the computer can not recognize the DAQ PCI 1200 card

[PCI 1200]

Hello,

My proble is the computer could not recognize the DAQ PCI 1200 card.

I download the DAQ 6.9.3 driver from national instruments website and ran 'the setup.exe' in my computer, then I turned off the computer and inserted the DAQ PCI-1200 in a PCI slot. After that, I reboot the computer, and information "a new PCI device was found" come out, so I let the computer search and install the driver automatically, but it failed, the result was "the device was not installed because the software was not found." It seems I didn't use the right driver, but DAQ 6.9.3 is supposed to support PCI 1200 according to the information from website 

                                                      http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/6910

to make it clear, here I list the softwares and hardwares involved:

Hardware:

Dell computer  Dimension 4600

PCI 1200 

Softwares:

XP SP2

Labview 7.0/7.1

Labview Run-time 7.0/7.1

NI-488.2

Traditional NI-DAQ

NI-DAQmx

NI DAQ 6.9.2/6.9.3

I tried many solutions but still could not make it work, so I would really appreciate it if anyone can provide some suggestions or solutions.

Thanks a lot in advance, your suggestion may save me a lot of scratch.   

[PCI 1200]

Hi again,

I know now the problem arised from a stupid mistake I made when I install the DAQ 6.9.3 driver.

I thought I installed the driver after I ran the 'setup.exe', but it turns out I have to uninstall the NI DAQ driver already installed before to make the new driver work.

So what I did was:

1. uninstall the NI DAQ already installed in the National instrument

2. Delet the files under the file C:\program Files\national instruments\NI-DAQ\ 

2. Install DAQ 6.9.3 into the file path  C:\program Files\national instruments\NI-DAQ\

3. Reboot the computer, let the computer find the driver for the new PCI device, and this time the computer can automatically detect the driver you  installed, and will inform you the device is installed and ready for use.Done!

Then when I open the Measurement & Automation, I can see the device PCI-1200 and also the software Traditional NI-DAQ 6.9.3. 

I hope this could be helpful for those who has a similar problem.

Cheers.

[moderator1983]

Why dont you try any higher version of DAQmx drivers, which also supports LabVIEW 7.0

You can download that driver from http://ftp.ni.com/support/niDCD/Mar08/

Hope it will help you....

Regards

Moderator

[Dennis_Knutson]

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moderator1983 wrote:

Why dont you try any higher version of DAQmx drivers, which also supports LabVIEW 7.0

You can download that driver from http://ftp.ni.com/support/niDCD/Mar08/

Hope it will help you....

Regards

Moderator

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Because the PCI-1200 is not supported by DAQmx now and has never been supported by DAQmx. See this.

[John_P1]

One other thing to note is that Traditional DAQ 6.9.3 (which was the last version to support the 1200) is not compatible with LabVIEW versions beyond 6.1.