Cannot communicate with PXI-4070 DMM

[Crane Cal Lab]

Hi, I'm new to the PXI architecture and I'm having trouble getting set up.  I have a PXI-1031 chassis with a PCI-8310 Starfabric interface connected to my laptop via PCMCIA card.  I also have a DMM installed in this chassis, a PXI-4070.  I have the driver installed but when I try to look at the soft panel DMM it will only "simulate" a DMM because it does not see the 4070 installed.  Is this a common problem?  Thanks!

[DavidMN]

Hi Crane Cal Lab,

Please take a look at this Developer Zone article to verify that your latptop has been validated as supported for the CardBus 8310.  Also, which DMM driver do you have installed?  Are you able to see the PXI 4070 in Measurement and Automation Explorer?  Do you have another PXI system that you could test the PXI 4070 in?

Message Edited by DavidMN on 05-27-2009 10:11 AM

[Crane Cal Lab]

Thanks for your reply. 

The laptop is a Dell Latitude D630 with Win XP sp2 installed.

The driver is (I think) version 2.7.2.  I tried to uninstall and reinstall it, and now I get a message saying "no supported languages installed - unable to load resource files."  Sigh.  I'm not real good at this.

I was able to verify the PXI-4070 does work with MAX - I did this with it installed in a PXI-1045 chassis.  That's where it will normally reside; we just want to be able to remove it and install it in our PXI-1031 chassis for calibration purposes.

Thanks again for your reply.  Please let me know if I should call one of your people to resolve this - it's looking more complicated by the minute.

[DavidMN]

Hi Crane Cal Lab,

Have you been able to get any other PXI modules to operate properly within the PXI 1031 chassis using the 8310 controller?  Are you able to use the soft front panel properly when the 4070 is in the 1045 chassis?  Are you able to see the 4070 in MAX when in the 1031 chassis?  Where did you reinstall the driver from (I assume you mean the NI DMM driver)?  Thanks!

[Crane Cal Lab]

Have you been able to get any other PXI modules to operate properly within the PXI 1031 chassis using the 8310 controller? 

No, the PXI-4070 is the only thing I've tried.

Are you able to use the soft front panel properly when the 4070 is in the 1045 chassis? 

Yes, it works awesome.

Are you able to see the 4070 in MAX when in the 1031 chassis?

No, in fact I am not able to see it at all, even when using a PXI-8174 embedded controller (I put that question on another post, see here).

Where did you reinstall the driver from (I assume you mean the NI DMM driver)? 

Not sure I understand the question, but I downloaded the driver in a zipped file from your site to a flash drive.  I copied that to a folder on the PC. 

Thanks again for your help.  I hope I'm not being a difficult paitent.

[DavidMN]

Hi Crane Cal Lab,

You are definitely NOT being a difficult patient!  Would you please post a screenshot of your Windows Device Manager viewing devices by connection with the Starfabric connection hiearchy showing?  Thanks.