The "Beige G3" is not the first generation/Nubus machines (7100,8100 etc). This is a PCI bus third generation system. Just took a 8100/110 with LV 5.1.1 out of service after 10 years of continuous running! Replaced it with a G4 and PCI bus cards and LV 7, worked with only *very* minor updates to the software (ie channel numbers and acquisition speed were different).
I have and am currently running LV 7, 6.1, 5.1.1 on such machines. What kind of failures are you seeing? As far as I know the NI-DAQ version has not been updated for a long time and may be running the same version under all the different LV versions. The one Beige G3 that I can think of with LV 7 is using a 6030 board (32 Differential channels, 100 kHz). As a shot in the dark: One thing I have found is that you cannot copy the NI-DAQ preferences from one machine to another. This will certainly crash NI-DAQ. Delete the "National Instruments" folder in the preferences and see if that helps. Make sure you have a clean install of newest version of NI-DAQ. Even though several releases had the same version number, some of the internal files were updated! Can you get any of the test panels updated? -Scott At 10:21 +0100 01/05/2004, Urs Lauterburg wrote: >I do run LV 6.1 on a beige G3 PowerMac with the first generation PowerPC processors. >These machines still have the NuBus bus though plus at some time of their lifetime a >processor upgrade from Sonnet was installed as well. So even if purchased in the >early nineties they still do their thing faithfully without breakdowns.... except >the need to change the clock battery once since the purchase. > >I have not tried to run LV 7 on that configuration but 6.1 runs fine. Maybe you just >need to reinstall the full NI-DAQ separately. This piece of software may be >downloaded from: > ><ftp://ftp.ni.com/support/daq/mac/ni-daq/6.6.0_%26_4.9.4/complete/NI-DAQ_6.6.x_4.9.x%28full%29.hqx> > >So if you have NuBus PowerMacs you need to install the 4.9.4 version, maybe this is >the problem: 6.6.0 is for PCI Macs. If you need me to verify I guess I could do it >for you, but I will have to install LV7 on one of those machines and I am not so sure >if I really want to do that. Yeah and I don't think a can of paint will help either, >sorry for this Jack > >>Has anyone successfully run NI-DAQ Configuration Utility and LV 7-generated VI's on >>a Beige Mac G3 with an E series MIO DAQ board? This software and board work fine on >>a Blue & White G3 and on two G4's, but fail on three different Beige G3's. >> >>National Instruments finds no such Beige G3 incompatibility in their database. >> >>TIA for any info, positive or negative.
