Problems installing 8.6

[PaulG.]

I had trouble installing 8.6 over the weekend. After 4 attempts it still wouldn't do the final restart and activate. I'm not getting any error messages. Anyone else have any trouble installing 8.6? I'm running Vista. Previous version of LV is 8.5. This same set of disks installed 8.6 just fine onto another PC.

[Hillman]

HI Paul.

Thanks for the post and I hope your well today.

I am sorry to read your having a problem with installing LabVIEW 8.6.

What steps are you taking when your installing - it doesn't seem your DVD is corrupt if it worked to install LabVIEW on another machine.

By order - I mean, are you installing everything of the disks.. maybe try just installing LabVIEW 8.6, then Modules, then Drivers (with a rebot between the steps)?

Are the machines of similar specifications? 

Did the machine have previous versions of NI software installed?  - do they still work? 

You get no error message - do you have to manual reset your machine then? 

Please let me know the extra detail and I'll keep looking into potential problems you may have faced, 

[PaulG.]

Thanks for the quick response. I'll try your steps later today since I'm not at that machine right now. I'll get back to you.