Reinstalling an Instrument Driver for one VI?

[AnthonyMN]

Hey everyone,

Earlier on in a project I configured a VI within one of my instrument drivers and saved it, now I'm looking to get it back to the starting point it was at. I've tried reinstalling the instrument driver and it never actually configures any of the files. Any advice on how to go about this?

Thanks,

Anthony

[RavensFan]

Instead of an Install, can you treat it as a Repair?

[AnthonyMN]

I tried but I couldn't find a function for that. Is that located in an option somewhere while installing instrument drivers?

[crossrulz]

What instrument are you trying to use?  Most of the LabVIEW "drivers" I have seen are just zip files that you unzip to the correct location.  Perhaps there is one of those floating around for your instrument.

[AnthonyMN]

I'm trying to us the read measurements VI under the chr616xx instrument drivers for a Chroma 61604.

I guess a more advanced solution to this would be asking why a call library function is only working for a Vrms value and not Vdc or Frequency after I deleted the library nodes for the unused variables (that may be a really stupid thing to do, I'm not honestly sure).

[AnthonyMN]

http://sine.ni.com/apps/utf8/niid_web_display.download_page?p_id_guid=E3B19B3E9172659CE034080020E748...

Link to the drivers page.

[RavensFan · Accepted solution]

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@AnthonyMN wrote:

I tried but I couldn't find a function for that. Is that located in an option somewhere while installing instrument drivers?

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Does the Installation show up under the Add/Remove Programs withing Windows Control Panel?  I believe that is where you can do a repair.

What if you uninstall from there and then reinstall the drivers?

[AnthonyMN]

Repair did not work from the control panel, but uninstalling from there allowed me to reinstall it.

Also it's worth noting that I do not have to rebuild the program because of the installation either, so that's a nice perk!

Thank you!