Windows XP - SP 3
I've been trying to get Measurement and Automation Explorer 4.6 to recognize my Stingray digital cameras using a firewire 800 card. I had it working for some time just so you know I was developing with one camera. I then switched out my SGII PCI firewire 800 2-port with a SGII PCI firewire 800 3-port card. The reason for that is the 2-port version's connectors were too close together and I could not install both cables. The 3-port version allowed me the room to plug my cables to connectors 1 AND 3.
My system did recognized one of the two cameras after I installed the 3-port card and I was off and running. I then started trying to figure out why it did not see the second camera and then... "HELL ON EARTH" for the past 2+ days. Everything I tried made things worse and now I cannot get one camera to be recognized.
I've tried removing the PCI card, rebooting, removing the NI-iMAQdx drivers and Measurement and Automation Explorer 4.6, reinstalling (rebooting between each step), going through NI's troubleshooting suggestions, Trying different IEEE 1394 drivers, etc. At one point it saw two cameras, but when I would right-click on them to switch from the generic 1394 camera I'd get the hour-glass mouse pointer and would have to hard stop the application becuase it was not responding.
At this point when I enter I get
The exception occurred in the NIMax process in the function (Unknown).
See this file for details: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\National Instruments\MAX\Logs\20091205_120053-NIMax-00000978.log
or similar ones. If I ignore them and enter Measurement and Automation Explorer 4.6 and then click on Devices and Interfaces the application closes by itself.
