Common Problems:  (98-Mar-13)


- Pentium Pro or Pentium II with National Instruments VXI-PCI8000 fails

    National Instruments has a new VISA software driver its VXI-MXI-2
    interface card for the Pentium Pro and Pentium II computers.  You can
    get the new driver from National Instruments along with details on how
    to install the new driver software and edit the registry.

    The latest NI-VXI software must be downloaded from National Instruments 
    ftp site: ftp.natinst.com  (To fix a VXImove bug)

   1. Download, unzip and install the file:
      WindowsNT:
        ftp://ftp.natinst.com/support/vxi/drivers/vxipc-8xx7xx/nivxi/winnt/2.0
      Windows95:
        ftp://ftp.natinst.com/support/vxi/drivers/vxipc-8xx7xx/nivxi/win95/2.0
    
      Download the following files:
                                  00readme.txt
                                  Vxipc20.zip
      Follow the instructions in the readme file 

   2. Next, run the WindowsNT/95 registry editor, regedit,  and set the
      DisableMiteDMA value to 1 in the registry key:

      Using regedit32 find;

      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\National Instruments\NI-VXI for WIN32
  
      Set DisableMiteDMA to 1


    The workaround is to use programmed I/O transfers instead of DMA.
    This can be accomplished by setting AccessP_PIO(XFER_PIO) (bit 11)
    in the access parameters argument to VXImove.  You also can force
    programmed I/O transfers by setting the DisableMiteDMA value to 1 in
    the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\National
    Instruments\NI-VXI for WIN32.

    See the 00readme.txt file in the same ftp directory as pcimxi20.zip
    for more details.


- Soft Front Panel reports run time error 48

    Visual Basic can't find a DLL - probably hpe1432_32.dll.

    The environment variable $PATH is incorrect. 

    $PATH needs to point to C:\VXIPNP\WIN95\bin (or WINNT) 
    check your system for the exact location.

    Days were wasted in one case because the path was set to
    C:\VXIPNP\WIN\BIN when it should have been C:\VXIPNP\WINNT\BIN

- Soft Front Panel runs, examples for both VEE and C don't run

    The C examples expect the E1432 to be at address 8.

    When you first loaded the vee-example, you were asked to set up
    "dev1432".  The interface name must be correct and address must
    match your E1432 address.

- VTLSCAN runs, and reports the E1432,  but the soft front panel can't
  find any E1432s.  

    A24 address space is disabled.  Check the output of the resource
    manager run it runs.  You should see A24 space being allocated.
    Enable the A24 space.

- no Plug&PLay libraries on the system

    These come from the manufacturer of the VXI interface.
    Uninstall E1432 libraries.  Install VXI Plug&Play libraries.
    Reinstall E1432.

- resource manager won't complete without errors

    Wrong version of vendors Visa libraries were loaded.  The
    VXIinit error window does not stay visable unless run from a 
    dos prompt.  (NI only)


