PXI slots not detected from PC with XP via MXI-3

[Bernard Scaringella]

When using a DELL laptop with XP , with a PCI slot
for a MXI-3 system, linked to a PXI-1002 chassis
boards on the PXI chassis are not visible in MAX3
or programmatically via VISA/CVI tools

[Nick_Storton]

Hi Bernard,

What boards do you have installed and which versions of the drivers?

Nick

[Bernard Scaringella]

Boards I use are in-house boards and I tried a GESPAC
GCIO1 board. I access these cards with NI-VISA interface without specific drivers. Such access works fine on a CompactPCI with W2K and same soft install.
I developp with CVI.
All VISA stuff is installed as weel as the CVI run-time
MAX needs. The MXI-3 software runs well a laptop boot.
VISA is latest one as CVI RT as MXI-3 soft.
Is there any specific versions (beta ??) for XP

Thanks for help

[Nick_Storton]

Hi Bernard,

Only NI cards are visible in MAX so this is why you cannot see your in-house cards. Can you see your cards in Device manager? The latest drivers for the system can be found here:-

http://www.ni.com/support/trouble_other.htm

I don't know of any beta versions for XP.

Hope this helps,

Nick

[Dan_Mondrik]

Specifically, you should have NI-VISA 3.0 or higher. Once you have identified the controller and chassis in MAX, then slot information should be available to you.

Dan Mondrik
National Instruments

[Bernard Scaringella]

Hi Nick,
Sorry but on the CompactPCI crate W2K MAX sees the
boards, and VISA Interactive Control sees them as well
so the problem is much more with XP and Hardware.
Thanks for help.

[Bernard Scaringella]

Hi Dan,
I have installed the latest versions for all software
and I get a error Code 12 from device manager when a
board is plugged in the PXI chassis. Without any board
plugged in I have no device manager problem. There's
a conflict somewhere I still do not have found.
Thanks for help.

[Jeremiah Cox]

Hello Bernard,
My guess is that you are plugging your laptop into a docking station, and that the MXI-3 card is installed in the docking station (correct?). Furthermore, I would speculate that the layout (perhaps non-standard) of the PCI bridges (laptop <-> docking station <-> MXI-3) may be causing this failure. To resolve this issue I would recommend contacting National Instruments Technical Support directly at http://www.ni.com/ask by selecting either "Phone NI" or "Email NI". I would also recommend that you open your Device Manager (Start >> Settings >> Control Panel >> System >> Hardware >> Device Manager), select View >> Devices By Connection, open all of the twiddles in the tree control, take some screen shots (Alt-Print
Screen), and forward that information to NI's Technical Support staff. It would also be helpful if you could provide them with the model/configuration of laptop and docking station that you are using.

Sincerely,
Jeremiah Cox
Staff Product Support Engineer -- System Software
National Instruments -- http://www.ni.com

[Bernard Scaringella]

Hi Jeremiah,
Happy to see you understand the hard config I use. Laptop DELL + dock + PCI-MXI3 + cable + PXI-MXI3 + boards.
I will contact NI TS, as you recommend with as many info as possible.
The error 12 appears only when a
board is plugged in the PXI-1002 and I've not seen
any conflict. It's a ressource problem. I've even cheked drivers loaded and it seems ok, I've the same info from my CompactPCI crate.
Thanks for Help