Intall DAQ card without using MAX

[PauloM]

This was posted in the Multifunction DAQ board, but it is probably better here...

Hi,

I have an application where I can have multiple DAQ cards acquiring data. When a new board is installed, the application finds it and adapts it to the new system configuration. The only thing I don't like about it is that the user must open MAX in order for the board to have a device number and so it can be detected by my software.
Does anyone know how to do this without opening MAX?
I would like to detect that a new board was installed in the system and assign a device number to it.

Thanks in advance for all suggestions,
Paulo

[Meister]

Hi Paulo,

It can be quite irritating that you have to run MAX just to "activate" a freshly installed mio board using the trad NIDAQ driver. However there is something else you can do:

In your windows/systems32 directory you can find an application called NIAutoConfig.exe. Put this in your startup folder or call it from within your program and it will "activate" the DAQ hardware.

Let me know if this doesnt solve your problem.

Regards

Meister, NIDK