See also http://forums.ni.com/t5/Machine-Vision/How-do-I-get-LV2009-to-see-my-PCIE-1433/td-p/3132887. Possibly this issue is related. In that discussion, I was trying to get the driver for the PCIe-1433 installed. We found that even though I'm using LV 2009, I needed VAS 2010 March to get the driver.
So: now Device Manager sees the framegrabber, which is progress, and the VI I got from a vendor loads without complaining (an earlier problem - the VI couldn't find any of the IMAQ vi's). But, two symptoms:
1. When I start the VI (or run the executable the vendor provided) I get a message in IMAQ Init.vi "The requested FPGA bitstream file could not be found." The string wired into IMAQ Init is "Img0". I'm guessing this is something I need to configure in NIMAX, so I try to start it, BUT...
2. NI-MAX either goes away while/after "loading plugins" or it pops up a message that is has "detected an unexpected error". Details box says the exception occurred in NIMax process in function (unknown). It directs me to a log (I'll attach the log and dump file). I click continue and it again goes away while/after loading plugins.
I just noticed another thing: when the error pop-up points me to a log file, it's directing to a file that it created the LAST time it failed, then it creates a new.dmp and .txt file. When it fails AGAIN, it renames the .txt file .log.
Anyway all this looks to me like a version compatibility issue. I'm downloading the system driver set for August 2010, thinking I need to attempt to match the VAS version. That download is at least 2 hours from completing, so I thought I'd see if I'm on the right track.
Thanks!
MADman
