Deployed code not responding

[Matt2081]

We set up our control system on a board just like it says in chapter 2 of the control system manual. We set up our classmate, and logged into the driver account. After turning on the board, the "communication" light on the classmate lit up, but the battery voltage area went from having several dashes to nothing at all. Since the "robot code" light was red, I thought we had to load some code in it first for the battery voltage to show up.

I logged into the developer and started a project. I downloaded the default project, but the joysticks did not respond. Confused, I created a new VI: a very basic one that simply opens a joystick, reads it in a loop and displays it with an indicator, and then closes the joystick after the loop (it also includes a start communications VI and a stop communications VI in the appropriate places). I deployed that, and none of the joysticks would read in any USB port.

I have been working with this for several days now, switching cables, re-imaging the cRIO, changing ports, etc. trying to get it to work. Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong? Has anyone else had this problem?