Unsupported NI-VISA while installing 2012: My system has been Win 7 all the way

[Mark_Ramsdale]

Hi

While installing LabVIEW 2012 device drivers I got the message that I have an unsupported version of NI-VISA.

I looked over the link the installer gave me Link from installer [broken link removed]

This link is referring to issues coming from XP or Vista.  My system has always been a Win 7 system.

I installed all the NXT stuff on my PC, and I also uninstalled VISA, both using the uninstall utilities.  Still can't install the device drivers.

To my knowledge I have never installed anything related to VISA that did not come from my disks.  I have LabVIEW versions 7, 8.2, 2010, 2011 and now 2012. 

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By the way, according to the link above, I am supposed to uninstall all my LabVIEW.  Ha Ha, that is not going to happen. 🙂  Unacceptable.

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I put in a trouble ticket and will post if I get a resolution. I'm hoping some of you might have seen this.

[Mark_Ramsdale]

Update, no solution yet.

It was suggested to install all the drivers except VISA, fine, that worked.  Then the suggestion was to install VISA from the download from the website rather than the disk.  No resolution, same issue.  I verified I have no VISA installed, and I have removed LabVIEW 7 and 8.2.

[SunshineDesign]

I installed LV2012 and all the latest drivers on a new Win 7 64 bit machine. I only had a problem when I had previously load the database connectivity tools and then loaded the new one on top of it. It caused some code issues that I had to manually correct by relinking one of the VI's. I had more issue with the NI-5680-01 Power Sensor which is not Win 7 64 bit functional yet and a show stopper. My point is that installing over old drivers may be the source of the problem. I have it working OK on my win7 64 system. Good luck with yours.

[Mark_Ramsdale]

Well, I had to bite the bullet and uninstall everything.  568 components to uninstall.  Luckily I could walk away from my PC.   After which, everything in LabVIEW 12 installed correctly.  In the end it seemed easier than trying a lot of "things".  Seems like this may have been a one off thing.

FWIW, 🙂