Drivers for USB 6001

[scootergarrett]

Hello

Again not sure if this is the correct post location.

I have a NI USB-6001 connected to one windows computer and it shows up like I'm used to in MAX, with options to test each channel exc. I have a second windows 10 computer and I think i have the drivers all messed up; when I open MAX it see the device but doesn't give me any options to test the channels. I've tried downloading and installing a bunch of drivers and stuff from this page (https://www.ni.com/en/search.html?pg=1&ps=10&sb=%2Brelevancy&sn=catnav:sup.dwl.ndr)  but there are 99 different choices, and I'm not sure what one I need for the USB-6001. I'm surprised there is no link to drivers from the product page.

I have even tried to uninstall all the NI stuff and restart but it seems like some NI files are left behind.

What drivers dose the USB 6001 need?  or how do I do a full uninstall of all NI stuff?

Thanks

[rolfk]

Almost all the National Instrument Data Acquisition devices need NI-DAQmx installed on a computer to work. The USB-6001 is no exception.

https://www.ni.com/nl-nl/support/downloads/drivers/download.ni-daq-mx.html

[scootergarrett]

I think i do have that installed. can you tell from the screen shot of the package manager?

Thanks again.

[rolfk]

Seems ok to me. Maybe reinstall everything. And yes you only should need NI Measurement & Automation Explorer and NI-DAQmx to do what you described.

[scootergarrett]

I tried to remove the 'NI software' with "Add or remove programs" but it couldn't find the uninst.exe and said "Make sure you typed the name correctly and try again. I found the .exe it was looking for in "C:\Program File (x86)\National Instruments\Shared\BinRTE," but when I clicked that it says "Please go to Windows Control Panel to uninstall this product.  So that seems like a little bit of a circular trap.

I then used the NI package manager and checked all the installed items and clicked remove. this got rid of most of items but also had a error (An error occurred while uninstall the MIS at 'nimrui64.msi'. ...) I went back and did the remove for all the items left and it seemed to clear them out. All that was left was "NI Package manager".  this seems like I've got it all uninstalled.

I then went to the site: https://www.ni.com/nl-nl/support/downloads/drivers/download.ni-daq-mx.html and downloaded and ran "ni-daqmx_23.3_online.exe". now NI max is back on my computer but it takes forever to open and show some warning and points to a .dmp file (when I open the file with note pad its mostly junk)

is the .dmp file supposed to tell me anything.

Thanks for you continued help.

[Nate13]

Hey I'm having a similar issue with the USB 6000.

I was able to read values last week but now after downloading some more libraries I can't access the device anymore.

When I open NI MAX the device is recognized but when I click on it the software tells me the right driver is missing.

The blue light is not on anymore when I plug it in (this was the case last week).

Is there a way to download device-specific drivers of some sort?

Deleting NI software didn't solve it (i even uninstalled the software from my computer settings after removing all the packages in the package manager).

Any luck yet?

[GarrettCassidy]

I don't know what is going on. I have a few computers using NI libraries and they all seem to be messed up. The drivers install for various NI devices is a terrible experience. I spend considerable about of money on DAQ equipment and when I need to download drivers I'm sent to a page (https://www.ni.com/en/search.html?pg=1&ps=10&sb=%2Brelevancy&sn=catnav:sup.dwl.ndr) with hundreds of options. NI should have a driver download right on the produce page. I have windows 10 its not some crazy OS. NI is doing a bad job with drivers in my opinion.

[rolfk]

For DAQ equipment of almost any sort you need only this page: https://www.ni.com/en/support/downloads/drivers/download.ni-daq-mx.html#494676

[Nate13]

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So I managed to make it work on my pc.

First of all try deleting everything in the NI Package manager and deinstall every NI app from windows. After that reinstall + the drivers.

Following this I went to the device manager in windows and right-clicked it to update the drivers, I made windows look for the right drivers.

I was using the device in a VC++ project and at some point got error code 229771. This can be solved by opening the NI MAX software, going to tools -> reset configuration data and rebooting my pc. I assume this resets some files that might have been corrupted along the way. (source: https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z000000P7a7SAC&l=nl-BE)

Lastly, about my VC++ project, make sure to have ALL the library paths set in the app (I can tell you more about that if you need to).

Be sure to try some of these things out and good luck!

[GarrettCassidy]

Thanks for you help. I'm still having issues. I cleared out all the NI stuff of the computer, the reinstalled the driver set "NI Drivers 2015.04". I tried to update drivers from device manager but it said they were already up to date. I also went into Max and did the "Reset Configuration Data" then reset the computer. I still get errors trying to compile my C program. The program compiles and works on another windows 10 computer.

I've attached the short program I've been trying to compile (with the compile command on top)

and I get this error: "C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\Shared\ExternalCompilerSupport\C\lib64\msvc\NIDAQmx.lib: error adding symbols: File format not recognized
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status"