Labview 8.0 PDA local & global variable cause a crash

I've attached a pic of the portion of the VI that causes the PDA
application to crash. What is happening is that I write the initial
resistance0 to a (global or local) of a chip by using a case
structure that sets the value when the while loop first executes,
afterwards, every other iteration, it sets the resitance to a (local or
global variable) called resistance then it plots it.. unfortunately,
accessing the variable
this way causes it to crash .. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Message Edited by GHernandez on 02-09-2006 06:25 PM
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I've re-written this application , where i have not included global
variables for resistance, or resistance0 or the counter. The VI
executes for maybe a min or 2 then crashes giving me the
following error:
App failed. Error code 560331006. Bad input argument to function.
unfortunately, this error code does not tell me anything.
Message Edited by GHernandez on 02-10-2006 04:51 PM
Message Edited by GHernandez on 02-10-2006 04:52 PM
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