pxi-6713 no supported device found

[Aidan..]

Hi,

I've recently purchased 13 pxi-6713 DAQ cards and a pxi-1044 chassis to put them in.

We are using a PXI-8360 card to communicate with the chassis from the lab PC.

The DAQs are detected in MAX but when we use the DAQ assistant to create an analog output voltage channel, it can find no supported devices.

We are running labview 8.5 on a windows 7 machine, if that helps at all.

[Chris-NI]

Hi Aidan,

I am sorry to hear you are having trouble.  Unfortunately, LabVIEW 8.5 is not supported on Windows 7.  Please take a look at the following two pages which show LabVIEW compatibility with Windows operating systems and also with DAQmx drivers:

Windows Version Compatibility with LabVIEW - https://www.ni.com/en/support/documentation/compatibility/17/labview-and-microsoft-windows-compatibi...

NI-DAQ and LabVIEW Version Compatibility (for Windows) - https://www.ni.com/en/support/documentation/compatibility/16/ni-daqmx-and-labview-compatibility.html

You will want to make sure you are using a LabVIEW version that is supported on Windows 7 and also a DAQmx driver that is supported with your version of LabVIEW.

Regards,

[Aidan..]

Thanks Chris,

I've now got the correct version of DAQmx for Labview 8.5 but it would be great if we could get it working on this windows 7 machine. All of our other Labview VIs seem to work perfectly fine on windows 7; any problems we have had so far have been solved using the same methods as any other version of windows.

Pretend for a moment we are not using Windows 7, what would you suggest we try?

[Chris-NI]

Hi Aidan,

Though I cannot say this will work, I would recommend avoiding the DAQ Assistant because this is a somewhat overhead-expensive implementation of the DAQmx driver in order to accompany a wide range of user configurations.  Setting up your DAQmx tasks using the VIs from the DAQmx palette will be a more reliable way to go that may avoid some high-level incompatibilities.  Using the DAQmx VIs themselves will call to the DAQmx driver more directly.

To see how to set this up, I recommend looking at the shipping examples that come with LabVIEW (Example Finder: Hardware Input and Output»DAQmx»Analog Measurements»Voltage).  Additionally, we have several more online examples found at www.ni.com/examples.

Beyond that, since we have not done testing or updating on LabVIEW 8.5 with Windows 7, I would still have to recommend moving to a newer version of LabVIEW or perhaps switching to an older OS that supports 8.5.

Regards,

[Aidan..]

Hi Chris,

We've tried that before, but the "DAQmx physical channels constant" is always empty.

[Chris-NI]

Hi Aidan,

Unfortunately, I am not surprised you are not able to see your physical channels since the versions you are using are not meant to work with Windows 7.  Some other users here on the forums may have some unofficial work-arounds they have found that they can post here, but NI has no official supported solution for your setup.

Regards,