Watchdog problem - please help me diagnose and fix

[plnyyanks]

Originally Posted by NeatNit

1. In what position should the physical switches on the cRIO be?

All six DIP switches should be in the OFF position for normal operation. At times, you may want the Console Out switch to be on for debugging purposes. Look here for information on the cRIO-FRC (It goes into detail on DIP switches starting on page 12).

Originally Posted by NeatNit

2. Is there a place where I can download LabView and all the FRC tools and updates? I have the serial of course, and the CD as well, but for some reason I don't trust it... Call it paranoia.

2011 software updates can be found here.

Originally Posted by NeatNit

3. What is the proper way to transfer the program from the computer to the robot?
a. For one-time testing (ie run it once, and when we stop it it's gone from the cRIO)
b. For permenant instllation until replacement (ie for competition) (you can't probe this, right?)
Of course, we know how to do this as well, but again I don't trust that we've been doing it the right way all this time...

I'll answer this assuming you're using LabVIEW; if you're not, I'm not really helpful. For one time testing, you can run your program on the cRIO without loading it on the memory. From your Robot Main.vi, you can click the 'Run' arrow on the top left of the toolbar to run your code via your programming computer. To load the program onto the cRIO's memory, expand the Build Specifications menu and right click on FRC Bootup Deployment and select build. Wait for that to finish, and then repeat that process and click Run As Startup. The follow the prompts.