nidaq winxp daqcard IRQ problems

[crazed]

Just moved DAQCard-AI-16XE-50 to new HP laptop with WinXP. MAX is complaining that the IRQ is not responding. Please help.

[JeffAndle]

You too, huh?

DAQcard 500 and 1200 also not working on a new pavillion with XP. App Eng. is doing some testing for me to see what issue is.

I cannot separate the ISA IRQ of the card from the PCI IRQ of the O2Micro cardbus interface (both insist on IRQ 11).

Some usefull reading is
A potential Cardbus issue is

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/3efedde4322fef19862567740067f3cc/066cae594c0b44e886256a530058f06a?OpenDocument

This implies that the 516 will not solve my issue:

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/3efedde4322fef19862567740067f3cc/6b7bd73e3859c93386256b3a005bab79?OpenDocument

This tells me it is a hardware issue as the 6062E (and all the E-series) are supposed to be XP compatible.

http://exchange.ni.com/servlet/ProcessRequest
?RHIVEID=101&RNAME=ViewQuestion&HOID=50650000000800000001650000&ECategory=Measurement+Hardware.Multifunction+I%2FO


You have convinced me that the HP Pavillion is going to have the 30-day return exercized, because if your card is not working, neither will the 6024E, the 516 or the 500.

[crazed]

Thanks for the reply Jeff. I too came to the same conclusion. I spent a good part of a day trying to separate the Cardbus IRQs from that for the DaqCard.
Googling came up with some notebooks (Toshiba was mentioned once) that allow you to turn on a compatibility mode in BIOS for the cardbus that effectively drops it back to PCMCIA and non-shared IRQs.

NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS TAKE NOTE
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This seems like a big problem that is only going to get worse with modern notebooks. I was surprised to find NO NOTICE OF THIS POTENTIAL PROBLEM when I bought my DAQCard. It would be useful to have a selection of notebook vendors or CardBus chipsets that it is known to work on.
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I
am sure a good portion of the blame belongs to HP and their tendency to make everything as incompatible as possible. Please keep me informed is you here anything different or find a notebook that it actually works on.

Mike

[Filipe A.]

Hello;

The first thing to check is the version of the NI-DAQ driver you are using. The best way to work with WXP is by using the latest version of the driver available on www.ni.com, the 6.9.3 version.

Second, make sure the socket driver installed on your machine is the native Microsoft drivers. Some LapTop vendors work with third party socket drivers. If that is the case, NI-DAQ might be having difficulties to communicate with it. The solution for that is to uninstall the socket driver you are using, and install the native one from the Windows installation CD.

Hope this helps.
Filipe A.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

[JeffAndle]

The Pavillion ZE4100 ships with microsoft pcmcia.sys driver. It uses the O2Micro chip and O2Micro is looking at a register dump. I was unfortunately trying to use a 500 and a 1200 DAQcard, so there IS no fix till my 516's come in.

Looks like HP and 6.9.3 and DAQcards are going to be a problem.

Anyone used Acer TravelMates?

[Eoin Bambury]

Hi,
I am having the same problem with a DAQCard 6036E and a HP ze4120s laptop. Unfortunately I am stuck with the laptop. Do you think that a DAQPad would work or will there be the same IRQ issues?
Eoin

[fabs]

I have same problems! Please help urgently!!

I just purchased a COMPAQ presario, os WinXP.
When I try to install a DAQcard 1200, even using the latest NI driver version (6.9.3), the DAQ does not respond to the IRQ address.
I tryed also to delete the resident pcmcia.sys and install the WinXP default driver, without success.

Note that the assigment is IRQ11 to both DAQ 1200 and O2Micro OZ6912 (no chance to modify assigment)

Awaiting any comments
fabs

[Biomedical Signal Processing]

Try this

[Xose]

A great deal of new computers (DELL specifically), have bus controllers that do not accept anymore ISA interrupts. Is there any PCMCIA ni DAQ card that would work on PCI interrupts???

[atomwave]

this fix worked. Now my ni daq card AI-16XE-50 works.

I had the same problem everyone above has mentioned with a new compaq presario using win xp and an 02micro 0z6912 cardbus controler. Whatever "updater" is, thanks. NI should advertize it. Is there documentation?

Note: I downloaded it, changed its suffix to .exe and ran it. Then, after reboot, MAX worked without error, and my labview programs which had caused a hard freeze now work fine.

- atomwave.