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Originally Posted by D Collins
We are connected directly to the cRIO via a crossover cable.
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This is probably not your problem since you said you've also tried it through the DS, but I'll post anyway in case others have this issue.
We initially tried to update the Rio firmware with a direct connection between the PC and the Rio, but that caused the Labview updater program to crash, returning some cryptic error about an unhandled exception or something. (we tried a few times). In the end, I decided this was probably due to the fact that when using a direct connection, the Rio reboots and when that happens the laptop thinks the network cable is unplugged (because the Rio shuts down its network port for a moment). I suspect the updater program is trying to communicate at some point when Windows thinks the network is unplugged and this causes an error which the updater fails to handle. I ended up connecting the laptop to the DS and the DS to the controller as recommended (just had to find another ethernet cable) and then it worked OK.