Measurement and Automation explorer or the Instrument I/O Assistant is not installed correctly.

I am having difficulties getting Labview to work with my NI card. I have a PCI_6225 card running on a Win 7 64-bit install. I had to download all of the drivers and installers from the NI site and during the Labview install, I recieve a prompt asking for my hardware drivers. Since I only have the compressed hardware installer, Labview doesn't like what it sees and continues the installation of LABVIEW. I then attempt to open an analog input channel through the Instrument I/O Assistant which displays the error seen in the image attached.
I know the hardware works because in the Measurement and Automation client, I am able to observe the analog input I hope to collect in LABVIEW.
Is there a fix to get LABVIEW working? I have tried multple installs of LABVIEW and am on a administered computer through my University's IT people. I have 'full admin' rights. Thanks.
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Hello jbaxter,
When you download the Drivers from NI's website, make sure you unzip them (extract them) to a folder on your computer before you install them. If you use the NI Downloader it should prompt you to unzip and run the files after the download is complete. You need to either repair, or reinstall DAQmx and NI VISA. Make sure you download the latest versions of these first:
http://search.ni.com/nisearch/app/main/p/bot/no/ap/global/lang/en/pg/1/sn/catnav:du,ssnav:sup/1//en/...
Then go to Control Panel»Programs and Features»National Instruments Software and click Uninstall/Change then go to DAQmx and NI-VISA and click Repair. You can then point to folder that you downloaded from NI's website (make sure this is not a zip folder, but the folder that has been extracted). Or you could choose Remove, and then reinstall them both again. Also if you are using GPIB, reinstall or repair the NI-488.2 driver.
Here are some relevant links:
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/DC808866AF7D5C0986256FCE006E9BAB
http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Again-I-O-Assistant-not-installed-correctly/td-p/1024807
http://forums.ni.com/t5/Instrument-Control-GPIB-Serial/quot-MAX-or-Instrument-I-O-Assistant-not-inst...
http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Install-Instrument-I-O-Assistant/td-p/1471516
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