PXI 4070 use DAQmx Drivers

[jjsomer]

I have replaced a PXI 4060 card with a PXI 4070 card in a PXI 1042 chassis that I use for resistance measurements.  I want to use DAQmx drivers instead of the traditional daq drivers.  How can I do this?

My controlling software is VB6.  I have had issues with traditional daq on Windows XP machines with new NI installations.  Errors indicate there is an issue with the traditional daq drivers.  The sample applications installed with the niDMM 2.7 installation error with message "Error Loading Driver Module".  I have used the palbase utility in the past to work around this issue, however, the palbase utility is not failing to change the base address.  There is an error message associated with the failure, but I figure I may save myself the headache by switching to DAQmx drivers.

[Sean_N]

I would recommend upgrading to the niDMM 3.0.4 drivers found here.  This version is still compatible with Visual Basic 6.0 and Windows XP.  niDMM 2.7 would have installed NI-DAQ 8.5.  The name indicates that it is traditional DAQ, but as far as I can tell, version 8.5 was only DAQmx.  3.0.4 will also install a newer version of DAQmx that is compatible with XP, as well as the examples.  It seems that the version you have should have worked, but there may be some corruption, or there may have been a version of traditional DAQ 8.5 at some time (we had some versions of NI-DAQ that included both traditional DAQ and DAQmx).  I hope this helps!

Thanks,

Sean