Windows 7 Certified Driver

[Turtle33]

I am using a PXI-1033 chassis with a PXI-1411 image aquisition card and a third party camera. I have written a program running on a Windows 7, 64-bit machine. I occasionally get an exception which causes the program to shut down without correctly shutting the camera interface. On subsequent runnings of the program I get an error on this interface.  What I have figured out is that the device driver is not automaticaly obtained on rebooting the system and it chooses the wrong driver. It creates a second PCI-PCI bridge instead of choosing the NI Enumerated Device driver. When I correct this, without doing anything else the program will run no problems. I believe the issue to be that the driver is not Windows 7 certified. Does this driver exist? Is there any way to ensure that the chassis chooses the correct driver on reboot?

[Z'atari]

Hey Turtle33,

I checked the readme on the most current IMAQ drivers and it does show that the IMAQ driver allows compatibility between the 1411 card and Windows 7 64-bit.

So the million dollar question is what version of IMAQ do you have? If it is 4.3 or below, then you need to update.

Hope this helps!

 Regards,

A. Zaatari

[Turtle33]

Thank you for your reply.

I am using IMAQ version 4.4, it seems to be grabbing the wrong device driver because it creates this second PCI-PCI bridge in the device manager. If I go into the manager and correct it, it runs just fine. I do not get this problem everytime the program stops, either by design or because of an error, just sometimes.

[Z'atari]

Hey Turtle33,

Can you go ahead an update the driver anyway and see if there is any improvement?

Regards,

A. Zaatari