"Out of range" error at analog input

[Emanuel]

Hello!

I use a PCI 1200 card with Nidaq 6.6.0 and Labview 5.1 support files on Windows NT for data aquisition. My programm has one digital channel and three analog input channels. I didn't write the programm myself but bought it in 1999 together with an apparatus which delieveres all these signals. I have only a Labview Executable which runs with LabView Runtime Engine 5.1.1 and the daqdrv, the serpdrv and one .lrm file.

The programm was running fine till the computer broke down. I had to reinstall the whole system and everything seems to work except the readings of the three analog input channels (one K-thermocouple and 2 times voltage). In the MAX the test panel says "out of range" for the channels. The digital channel (which is for switching valves in the apparatus) works fine!

What can be wrong?

- It's not the PCI card, I borrowed another one - it produces the same readings (And I tried all PCI buses in the computer)

- The Measurement and Automation Explorer MAX recognises the card and the card passes the test.

- I tried different settings like DIFF, NRSE and RSE, bipolar and unipolar but nothing changes for good.

- The settings of my four channels were saved in the daqdrv, that's why I think the mistake is not in the channel settings, but somewhere else.

I have checked the "Checking your board settings" support files from NI but nothing seems to help.

Any idea from you will be much appreciated!

Thanks a lot!

[Christian Mergl]

Hello,

You should update your NI-DAQ driver by downloading and installing the following links:

http://digital.ni.com/softlib.nsf/websearch/50F49E43A22C0D2186256BF3006B9A96?opendocument&node=132070_US   (choose the right one)

http://digital.ni.com/softlib.nsf/websearch/E470663AFB8A9EDD86256D8800543B4B?opendocument&node=132070_US 

I hope it will work after the updates!

Regards

Christian Mergl

[Emanuel]

Hello Christian!

Thank you very much for your update information. I knew about the 6.9.3 but not about the patches.

I tried the Nidaq 6.9.3 driver with the patch but nothing changes. In fact another problem occurs: Nidaq 6.9.3 seems not to recognize the "daqdrv" file, so I had to enter the channel settings in the MAX by hand.

Is there a possibility to load the information from daqdrv file to Nidaq? The daqdrv has no file extension. And the MAX only opens .daq files.

By the way I recognized that my task manager shows the CPU at 100 % when I open my application. Is this a hint on what is going wrong?

Thanks to anybody who might help me!

Kind regards,

Emanuel