI chassis model, PXI chassis, PXI RT controller and LabVIEW version are you using?

 

Do you have LabVIEW FPGA module and LabVIEW RT module installed?

 

Regards

 

Gustave

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PXI Chassis: PXIe-1085

PXI Controller: PXIe-8880

MXI Card: PXIe-8364

MXI Chassis: NI-9157

 

LabVIEW 2017 SP1 f1

LabVIEW RT 2017

LabVIEW FPGA 2017

PXI Platform Services Runtime and Config 18.0

NI-RIO 17.6



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So I don't know for sure what the issue was, I think whoever set this system up when it arrived in shipping, connected everything in whatever order and had the PXI powered before the MXI chassis was connected.  This would I think cause the BIOS to configure the PCI bus incorrectly.  So I removed power entirely from the PXI and rebooted witht he MXI chassis already connected and powered.

 

But I also removed all software from the PXI controller and re-installed so it's possible the cause was somewhere there.

 

In either case, after doing the above two actions, the MXI chassis now is recognized in LV.



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