Not seeing PXI modules, PXI unconfigured

[user50]

PXI is relatively new hardware to me.  My setup is a PXI 1010 with an 8361 card for communications.

In the PXI section in MAX, I can leave PXI System unconfigured (since I don't see any 8361 driver when you right click on the device) but I can expand the buses and force one of the those buses to be my PXI 1010.  I can do VISA communication with the chassis so I know we are partially talking.  But.... I don't see any modules on that chassis.  Am I suppose to have the PXI configured for some controller?  Which one/how?  Any help appreciated.

I've attached an image of MAX so you can see what I'm talking about.

Thanks,

Bryan

[Matt.S]

Hi Bryan,

I have found this tutorial on setting up and configuring a PXI-1010,  I would suggest running through this to see if it eliminates the problem.  If the problem persists then post back and I will look into the matter further.

Regards

[user50]

I've gone through the tutorial and have made a couple of changes to the config...  Now the PXI system is an External PC (since we are using an MXI card 8361).  The MAX section of the PXI system appears OK, but the actual modules in devices and interfaces are not seen. 

I've attached a new image where I try to connect to the SCXI portion, but the system does not see the chassis communicator (8361).

This was working 1 week ago (also MAX image attached) with all the some modules.  Something apparently has changed in the configuration or a hardware fault?  I'm leaning towards the 8361, but I don't know how to confirm. 

Thanks for your help

[Robert__R]

Can you look for the modules in device manager?  If they're there then it's probably a software/configuration problem.  If they're not then it's probably hardware.  Are the link lights on the 8361 boards green?

- Robert

[user50]

That's what I did right after I posted the message....

In device manager I saw that the PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge driver was not working (image) then found another post (http://forums.ni.com/t5/PXI/PXie-8361-not-detected/m-p/1564908/highlight/true#M9242) that had very similar problems and they needed the MXI Compatibilty Driver  (http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/2071/lang/en).

I did not have that driver on my machine, and once it was installed my Device Manager and MAX was happy!

Thanks for the pointers.