program does not match the driver

[rjiao1978]

Hollo, sorry to bother everybody! I have a big problem with our DAQ programs and my situation is as followings:

Our lab bought a new NI-6251 DAQ card which can only use the NI-DAQmx drivers but our old
programs are corresponding to the tranditional NI-DAQ driver.
so now I can open these old programs in LabVIEW 8.5, but I still can not find the new DAQ card in these programs and
can not gain any data. Would you please give me some commons?
Thanks a lot!
Rong

[Dennis_Knutson]

What exactly do you mean "can not find the new DAQ card in these programs"? As you said yourself, the DAQ card can not be used with the traditional DAQ driver so you will have to rewrite the program using DAQmx functions.

[rjiao1978]

thank you! But can I ask you another favor. I have the older programs now need to be open by LabVIEW 7.1 but it's too old. So would you please help me to convert them to the version 7.1, thanks a lot!
ROng

[Dennis_Knutson]

I can't. Since this is unrelated to the original question, you should a new question if no one responds here.

[rjiao1978]

hello, sorry to bother you!
Is there possible to install the Traditional NI-DAQ Compatibility Vis to make our old programs written by Ni-DAQ still useful with the new card only driven by NI-DAQmx?
thanks!
rong

[Dennis_Knutson]

Maybe. The compatability VIs are not going to work 100% of the time. There's just to many differences but they may be fine if your old programs were not doing anything very complex. You can certainly try them but in the long run, you will be better off with a rewrite.