MAX recognizing 3rd party non-NI PCI/USB devices that already have a device driver (DLLs)

[mjr1978]

My company manufactures PCI and USB accquisition devices and we deistribute our own Windows drivers and DLLs.  In addition, we have LabVIEW VI's that also access these devices (through the DLL).

Customers are interested in seeing my devices show up in MAX, so they can confirm that the hardware is present in the system (in addition to NI hardware).

Problem is that when I use the NI driver Wizard, it creates a new driver for that hardware and uninstalls the existing driver.

Is there a way to have MAX recognize my hardware, but allow me to continue to use my own windows device driver (and DLL)?

[JoshuaP]

MAX does not support 3rd party PCI or USB hardware that doesn't conform to the USBTMC specification, except for those created with the NI-VISA driver development wizard.  It will also show 3rd party PXI(e) modules that conform with the PXI spec and 3rd party Ethernet instruments that conform to VXI11 or LXI specification.