CVI Real Time PC Startup DLL Delay

[ndo]

Hello,

I have been experiencing issues of long delays when booting my real-time PC directly into my application.  The same code, on the same system will take between 30 seconds to boot one day and 3 minutes to boot on a different day.  Has anyone else experienced this problem?  Does anyone know the steps that the real-time OS takes when booting?  Any guess as to the cause?  Any insight is appreciated...

NDo

[Smootastic]

Hi NDo,

Sometimes the boot time can change depending on any unnecessary drivers you may have installed on the PC.  You can check what software is installed by looking at KnowledgeBase 2HEEPEZ8:  Installing Software on Real-Time (RT) Series PXI Hardware.

[ndo]

Sorry for taking so long to respond. 

The strange thing is, we are running two identical real-time PCs and one boots up immediately while the other takes upto 3 minutes.  I did find a thread discussing some thing similar happending on Windows applications:

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=180&thread.id=33711&view=by_date_ascending&page=1

I don't know if this is the cause, but I will try it out.

Ndo