[Ken Streeter]

Originally Posted by darkshark0159

Upon powering up the robot, the power and status lights come on, and then the status light goes out. All normal, but then the power light goes out and the cRio is dead. Turn the robot off and on, the same thing happens again. Oh, low battery, right? I swap in a new battery, still the same problem. Maybe a software problem, I think. Boot in to safe mode, all is well. The cRio remains on. Right, so let me reformat. I begin reformatting, and after a bit the cRio just shuts off. Ahhhhhhhh!!! Now when I power up the cRio, the status light just sort of blinks and then it shuts off.

Any ideas, or should we just cut our losses and send it in for repair ASAP?

You should definitely call National Instruments tech support for FIRST. We called them last week regarding a malfunctioning cRIO, and their tech support was great. They told us exactly what tests to try, we tried the tests and confirmed the cRIO was bad. This was at about 3pm in the afternoon. They said they would send us a replacement cRIO -- it arrived at 10:30am the next morning! We then packed up the broken cRIO in the box that the replacement was sent in, stuck on the pre-addressed and pre-paid FedEx shipping label that National Instruments sent with the replacement cRIO and sent the broken cRIO straight back to National Instruments. We couldn't have asked for better support to get back up and running immediately!