No option to simulate cRIO device after installing Labview and RT/FPGA Modules from downloads (missing driver support?)

[BradNC]

Well, heck.  No change after the reinstall.  Just to be clear, what i did was the following:

Uninstalled:

NI-CompactRIO 3.5.1

NI-CompactRIO Module Support 3.5.1

NI-RIO 3.5.1

NI-RIO 3.5.1 driver for Teal-Time Embedded Targets

NI R Series 3.5.0

Then, I executed autorun.exe within the NIRIO351 folder (downloaded), and took the default install options.  After installation and restart, I opened up a new project and tried to add a new target.  I got the same options as shown in the original post.

I also verified that I do have both the Real-Time and FPGA modules installed, and they do show up on the "About Labview" screen.

I could go for a clean sweep and uninstall/reinstall all NI software, if there's any chance that might do any good (is there any chance that would do any good?).

Any thoughts?

[AdnanZ · Accepted solution]

What version of LabVIEW do you have on your machine? I am assuming it's 2011? The latest version of the NI-RIO driver is 4.0 which supports that version of LabVIEW. Please do verify whether 3.5.1 is supporting whatever version of LabVIEW you have on your machine.

[BradNC]

Adnan--

Yep, realized that issue last night, and was able to get it working on another machine.  I'm going to upgrade to NI-RIO 4.0 on the computer here in the lab, and will post the results as soon as I'm done.  Pretty sure we've got this one licked.

[BradNC]

That was it.  I'm up and running now.  Couldn't tell you how I managed to download the wrong version in the first place...probably a caffeine-related issue.

Thanks Adnan for your help.  I'm off to write some code now.