Thank you for such a quick reply. I went to format the cRIO and take a screen shot, but it worked... and the worst part is I don't know why. Now it will allow me to flash it and I can ping it, but now it does not let me upload code to it. the error is "waiting to connect to ota command server". this form
http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=13995 says that the image and the software need to be updated, but they are all up to date.