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Unread 01-04-2011, 14:04
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Re: Spontaneous stopping

Lemiant, can you see the boot messages on the cRIO when you reboot or turn it on? The cRIO may be complaining about something else entirely.

We usually get cRIO messages in our IDE (NetBeans), but when things are really hosed up, that doesn't work.

The all-else-fails method is to hook a serial null modem cable (this was a royal pain for us to set up -- we use five consecutive converters and gender benders to get null modem serial male D9 to USB) from the serial port on the cRIO to a laptop running puTTY or other terminal console software. We can then control the cRIO from its "console," and when rebooting, see its messages as well as any we may have imbedded in our code.

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