"Add-On Software" CD for LV6.1 won't install.

[BenCh01]

Following NI Forums Knight Dan Knutson's advice to install a LV version earlier than 8.5 in order to convert 40 VIs written in LV5.1 to LV8.5.1, I attempted to install LabVIEW 6.1. There is a CD that won't install. It is the "Add-On Software" LV6.1 CD. The CD does not autoinstall when it's put in the CD drive. When I right-click the Autorun > Install icon, the installer returns, "Error. Installation failed." The CD has LabVIEW, and Measurement Studio folders, an autorun setup information file and and Eagle icon. There is no setup.exe on the installation CD main directory. Could anyone please suggest how to install the LabVIEW and Measurement Studio folders? I tried to go into the individual sub-folders of the "Add-On Software" CD, but when I reached LabVIEW\Enterprise\SPC\Install\disk1\ and click Setup.exe, I get "Setup Installation Error. Setup has detected that UnInstallShield is in use. Please close UnInstallShield and restart Setup. Error 432." Running MSCONFIG to remove isUninst.exe from the Startup folder fails because no IsUninst.exe application runs on startup, rebooting does not help, it's not an Administrator issue because my account already has Administrator privileges, and searching the Internet does not give useful clues. Could an expert please solve either of these two problems? Thanks, BenCh01

[Dennis_Knutson]

You somehow managed to get my name wrong and you could have just posted to your original thread. Nor does what you are doing make much sense. If you had selected any add-on from the main installer, you would be prompted to insert this cd. Measurement Studio is not part of any LabVIEW installation and in any case, you would not need it to upgrade your old program. What you would certainly need to do is to select to install the DAQ driver for the functions in your old code. These will need to be replaced when you upgrade to 8.5 and use the cRIO hardware. The cRIO cannot be programmed with the DAQ functions in your old code.

[BenCh01]

Dennis,

How would I "select to install the DAQ driver" for the LV5.1 functions? I have LV6.1, LV8.2 and LV8.5.1. Is the cRIO designed for NI DAQmx rather than Traditional NI DAQ? How do I start DAQ Assistant in LV8.5.1, in order to duplicate the functionality of the Traditional NI DAQ code? I appreciate your commitment to solving users' problems.

BenCh01

[Dennis_Knutson]

With 8.2 or 8.5, there is a Device Driver cd/dvd I believe. When you use that, there will be a list of hardware drivers that you can select from. You would want to install both DAQmx and 'traditional DAQ driver'. I don't remember 6.1 at all but there should be a similar device driver cd. The difference is that there would only be a single DAQ driver to install and it would not be called 'traditional' since DAQmx was not released then. Please note that if you have already installed LabVIEW 8.5 and try to install 6.1 and the drivers that come with it, you may have problems since all of the drivers from 8.1 are newer. It's often necessary to uninstall all of the newer versions first.

[Pcorcs]

Hello All,

I may be confused on the topic of a Compact RIO integrated with LabVIEW version 5.1? Version 5.1 pre-dates the release of Compact RIO hardware. The Compact RIO platform uses neither NI-DAQmx, nor the Traditional NI-DAQ driver, it is built on a separate driver platform in NI-RIO. May I inquire as to why version 8.5.1 was selected for the upgrade process, and not the latest version in 2009 SP1? 

As you may have experienced already, the process of upgrading across 10 releases of the LabVIEW development environment may present issues, as the environment has been significantly changed through the years. For additional information on the upgrade process please see the following information:

How to Upgrade or Revert a VI to a Different Version of LabVIEW
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/8387

Upgrading to the Latest Version of LabVIEW
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/7417

More realistically, does this application contain highly customized code, or functions, that are not integrated into the newer platform? With regard to hardware integration, if you intend on working with the Compact RIO platform, you will be working to develop brand new code using the LabVIEW Real-Time (and possibly LabVIEW FPGA) Module, as any code written in LabVIEW 5.1 will not support the Compact RIO platform. With respect to any additional hardware that may have been used, you will need to verify the device support in either the NI-DAQmx or Traditional DAQ releases, this information can be found at http://www.ni.com/support. I believe time spent developing on a supported platform, for the new hardware set, may be more effective than looking to directly upgrade the 5.1 code.

Please post any additional questions you may have.