[Alan Anderson]

Let's try to find out where things aren't going as they should. Can you go through the steps to Deploy and Run as Startup, taking notes on what you're doing and what messages appear on screen as you go?

One thing to check first is that you specified the correct IP address when you created the Robot project. It'll be listed in parentheses on the "RT CompactRIO Target" line in the Project Explorer. If that's not right, fix it (right-click and choose Properties, then put the proper value in the IP Address / DNS Name field in the General category) and try again.