Install hardware support for LabView

[foadsf]

Follwoing the issue I have with missing NI-DAQmx Driver support for LabVIEW 2017, I was trying to reinstall LabView, to see if I have made any mistakes. Apparently there is a step where the installers asks for device drivers which I had skipped before:

so my questions are:

1. is this the reason I get the error for missing drivers

2. How should I locate the drivers? what address I should point the installer to? I just installed this driver from NI website

[Bob_Schor]

It may be the case that (as with all previous releases of LabVIEW) the 64-bit drivers are not (yet) available.  If you don't require the memory space, install LabVIEW 32-bit and its drivers.

Bob Schor

[foadsf]

so basically if I uninstall all the NI software I have on my PC and install NI-DAQmx from here, and LabView 32-bit, the problem will be solved?

P.S. I had already reported the issue I had with missing drivers here

[Bob_Schor]

Sigh.  I happened to bring my laptop to work, on which I had recently installed LabVIEW 2017 from the Academic Kit (not from downloads), so I pulled it out and plugged in a USB-6002.  It was immediately recognized (the funny Windows 10 "I see a USB device" sound).  But MAX wouldn't run properly -- it was extremely slow, didn't enumerate all of the System parameters, and had other problems.  A quick check revealed that most of my NI Services were not running.  So this evening, I uninstalled everything LabVIEW (fortunately, it was only 2016 and 2017) and started to reload.  There are bugs (though, fortunately, nowhere near as bad as LabVIEW 2011).  I'm documenting the missing Services, and hope to get NI to "pay attention".

Bob Schor

[cbutcher]

The driver you linked to is the Runtime installer. You need the development drivers if you want to write code with DAQmx.

A note from the description section of that link:

Install Application Development Environments, such as NI LabVIEW or Microsoft Visual Studio®, before installing NI-DAQmx. NI-DAQmx 17.0.0 supports the following NI Application Development Environment versions:

Go ahead and 'Decline support' when installing LabVIEW (this message has confused me every time I install LabVIEW) and install the driver afterwards.

[foadsf]

Thanks for the reply. I had actually solved the issue by reinstalling the drivers again as explained here. but two questions:

1. why 17.0.0 and not 17.1.0?
2. why we have to decline? there must be a correct way to locate the drivers even if we had them installed in advance. that's actually what I wanted to know and expect NI support to answer!

[cbutcher]

1. Sorry - I should have found a newer link

2. No idea. Works for me and thought it might work for you.

[foadsf]

this is the email I got from NI:

With regards to installing hardware support for LabVIEW, the file dialog that you are mentioning is for indicating where the device driver installer is located, which should be included in the Device Driver CD (if you have one) or the installer that is downloaded when you install it from our website. It would not be possible with the NI-DAQmx Runtime driver that you seem to mention that you installed but only possible if you have the NI-DAQmx installer. When you download the NI-DAQmx executable and unzip it, the installer should be placed in the following directory where <version number> indicates the version of DAQmx installed:

C:\National Instruments Downloads\NI-DAQmx\<version number>

This is what it should be pointed to. Also, all our download links for drivers indicate in the 'Description' section to ensure that LabVIEW should be installed prior to installing any of the drivers. Hence why that particular solution also worked for you.