Anyone know what can cause the MXI-3 and PXI-1010 chassis to prevent PC bootup?

Situation: The PC locked up with the display blank. The PC would not bootup (not even POST) after power was cycled (several attempts).
Resolution: Simple. The chassis power was cycled and the PC was fully operational.
Background: The PC is a Dell Dimension 733 running WIN98 and used daily for production test. The test program is a combination of TestStand, instrument dll's and Labview.

Hi,
If the pci-mxi-3 is locking up the computer the most common cause for this is a bad mxi-3 card. To check this you will want to try the mxi-3 card and chassis with another type of computer. If it doesn't boot in more than one computer of different types you will want to return the board to national instruments for repair.
Another thing that we have seen in some computers is interference or noise from the power supplies interrupting communication through the mxi-3 devices. The only thing you can really try in this case is to move the pci-mxi-2 card to another slot in the pc and see if it works, or try using a different type of pc.
Power cycling the chassis is not a valid solution as this will drop the mxi-3 link and then you will no longer be able to talk to de
vices in the pxi system. You always need to successful power the pxi-mxi-2 card and chassis before you power up your pc.
Best Regards,
Amy Hindman
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

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