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2.4.5. Install NI-DAQmx 9.x

You first have to install NI-DAQmx from the CD included with your M- or X-Series board. For these

boards, version 8.8 or higher must be used because of the code added to support USB M-series boards,

and version 9.5 or higher must be used to support the X-Series boards. If you need to upgrade, you

might as well download and use the latest Version 9.9 from www.ni.com.

Follow the installation instructions. Although you can use the installation defaults, only the NI-DAQmx

and NI Measurement and Automation Explorer must be installed, the Microsoft Visual C Support, the OPC

Support, and the VI Logger are not required.

Then restart the computer and the Found New Hardware wizard will run. When asked about Windows

connecting to Windows Update, respond

(*) No not at this time

Then choose

{*} Install the software automatically (recommended)

And the wizard should say that it has finished installing the software for the PCI-62xx board.

2.4.6. Run the Measurement and Automation Explorer (MAX) and test the

board

Click on ‘Devices and Interfaces’, then click on ‘NI-DAQmx Devices’ and your M- or X-Series PCI or PCIe

board should appear (such as ‘NI PCI-6221 “Dev1”’ or ‘NI PCIe-6321 “Dev1”’).

If the name of the device is not the default “Dev1”, perform a right mouse click and Rename the device to

“Dev1”. It is essential that this device is called “Dev1”.

Then perform a right mouse click and run the Self-Test.

Then click on the Test Panels. (Make sure AO0 is connected to AI0.) Set Analog Output mode to

Sinewave Generator, Transfer Mechanism to DMA, and click Start. Set Analog Input Mode to Continuous

and Configuration to NRSE, and click Start. A sinewave should appear in the graph.

NOTE: If there is a problem, first try moving the PCI M-Series board to another PCI slot (I know this

from experience!). Otherwise contact National Instruments support. Nothing in MAX depends on

WinLTP, and WinLTP will not work if the testing in MAX doesn’t work.

2.4.7 Run more than one M- or X-Series board in one computer

In WinLTP 1.11, we added the capability of simultaneously running more than one M- or X-Series board in

one computer. As far as WinLTP is concerned, you can theoretically install up to 9 National Instrument

boards into one computer (“Dev1” to “Dev9”), and have up to 9 boards operating simultaneously.

However, we have only tested simultaneously running up to 3 boards for now. The number of boards you