cRIO Not Working?!?

[JohnFogarty]

I am a new programmer and I was using the Getting Started Manual and so I wired the robot and by accident burned out the Analog Breakout board in Slot 1, I know quiite n00bish. anyway I am ordering a new one. btw I made sure everthing was wired correctly so still this next part is confusing. I went through the cRIO image tool image tool to set it up for LabVIEW and it completed it right, I rebooted and still all seemed ok. I tried downloading the example Tank Drive hitting run when i open the VI. It loaded the program into the cRIO and it was succesfull. Though when I moved the joysticks nothing happened. Then i discoved the meaning of the Digital Sidecar's LED light..... it was blinking rapid 200ms on 200ms off which in the manual says System error: No driver's station
communication, bad cRIO Image, bad team ID, extensive communication errors. I connected it to the driver station and the robot, and joysticks and everything were green except Robot Code. I had a Vet. of the team look at it and he ran a relay test and said it wasn't getting the code correctly. I tried re-imaging again and rebooting it and still got the rapid LED Blinking. So now i am lost and have no idea. I have tried using 2 computers one being the classmate and the other being my HP Pavilion running Windows 7. HELP HELP HELP!

[etphonehome]

you said you were using a driver station in there... do you mean one of the 2009 blue boxes that says "driver station" ? If so, the 2010 cRIO image won't be compatible with that. You're supposed to use you classmate pc AS the driver station this year, it comes preloaded with a "driver" username that goes straight to driver station mode.

[JohnFogarty]

i know that..i am using the classmate and i tried the downloadable PC version tooo

[Alan Anderson]

I tried downloading the example Tank Drive hitting run when i open the VI. It loaded the program into the cRIO and it was succesfull. Though when I moved the joysticks nothing happened...

(Warning: I haven't looked at the example LabVIEW fragments this year, so what I have to say here might be out of date.)

The examples need to be copied into a full robot project in order for them to work. If you're not running Robot Main.vi, the proper communication won't take place.

[Mike AA]

When you reflashed the cRio did you get version 19 or something else? If something else redownload offline and reflash the cRio.

[richwong]

We had the same problem. Did you build the code and set it to run on startup? Try following the directions here: http://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-8973

[Joe Ross]

(Warning: I haven't looked at the example LabVIEW fragments this year, so what I have to say here might be out of date.)

The examples need to be copied into a full robot project in order for them to work. If you're not running Robot Main.vi, the proper communication won't take place.

They seem to have done a better job in the examples this year adding the DS communication. I haven't exhaustively checked every example, but the ones I did check had it.