PXI-1050 chassis timed out

System is no longer working after power failure. Chassis timed out error in Automation explorer. PC interface card has one green LED on. All cards in the chassis have all LEDs on (PXI, HSDIO, DMM, & SCOPE). Windows hardware manager shows "standard PCI to PCI bridge" but no "MXI-4 connection monitor". Need assistance to determine which MXI interface card is bad, or if chassis itself is bad. I have unplugged HSDIO, DMM & SCOPE cards and failure symptom is the same.
Attached is a zipped screen shot from automation explorer.
Attachments:
mxi error.zip ‏334 KB

Hi,
Do you have any other MXI cards or perhaps an Embedded Controller to test if the chassis is bad? From your description however, it seems that one of the MXI interface might have gone bad. The only way you could test that, is if you had extra MXI card for either PC or PXI.
Best Regards,
Jignesh P

Similar Messages

Max and Automation will not recognize my scxi portion of my PXI-1050 chassis

I have a PXI-1050 chassis with a PXI-8187 controller. As most of you know the chassis is a PXI/SCXI combo chassis. When I go to measurement and autoation explorer using NI-DAQ 6.9.3, and whatever version of explorer that comes with that, All my devices are listed, the PXI-6071, PXI-6030 and 31 etc. But when I right click on the device and create a new device the option I have to use is PXI-1010 chassis, becuase there is no option for a PXI-1050. The entry is created but it will always fail the self check. "Unable to test chassis at this time". Anyone familliar with this problem? I looked on NI.com to find a PXISYS.ini file for this chassis but with no luck.
Thanks
Bill

Bill,
The PXI-1050 must be configured as a PXI-1010 chassis in Traditional DAQ. The PXI-1010 and PXI-1011 are legacy versions of the PXI-1050 and PXI-1052 chassis, respectively, but Traditional (Legacy) NI-DAQ only has native support for the legacy version of the chassis. But the two chassis are virtually the same.
Also you might consider upgrading to the newer version of the Traditional DAQ driver. It can be downloaded for free by going to www.ni.com and then clicking on Drivers and Updates. Currently the newest version is 7.4.2.
Have a great day,
Brian P.

How to use PXI Star Trigger for PXIe-5663 in PXIe-1075 chassis

HI all,
I have this sytem configuration:
PXIe-8135 controller. Windows 7 64-bit, RFSA 2.7.5. NI-SYNC 3.4.1
PXIe-1075 chassis
PXIe-5663 (2x)
PXIe-6672 Timing & Sync Card (slot #10)
I want to trigger the recording of my Digitizer with an external trigger.
The External Trigger is connected to PFI0 of the PXIe-6672 Timing card.
Then, the PXIE-6672 card routes the trigger to the backplane of the PXIe-1072 (Destination "NISYNC_VAL_PXITRIG0")
The PXIe-5663 are triggered with “NIRFSA_VAL_PXI_TRIG0_STR” as the source.
The trigger fires my PXIe-5663 correctly, but the timing is not tight (> 5ns).
I would like to use the PXI Star trigger instead, I think that I should be able to acheive much better synchronization with this.
But NI-RFSA won't let me do this:
When I try to call
"niRFSA_ConfigureDigitalEdgeStartTrigger(rfsa_session, NIRFSA_VAL_PXI_STAR_STR , NIRFSA_VAL_RISING_EDGE)", I get the error:
"Specified Route Cannot Be Satisfied, Because the Hardware Does Not Support It"
I don't understand why the PXIe-5663E would not be able to use that Route.
Any idea?
Regards,
Serge
Serge Malo, ing.
Concepteur logiciel
Software Developer
T (514) 842-7577 x648 | [email protected]

That explanation isn't quite right. Usually, even PXIe modules have a connection to PXI_Star. The PXIe standard added the PXIe_DStar trigger buses, and it also preserved the PXI_Star bus from the PXI standard.
However, there is an additional twist in this situation. I'm assuming that your PXIe-5663 includes a PXIe-5622 as the digitizer. It turns out that a synchronization technique called NI-TClk has eliminated the need for our more recent digitizers to rely on triggering from PXI_Star. I was able to find some documentation that includes this information, here and here. Given that, I think you have two options that should result in better synchronization.
The first option is to use TClk; I found an example program that demonstrates using TClk to acheive phase coherent signal acquisition across two 5663s. The second option is to use cables of matched length to connect two PFI front panel terminals of the timing board (6672) to the PFI1 front panel terminals of the digitizers (5622). The timing board would accept the external trigger on PFI0 and then issue triggers on PFI1 and PFI2 with around 500 ps of skew (manual, page A-4) . The digitizers would use NIRFSA_VAL_PFI1_STR as the trigger. I hope one of these solutions will meet the demands of your particular application.
I will also follow up with the owners of the RFSA product documentation to see if we can include a note about why PXI_Star is not supported in some cases.
James Blair
NI R&D

ADLINK PXIe-3985 Controller - NI PXIe-1062Q Chassis Compatibility

Hello forum members!
we recently purchased a PXIe-3985 ADLINK PXIe Embedded controller to be installed in a NI PXIe-1062Q PXIe chassis. In our system is also present a NI PXIe-6672 Timing Module, installed in the chassis timing slot (4). Windows 7 installation, NI MAX toolsuite and NI PXIe-6672 Timing Module driver installation worked fine, but we discovered that the CPU is not able to recognize the TIMING SLOT. We cannot generate any PXI STAR signal with our NI PXIe-6672 Timing Module because it appears that the TIMING SLOT is recognized as normal peripheral slot. The PXI trigger lines and clocks are working well and usable, but not the PXI STAR signals.
I also tried to install the PXIe Chassis in the NIMAX toolsuite as explained in the PXIPLATFORM _50-17049-100_200.pdf document from ADLINK.
basically in the NIMAX device and interface tab I right click and try to add the pxie chassis.
First it is not understandable how can I find the bus identifier root of the chassis. There is a PXI bus tree, but no evidence of the PXI bus related to the chassis.
Furthermore even if I select one PXI bus, the NI PXIe-1062Q PXIe chassis is not listed and trying to load the corresponding .ini file from C://programs/nationl instruments/PXI/PXIe Chassis/ returns the error “Could not import Chassis information. Error Code 0xFFFB380E”
is the ini file working at all for my PXIe chassis? is there another procedure that I must follow to have my timing controller working or the chassis installed?
We definitely need this capability to test our equipment and I would like to know if there are known incompatibility issues between these three devices:
PXIe-3985 ADLINK PXIe Embedded controller
NI PXIe-1062Q PXIe chassis
NI PXIe-6672 Timing Module
And in case if there is an update or workaround which solves the issue.
The system has Win7 32bit installed.
Many thanks to every answering user

Hi emanuele83,
which version of PXI Platform Service do you use?
Can you please upgrade to a current version?
Here is a download link:
PXI Platform Services 14.1 - National Instruments
http://www.ni.com/download/pxi-platform-services-14.1/5230/en/
This may solve the issue.
Best regards,
Andi

PXIe 8262 streaming performance with HDD 8264 on a PXIe 1062Q chassis

Hello,
I have a PXIe 1062Q chassis, running Win XP, with one 8262 connected to an HD8264 and two PXIe 6537 installed, all the three board being on the express slots (3, 4 and 5). Running the benchmark application for testing the streaming speed (Win32FileIO) I get something like 100 MB/s with data chunks of about 4 MB, and around 140 MB/s with chunk of 64 M. How can improve these results toward the theoretical limit off 600 MB/s? Is there any software/driver trick to be applied?
And, in case, which is the best way to exploit the 8262 from C++ written code (using the NI libraries)? Is there anything similar to the Win32FileIO library? I tried using the RAID system from a c++ test program, and the performance seems very poor, while I would need, if not the 600 MB/s rate, at least something around 200 MB/s of continuous streaming.
Thanks in advance,
Piero.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Hi Neil,
I actually have a 8130 controller, and in fact that was not the problem: I found the problem being the file-caching performed by Windows file system. If you use standard fstream calls from C source code you cannot bypass it, but by using Windows native call (CreateFile(...), WriteFile(...) APIs) and setting the flag for no data caching or buffering inside the call, I managed to get the full bandwith of 600 MBytes/s.
Anyway thanks for the quick reply!
Piero
I'm guessing you have a controller that only
supports x1 PCI Express. The PXIe-8130 is our highest-bandwidth
controller, with four x4 links going to the chassis. In the case of
the 1062, each of slots 3, 4 and 5 get a dedicated link from the
controller. x1 links max out at about 200 MB/s and x4 links max out at
800 MB/s.
So your first step is to use an embedded
controller or use MXI Express x4 instead of x1 back to a host
computer. While the PXIe-8130 is the best for high-bandwidth data
transfers, the PXIe-8106 should also be sufficient for your needs.
If
you want to stream data to disk from a PXIe-6537, it is already built
into DAQmx. You simply specify a file name, and the data goes to
disk. If you want to stream *from* disk, you'll have to do that on
your own. Here is a C/CVI example for streaming digitizers to disk
using a C API and the Windows File I/O functions.
Neil
Principal Engineer
National Instruments

How do you configure multiple PXI 1011 chassis' in MAX?

I have two PXI 1011 chassis'. The first has the MXI-3 card hooked to a MXI-3 PC card through fiber. The second chassis has an 8176 controller and the 6052e GPIB card. Both chassis have multiple SCXI cards. The problem is the configuration in MAX. MAX 3 picks up the MXI-3 card and chassis with all the SCXI modules, but will not pick up the 8176 chassis. This 8176 is hooked to the PC through a CAT5 ethernet switch.I know there are problems with multiple chassis configuration, but I'm sure I'm just missing something here.

Hi,
So it sounds like you have two PXI systems that are not connected or related to each other, is that right? Since your PXI chassis connected via MXI-3 is working fine, we�ll take that out of the equation.
It sounds like you are trying to configure your PXI-8176 system as a Remote System through an Ethernet connection. Is your PXI-8176 running Windows (if so which version) or Real-Time (RT) operating system?
If you are running Windows XP on the PXI-8176 and also on your computer you can use XP Remote Desktop to control your PXI-8176 system through Ethernet (see the following link for information on that):
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/C074C33F4DE3FA5186256D3D007788DA?OpenDocument
Another option is to use Remote Device Access (RDA) to cont
rol your SCXI modules and DAQ board (6052E). RDA will only work with Traditional NI-DAQ, it is not supported in NI-DAQmx. I�ve included a couple of links for KB�s that have more information on RDA for you.
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/3a4d2f5f4354e53a862568c0006a8bc0?OpenDocument
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/5CC9792C6CD4A34C862565BC0072D5DF?OpenDocument
If you ordered your controller only with Real-Time on it you can use the following document to configure and troubleshoot your PXI-8176 RT system.
http://www.ni.com/support/install/install_configure_6.htm
I hope this helps you.
Regards,
Doug K.
National Instruments

Fix for PXIe-1075 Chassis 3.V V Drift?

I have a PXIe-1075 chassis which is exhibiting the type of voltage drift behavior described in Document ID 52DD5OL3. The serial number matches with the numbers described in the document as one of a series which should be returned to NI for repair.
As I'm on quite a tight budget, and the unit was purchased used (on Ebay), I'm wondering if anyone out there has any familiarity with this problem, and the manner of repair required. I'm assuming that warranties are way out on this one. I might attempt the repair myself.
The KnowledgeBase document suggests that the problem is related to a connector problem on the PXIe-1075 chassis power shuttle. Can anyone suggest more specifically which connector is the problem, and how it might be corrected by a capable, enthusiastic, and adventurous engineer?
Thanks!
Jon

Hello Grandmaster_P!
The unit's S/N: V08X16632
Once again, this unit was purchased second-hand. Can I still get warranty work on it? It was originally a part of NI's RF road show, but ended up on ebay a few years back, where I purchased it from a freight recovery warehouse in Salt Lake City, UT.
If it was not covered, have you any idea what this sort of repair might cost?
Thanks!
Jon

MAX does not detect my PXI-5122 and PXI-6551 cards in a PXI-1045 chassis.

I have been using a PC with MXI-3 to PXI-1045 chassis to develop LabView TestStand code. Things are fine on my development PC. [Software configuration report attached nireport_rich.txt].
I have a 2nd PC set aside to test my deployment packages. I installed a GPIB card and MXI-3 card in my deployment test PC, and loaded a bunch of hardware drivers. [Report attached nireport_depPC_0006.txt]
All the PXI cards are found just fine when my development PC is connected, but when I power up my deployment PC (with MXI-3 connected to the 1045 chassis) -- I can't import the development configuration [exported from development PC] because the deployment PC does not see the PXI-6551 DIO card in slot 6 [PXI6::10::INSTR] and the PXI-5122 card in slot 13 [PXI8::15::INSTR].
I keep reviewing the hardware driver versions installed, and the only small difference that I see at this point is that the deployment PC has a slightly older version of NI-Switch.
Anybody have any ideas of what I can try next? I'm out of ideas.
. . . . hmmm, can't seem to attach more than one file, so here's the software info on the deployment PC
NI Software Information:
CVI Run-Time 7.0.0.395
NI-DAQ 7.3.0f1
NI-DAQmx 7.3.1f0
NI Script Editor 1.1
NI-DMM 2.3.1
     Soft Front Panel 2.3.0
NI-FGEN 2.2.1
     FGEN Soft Front Panel 2.2
NI-488.2 Software 2.30
IVI Compliance Package 2.2 2.2
LabVIEW Run-Time 7.0
Measurement & Automation Explorer 3.1.1.3003
Measurement Studio 6.0
     For Visual Basic
          ActiveX User Interface 7.0.0.344
          ActiveX 3D Graph 7.0.0.344
          ActiveX DataSocket 4.2.2.1
NI-USI 1.0.2
NI-HSDIO 1.2.1.3
NI-HWS 1.2.2.0
NI-PAL Software 1.8.2.0
NI-SCOPE 2.7.0f5
     SCOPE Soft Front Panel 2.1.0
NI Spy 2.2.0.12
NI-SWITCH 2.30.49153
NI-TClk 1.2
TestStand 3.1
NI-VISA 3.2
     visa32.dll 3.2.0.19
     NiVisaServer.exe 3.2.0.19
     NIvisaic.exe 3.2.0.19
LabVIEW Run-Time 7.1

Hello Maggie,
Appreciate your assistance and reply.
The pxisys.ini and pxiesys.ini files are modified by me with referring to
1)PXI System Alliance PXI-2 SW spec,
2)PXI-6 SW spec,
and 3)pxisys.ini pxiesys.ini generated by MAX v5.3.0f0 with NI PXIe-1075 + NI PXIe-8133.
The content in pxisys.ini/pxiesys.ini generated by MAX looks like simple. Consequently, I modified and checked it line by line according to actual hardware of PXES-2590+PXIe-3975. Then, MAX just list devices as described in the first post. I tried to find the root cause but in vain.
Is this minor issue can be related any incorrect tag lines in pxisys.ini or pxiesys.ini I posted?
Is any suggestion tests I can do to troubleshoot root cause?
Looking forward your reply.
Cheers,
KL Tseng

Adapt NI PXI-7356 to a PXIe Hybrid chassis

How can I adapt NI PXI-7356 to a PXIe Hybrid chassis. Read somplace that the J2 connector can be removed by NI but I can't seem to find any information on this now.

Hi rnehring,
I didn't think this was possible but surprisingly I think I may have found it. Check out this White Paper: http://www.ni.com/white-paper/3882/en/
Scroll down to the section titled "What is a Hybrid Slot-Compatible PXI Module?" and look at the instructions there. Is this what you're looking for?
Julian R.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

Pxi-8186 no video out

Looking for some advice on a problem we are having.
We have a PXI 8186 in a PXI 1045 chassis with multiple cards and we cannot get any video display out of it.
We have pulled the 8186 and reset the CMOS and it does power on, the HDD spins, and there is network activity.
We am using older Dell LCD panels that work on other devices.
We do not have another PXI chassis to test with, as that would be another good step to try.
Are there any "gotchas" that I might be missing.
Thank you.

Hi,
Thanks for contacting us. Is this a new system? If it is not a new system, have you made any changes to the system between now and the last known time the system worked? One thing to try would be to disconnect all the module from your system except the controller to see if one of the modules is malfunctioning and causing this behavior.
If the system is connected to a network and you know the computer name, you could try to connect remotely to it.
There also is the possibility that the device has malfunctioned and the video port is no longer functioning.
Please let me know any more information you can as well as the results of these troubleshooting steps.
Jon
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

Troubleshoting help needed: My iMac keeps crashing and restarting with a report detail: "spinlock application timed out" What can I do to fix this?timed out"

Troubleshooting help needed: My iMac keeps crashing and restarting with a notice: "Spinlock application timed out" What can I do?

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the page that opens.
Select the most recent panic log under System Diagnostic Reports. Post the contents — the text, please, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header and body of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.) Please don't post shutdownStall, spin, or hang reports.

Request timed out.- Error while opening a item in Blog

Hi,
   We have a blog in our share point portal which was running properly before few days.
We get Request Timed out error while opening an item in the blog. The list contains about
   3500 items
[HttpException (0x80004005): Request timed out.]
We were able to create a new item but not able to view the item.
When we check the server SQLSERVR.EXE takes more than 90% of the CPU Usage.
Please let me know how to resolve this issue.
Thanks,
Vanitha

Hi,
According to your description, Please check the RAM allocated to your SQL server. MOSS server needs 2GB RAM
to preform well. SQL requires 2GB RAM for optimum performance.
Messages like this are mainly due to lack of RAM Allocation.
Best Regards
David Hu

TNS-12535 Operation timed out

Hi
I am working on IBM AIX, Oracle 10.2.0.4 version.
Here I got the TNS-12535 error while running a report at particular time. (i.e 8:30 PM to 10:00 PM PST). But aftter this particular time it runs good.
There is no errors found in alert log file. The below is the error found in the sqlnet.log file.
Please help me to resolve this...
Time: 18-FEB-2011 17:05:53
Tracing not turned on.
Tns error struct:
ns main err code: 12535
TNS-12535: TNS:operation timed out
ns secondary err code: 12560
nt main err code: 505
TNS-00505: Operation timed out
nt secondary err code: 78
nt OS err code: 0
Client address: (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=host_name)(PORT=1521))
nt OS err code: 0
Thanks

Hi,
Nothing to investigate at the application side, there is everything to investigate at the network side.
Check the below points.
- is there any firewall in play
- is there any Network Address Translation into play
- have the correct ports been opened in the firewall
- is Oracle using random return ports (by default Oracle always uses 2 tcp/ip ports, the first one fixed, and configured in tnsnames.ora, the actual communication takes place on a radom port. If that is a problem at your site you need to fix that)
- You need to run netstat -r to identify which ports are actually used.
- Pavan kumar N

I cannot acess some of my emails. Thunderbird keeps saying "connection to SMTP server (email adress) timed out. What does that mean? What do I do please?

I purchased 2 new email, adresses a few weeks ago. Both were fine but a few days ago I was stopped sending and stopped receiving emails on the one. The message comes up on my screen "connection to SMTP server (followed by my email adress) timed out. That does not mean a thing to me. What should I do please?

Thankyou.
I had been asked by ICANN some days ago to do something but I thought it was a scam so ignored it. Most other users I have spoken to have never heard of ICANN or been asked to 'register' with them or whatever. Anyway, post writing to you I have now 'registered' with them . When I now click on my incoming email adress it just says "failed to connect to server" but why it fails I do not know.

My e-mails are not sending. "connection to SMTP server timed out." How do I get this working?

As of yesterday, I am receiving e-mails fine; however, unable to send. Everytime I try to send an e-mail, I get "Sending of message failed. The message could not be sent because the connection to SMTP server (my mail address) timed out. Try again or contact your network administrator.
I received help from lunarpages (they host my domain); however, they were unable to resolve the issue. They suggested something is blocking IP, or need to update Thunderbird, or there's a firewall there...
Help!!!
My clients are waiting for responses to e-mails!
Thank you.

To diagnose problems with Thunderbird, try one of the following:
*Restart Thunderbird with add-ons disabled (Thunderbird Safe Mode). On the Help menu, click on "Restart with Add-ons Disabled". If Thunderbird works like normal, there is an Add-on or Theme interfering with normal operations. You will need to re-enable add-ons one at a time until you locate the offender.
*Restart the operating system in '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_mode safe mode with Networking]'''. This loads only the very basics needed to start your computer while enabling an Internet connection. Click on your operating system for instructions on how to start in safe mode: [http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/windows-startup-settings-including-safe-mode Windows 8], [http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/start-computer-safe-mode#start-computer-safe-mode=windows-7 Windows 7], [http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/start-computer-safe-mode#start-computer-safe-mode=windows-vista Windows Vista], [http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/boot_failsafe.mspx?mfr=true" Windows XP], [http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1564 OSX]
; If safe mode for the operating system fixes the issue, there's other software in your computer that's causing problems. Possibilities include but not limited to: AV scanning, virus/malware, background downloads such as program updates.

PXI-1050 chassis timed out

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for