Need Help With 2009 Control System

[Mark McLeod]

If you fire up the FRC cRIO Imaging Tool again it should be able to find the cRIO and tell you what it's IP address is currently set to. The reason you can reimage the cRIO with a mixed up IP address is that the Imaging Tool
will look for the cRIO at several common potential addresses and display the IP address at the top if it locates the cRIO.
You don't have to reimage the cRIO with the tool, just start it up to see where the cRIO is.

The pinger utility rogeringalsbe refered to is posted in the whitepaper section at: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/2177


If you're still having trouble by this weekend is there any chance you can get to the workshop at Poly Tech in Brooklyn on Saturday with your system? We can work on it there.

[TDohse]

You should never need to turn on IP Reset.

As a general rule, the SAFE MODE switch should always be in the OFF position, for both reimaging and general usage.

There is one special case where users are required to turn Safe Mode on, and that is if the cRIO is severely corrupted (for instance, if you yank the power in the middle of reimaging) you can use Safe Mode with the imaging tool to reformat the device, after which you can turn SAFE MODE off and run the imaging tool again to set up the system correctly.

The problem professorx has run into is a misunderstanding of what the documentation was trying to convey. If you refer to the LabVIEW Robotics Programming Guide for FRC document, available by navigating to the National Instruments\LabVIEW8.5\manuals directory and opening FRC_Programming_Guide.pdf on page 3-5 under the heading "Considerations Before Running the CompactRIO Imaging Tool" it says:

Before running the CompactRIO Imaging Tool, ensure the SAFE MODE switch on the CompactRIO device is turned off. For routine use, do not use the CompactRIO Imaging Tool when the CompactRIO device is in SAFE MODE.
Severe corruptions of the software or settings on the CompactRIO device result in the device no longer functioning. If the CompactRIO device is corrupted or if the IP Address is set incorrectly, the device boots only in SAFE MODE. When this occurs, switch the device into SAFE MODE. The CompactRIO Imaging Tool offers to reformat the disk. After the disk has been reformatted, switch the CompactRIO device out of SAFE MODE, reboot, and run the CompactRIO Imaging Tool normally

[professorX]

I finally got the electronics to work.

We ended up calling National Instruments, the people that made the cRIO, and they told us the problem was that the switches on the cRIO were not in the correct positions. All of the switches were set to on even though it shows in the picture that it's off except for safe mode and ip reset. So basically it was a manufacture problem. The solution was to turn all the switches to the east (right).


Important note to other teams: if you really need help with the cRIO and you tried almost everything, please don't hesitate to call them. They get paid to help you.
The number is
1-866-511-6285
1-7pm Central and just tell them your team number!
(also the number to call to repair or buy more cRIOs)

Taken from here:
http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=10875

Thank you to everyone who has helped me and others! That is what FIRST is all about.

[crake]

Glad to hear it was figured out!