FRC LabVIEW install

[Joe Ross]

I had similar problems when I was out of disk space.

[artbot345]

That's not the problem but all of the not installed components give me the NI-VISTA error.

[artbot345]

Should I download and install this? http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/2185/lang/en

[mck1117]

I'm having the same problem on a Dell Studio 1458. I have plenty of disk space, and this is what the errors are in the installer:

LabVIEW Real-Time 8.6.1

Unsupported version of NI-VISA detected
A version of NI-VISA that is not supported on this operating system has been detected. You must cancel this installation and uninstall the older version before continuing. Refer to ni.com/vista for more information.

NI-RIO

Unsupported version of NI-VISA detected
A version of NI-VISA that is not supported on this operating system has been detected. You must cancel this installation and uninstall the older version before continuing. Visit ni.com/info and enter the Info Code CleanVista for more information.

[SuperS_5]

Is this a fresh install, or upgrade? Ensure that you are installing with administrator privileges. If you had administrator privileges, you may want to try uninstalling all NI components, and then use the MSIblast program to uninstall anything remaining. (MSIblast from the NI forums) Retry installing after a restart. (Remember to use administrator privileges for uninstalling/reinstalling)

[jhersh]

Originally Posted by mck1117

I'm having the same problem on a Dell Studio 1458. I have plenty of disk space, and this is what the errors are in the installer:

Are any of you trying to install on Windows 7 Starter? I know some of the drivers are not compatible with Windows 7 Starter.

[mck1117]

Nope. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate x64.

[mck1117]

After running MSIBlast, still no luck. Running the setup wizard gives the same errors.

[artbot345]

I'll still getting errors too and when I try to install NI-VISA 4.1 I get Unsupported version of NI-VISA detected.

[Carter12s]

I am also having a problem. I install Labview and everything appears to work, but when i start Labview it is not FRC edition, and I cannot access the WPI robotics library or the default templates. It appears to me that the FRC Tools are not installing so I try reinstalling them and the re-installation does not work. It cites no error and does not inform me of the failure until the very last step, where it presents the installation report, and tells me that "no software was installed" under any of the categories. I looked in the NI Uninstall/Or Modify application and it shows the FIRST Utilities as an uninstallable option. Has anyone else encountered and error like this? Or does anyone have any advice? I have run the install several times now, and i have completely uninstall-ed everything and started from scratch multiple times.

Computer Specs:
Dell with Winodows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
2 Core Pentium with 2.76 GHz
8 GB of RAM

[mck1117]

It seems like your problem is that you need to install the LabVIEW updates, and the FRC 2011 Utilities.

I found a solution to my problem (and artbot's) though:
In the registry, there was a key marking that NI-VISA 3.2 (!!) was installed. I have never had NI-VISA installed before, and I dont know where this came from. It was in HKLM\SOFTWARE\National Instruments\NI-VISA. There was a value named "CurrentVersion", which had its value set to 3.2. I uninstalled all of LabVIEW, removed all of the contents of the key "HKLM\SOFTWARE\National Instruments", reinstalled and it worked.

[Carter12s]

You are right SIR! Installing the Labview updates cured four separate computers of mine from being unable to recognize the FRC Utilities. I guess the two computers it worked on without the updates were flukes. It seems like the update really does resolve a lot of problems and should be installed whether you think your original install went correctly or not. Thanks for the help!

[artbot345]

How do I get to: "HKLM\SOFTWARE\National Instruments"? I did a C drive search and it did not find any folder named "HKLM".

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by artbot345

How do I get to: "HKLM\SOFTWARE\National Instruments"? I did a C drive search and it did not find any folder named "HKLM".

It's not in the filesystem. It's in the registry. You use the registry editor program to work with things in it. But if you don't know what you're doing, it's not a good idea to go messing with the registry. You can render your computer unusable if you do something wrong.