What can prevent NI-DAQ from installing on a computer?

[duane]

What can prevent NI-DAQ from installing on a computer? I have been using Labview/NI-DAQ for 7 years and have never had this problem before. The s/w does not appear to be installed on machine but when I run the installation cd it does not install anything.Windows NT is the OS. Labview 6.1 and ni-daq 6.9.2 are the versions.

[DD]

What are the symptoms that it is not installed?

"duane" <x@no.email> wrote in message news:176466@exchange.ni.com...
> What can prevent NI-DAQ from installing on a computer? I have been using
Labview/NI-DAQ for 7 years and have never had this problem before. The s/w
does not appear to be installed on machine but when I run the installation
cd it does not install anything.Windows NT is the OS. Labview 6.1 and ni-daq
6.9.2 are the versions.

[duane]

The symptoms are 1)most of the menu items that are normally installed are not present, 2)daq boards do not appear in the MAX display after REFRESH has been done,
and 3)there does not appear any help item under MAX help menu for ni-daq

[AlanArmstead]

Duane,
What menu items are you referring to? Are your boards being recognized by the operating system? Did you have your other software installed before the driver was installed? FYI, proper order of install:
1)NI software (LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, etc.)
2)NI-DAQ Driver
3)Hardware
Is there a particular reason you are sticking with an older version of the driver? You can get the most recent version of the driver free at: http://digital.ni.com/softlib.nsf/webcategories/85256410006C055586256BBB002C128D?opendocument&node=132060_US
I would recommend installing the most recent version of the driver (includes the most recent version of Measurement & Automation Explorer). That should get you up and running.
-Alan A.

[duane]

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@duane wrote:
What can prevent NI-DAQ from installing on a computer? I have been using Labview/NI-DAQ for 7 years and have never had this problem before. The s/w does not appear to be installed on machine but when I run the installation cd it does not install anything.Windows NT is the OS. Labview 6.1 and ni-daq 6.9.2 are the versions.

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I was able to remedy problem by using windows explorer to view ni-daq cd and run the nidaq.msi in the nidaq dir. Going this route caused a user window to appear that allows you to remove all / repair etc. I selected the remove all option which then removed whatever had been installed on previous installation. I then went the usual route of control panel\settings\remove s/w to remove the MAX. I then went back and ran setup.exe in the nidaq cd root dir and everything installed properly. The key was the first step mentioned above. The control panel\settings\remove s/w display did not show ni-daq evidently due to prior improper installation which prevented uninstalling this way. The autorun feature of the ni-daq cd did not deal with the improper installation because it would simply say it successfully installed when it did not install any thing. The original installation that improperly installed the ni-daq was when I installed the labview full development system. Everything else installed correctly at that time except for ni-daq. Who Knows?