Problem with an old version of LabVIEW 4.0.1

[Raven3182]

Hi,

I'm rather new to this, so I appreiciate any help that you can give me. Our lab has an old computer running Windows 95 and LabVIEW v. 4.0.1. I would like to take one of the progams on this computer and run it on a newer computer in a different lab. This newer computer is running Windows 2000. I installed LabVIEW 4.0.1 on the Win2000 machine, and then copied the needed file onto this machine. However, when I try to run the program, I get the following error messages:

Error 7 occurred at Open File+.vi: Open File
Possible reasons:
LabVIEW: File not found.
OR
NI-488: Non-existant Board.

after that error I get this one:

Error - 10401 occured at AO Group Config.
Possible reasons:
NI-DAQ:LV The specif
ied device is not a National Instruments product, or the driver does not support the device (e.g., the driver was released before the device was supported).

Now, there are a couple reasons that I can think of that would cause these problems. First, LabVIEW 4.0.1 is not compatable with Windows 2000. Second, I had to install the Windows 2000 driver for my PCI-MIO-16XE-10 board, and this driver is not compatable with LabVIEW 4.0.1. Third, that there is something else that I need to copy over from the old computer. Once again, thank you to anyone that can help me out.

[rolfk]

Raven3182 wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm rather new to this, so I appreiciate any help that you can give
> me. Our lab has an old computer running Windows 95 and LabVIEW v.
> 4.0.1. I would like to take one of the progams on this computer and
> run it on a newer computer in a different lab. This newer computer is
> running Windows 2000. I installed LabVIEW 4.0.1 on the Win2000
> machine, and then copied the needed file onto this machine. However,
> when I try to run the program, I get the following error messages:
>
> Error 7 occurred at Open File+.vi: Open File
> Possible reasons:
> LabVIEW: File not found.
> OR
> NI-488: Non-existant Board.
>
> after that error I get this one:
>
> Error - 10401 occured at AO Group Config.
> Possible reasons:
> NI-DAQ:LV The
specified device is not a National Instruments
> product, or the driver does not support the device (e.g., the driver
> was released before the device was supported).
>
> Now, there are a couple reasons that I can think of that would cause
> these problems. First, LabVIEW 4.0.1 is not compatable with Windows
> 2000. Second, I had to install the Windows 2000 driver for my
> PCI-MIO-16XE-10 board, and this driver is not compatable with LabVIEW
> 4.0.1. Third, that there is something else that I need to copy over
> from the old computer. Once again, thank you to anyone that can help
> me out.

You pretty much summed it up. NI-DAQ which is compatible with LabVIEW
4.0 won't support Windows 2000 almost certainly. And NI-DAQ supporting
Windows 2000 won't have VI support for LabVIEW 4.0. There was a
significant change in the way LabVIEW interfaced to NI-DAQ between
NI-DAQ 5.x and 6.x which happens to be around LabVIEW 4.x as well. So
you are most probably stuck with either a LabVIEW
upgrade or downgrading
to a Windows 9x computer.

Rolf Kalbermatter