I recently purchased and just installed a PCI-6014 in a new Dell Optiplex running Windows 2000 (sp2, we have stayed at sp2 due to problems we have had with sp3, sp4). On this same machine I have LabVIEW 7.0 with all the bells, including NI-DAQ 7.0. When I put the pci card in for the first time (and every one of many times I have restarted since) I NEVER have seen the "new hardware found" message come up. That's bad sign one. And the hardware device manager doesn't see it either (I think that would follow from no new hardware being detected..) Then I have run MAX 3.0 (also on the machine) and all it finds is this bizarre thing called "PXI System" under devices and interfaces. I also have an eight port serial card in this machine which MAX does see. I eventually removed both the Serial card and the PCI-6014 (daq card) and even after a restart the "PXI system" device or whatever STILL shows up under devices and interfaces... So I just don't know what that is?? Any help there would be appreciated.. So question one is what is "PXI system" likely referring to?? ..And to say more about it when you click the plus sign next to the "PXI system" entry it shows what appears to be a VISA resource name of PXIO::MEMACC. But again that shows up even with the card removed.
Back to the PCI card seemingly not being recognized I also read somewhere that there could be issues with this card and the new version of NI-DAQ 7.0. So I uninstalled that version from the machine and put on the version that came with the PCI card, NI-DAQ 6.9.3. But same story... Windows doesn't see it and unless this PXI system is somehow referring to this PCI card (??) then MAX doesn't seem to be seeing it either... Any advice on how to get this card up and running or how to truly troubleshoot to see if the card was dead out of the box?? ...Something I have never had happen before and somehow I still think it is just some silliness on my part...
Lastly, when I looked for the documentation for this card amont the long, long list of daq boards listed in the NI-DAQ software, nowhere did I find an entry for this PCI-6014 card. And I looked carefully. Does that mean I have a horribly old or outdated card??
Any help would be appreciated... thanks...
