[Mr. Lim]

The waiting for reboot process can be finicky, mostly dependent on your computer's ethernet setup, and how quickly it recovers from having its Ethernet cable unplugged + plugged back in. Sounds weird but:

My suggestion is to connect a powered switch, hub or router between the computer you are imaging from, and the cRIO.

Here's why:

When the cRIO reboots, it cuts power to the ethernet port. If the computer is connected directly to the cRIO, this power drop causes the computer's ethernet interface to go down. In Windows, you see it say "Cable Unplugged" or something to that effect. When the cRIO powers back up, and power is restored to the Ethernet port, the computer detects this and tries to bring up its Ethernet interface too. On some computers, this takes a really long time, and the reboot signal seems to be missed - the computer ends up waiting forever.

With some kind of powered device in between, the computer's Ethernet interface always sees a live connection to the hub, switch or router, even while the cRIO is rebooting. Thus the computer's Ethernet interface never goes down, and the reboot signal comes in a lot more reliably.

I find I have a much higher success rate at imaging when doing this, and usually I just grab any robot radio lying around and patch both devices into it. As long as the router isn't configured strangely, it usually works fine.

Good luck!