"Error Deleting Device" when removing PCI-7334 in MAX

[Jay Sethi]

I added a Virtual NI-Motion device by doing the follwoing in MAX:

Right click "Devices and Interfaces"->Create New->Virtual NI Motion Devices->Virtual 7334

Now my hardware has arrived, but when I installed the card in a PCI slot, no new devices were listed. There was only one entry, with the device status of "Device is not responding or has been removed from the system". I wanted to remove this device, but was unable to. I do the following:

Right click "PCI-7334 (1)"->Remove Device

After answering yes to the dialogue, I get a pop-up that says "Error Deleting Device". How can I get around this problem?

Thanks for the help!

[Wes_P]

Hi Jay,

It sounds like there might have been some sort of corruption in the data file in Measurement and Automation Explorer.  I recommend deleting the Data folder in the following directory:

...Documents and Settings\ All Users\Application Data\National Instruments\MAX

This will simply cause MAX to reinitialize its settings.  Any saved information such as Tasks and Configurations will be lost though.

Thanks,

Wes P.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

[Brian@Channel]

Thanks for the reply Wes. I did this, and MAX is now functioning as usual!