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Page 1: ...PXI NI 8171 Series User Manual NI 8171 Series User Manual August 2001 Edition Part Number 370382A 01 ...

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Page 3: ...ons or service failures caused by owner s failure to follow the National Instruments installation operation or maintenance instructions owner s modification of the product owner s abuse misuse or negligent acts and power failure or surges fire flood accident actions of third parties or other events outside reasonable control Copyright Under the copyright laws this publication may not be reproduced...

Page 4: ...ments could void the user s authority to operate the equipment under the FCC Rules Class A Federal Communications Commission This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environ...

Page 5: ...bought for OEMs if also available from an original manufacturer that also markets in the EU or where compliance is not required as for electrically benign apparatus or cables To obtain the DoC for this product click Declaration of Conformity at ni com hardref nsf This web site lists the DoCs by product family Select the appropriate product family followed by your product and a link to the DoC appe...

Page 6: ...nfiguration Installing the NI 8171 Series 2 1 How to Remove the Controller from the PXI Chassis 2 3 BIOS Setup 2 3 Entering BIOS Setup 2 3 Main Setup Menu 2 4 Advanced Setup Menu 2 5 PXI Setup Menu 2 7 Security Setup Menu 2 8 Boot Setup Menu 2 8 Exiting BIOS Setup 2 9 System CMOS 2 10 Using the Controllers with PXI 1020 and PXI 1025 Chassis 2 11 LCD Display 2 11 IDE CD ROM Drive 2 11 Chassis Mouse...

Page 7: ... COM2 3 3 Ethernet 3 4 Parallel Port 3 5 Universal Serial Bus 3 7 PS 2 3 8 Trigger 3 9 GPIB IEEE 488 2 3 10 Front Panel Features 3 11 Data Storage 3 11 PXI 1020 and PXI 1025 Chassis Interface 3 12 Chapter 4 Common Configuration Questions General Questions 4 1 Boot Options 4 1 Cables and Connections 4 2 Operating System and Software Driver Installation 4 3 Hard Drive Recovery 4 4 Chassis Configurat...

Page 8: ...Contents National Instruments Corporation ix NI 8171 Series User Manual Appendix A Specifications Appendix B Technical Support Resources Glossary Index ...

Page 9: ...is icon denotes a caution which advises you of precautions to take to avoid injury data loss or a system crash bold Bold text denotes items that you must select or click on in the software such as menu items and dialog box options Bold text also denotes parameter names italic Italic text denotes variables emphasis a cross reference or an introduction to a key concept This font also denotes text th...

Page 10: ...pecification PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group IEEE Standard P1284 1 1997 C MM Standard for Information Technology for Transport Independent Printer System Interface PCI Local Bus Specification Revision 2 2 PCI Special Interest Group PXI Specification Revision 2 0 National Instruments Corporation Serialized IRQ Support for PCI Systems Specification Revision 6 0 Compaq Computer et al ...

Page 11: ... levels of environmental performance required by the vibration shock temperature and humidity extremes of industrial environments PXI adds mandatory environmental testing and active cooling to the CompactPCI mechanical specification to ease system integration and ensure multivendor interoperability Additionally PXI meets the more specific needs of instrumentation users by adding an integrated trig...

Page 12: ...GPIB controller an integrated 1 44 MB floppy drive a 10 GB or larger hard drive and PXI 1020 PXI 1025 chassis support The NI 8175 has an 866 MHz processor all the standard I O a second serial port an integrated 1 44 MB floppy drive a 10 GB or larger hard drive and PXI 1020 1025 chassis support The NI 8174 has a 566 MHz processor all the standard I O and a 10 GB or larger hard drive Functional Over...

Page 13: ... DIMM SDRAM PC 133 Chip Set Graphics Memory Controller Hub PXI 1020 PXI 1025 TFT LCD Interface VGA Connector Socket 370 CPU Keyboard Mouse Internal Floppy Super I O COM 1 COM 2 LPT 1 Chip Set I O Controller Hub PXI Triggers 2 USB Connectors PXI 1020 1025 Interface USB to PS 2 10 100BaseT Ethernet PCI BUS SMB to PXI Trigger Watchdog SMB Hub Interface LPC Bus PS 2 PCI Bus XBus ...

Page 14: ... the PCI bus USB IDE LPC and Ethernet ports The USB connector connects the chip set to the Universal Serial Bus interface The PXI connector connects the NI 8171 series to the PXI CompactPCI backplane The Keyboard Mouse block contains the PS 2 keyboard and mouse interface The Super I O block represents the other peripherals supplied by the NI 8171 series The NI 8171 series has up to two serial port...

Page 15: ...easurement Studio application programs and instrument drivers to ease your programming task These standardized programs match the modular virtual instrument capability of PXI and can reduce your PXI software development time These programs feature extensive libraries of GPIB Serial and VXI instrument drivers written to take full advantage of direct PXI control LabVIEW and Measurement Studio includ...

Page 16: ...tWorks for Visual Basic is a collection of ActiveX controls designed for building virtual instrumentation systems Based on ActiveX technology ComponentWorks controls are configured through simple property pages You can use the ComponentWorks GPIB Serial and VISA I O controls and property pages to set up communication with your instruments ComponentWorks for Visual C takes advantage of integrated C...

Page 17: ...m controller slot Slot 1 in the chassis 3 Touch the metal part of the case to discharge any static electricity that might be on your clothes or body 4 Make sure the injector ejector handle is in its downward position Align the NI 8171 series with the card guides on the top and bottom of the system controller slot Caution Do not raise the injector ejector handle as you insert the NI 8171 series The...

Page 18: ...ideo cable to the VGA connector 11 Connect devices to ports as required by your system configuration 12 Power on the chassis 13 Verify that the controller boots If the controller does not boot see the What if the NI 8171 series does not boot section in Chapter 5 Troubleshooting Figure 2 1 shows an NI 8176 installed in the system controller slot of a National Instruments PXI 1000 chassis You can pl...

Page 19: ...ller ships with default settings that work well for most configurations Caution Changing BIOS settings may lead to incorrect controller behavior and possibly an unbootable controller If this happens follow the instructions for restoring default settings in the System CMOS section In general do not change a setting unless you are absolutely certain what it does Entering BIOS Setup To start the BIOS...

Page 20: ...ating systems also include a way to change this setting Use and in conjunction with Enter to change these values DMI Event Logging This setting brings up the DMI Event Logging submenu see the DMI Event Logging Submenu section Keyboard Required to Boot When Yes a missing or malfunctioning keyboard causes the BIOS to halt with an error When No the BIOS allows booting without a keyboard and you can a...

Page 21: ...act on system performance The default is Enabled Advanced Setup Menu This menu contains BIOS settings that normally do not require modification If you have specific problems such as unbootable disks or resource conflicts you may need to examine these settings Caution Changing settings in this menu may result in an unstable or unbootable controller If this happens follow the procedures outlined in ...

Page 22: ...efault configurations to the front panel peripherals of an NI 8171 series controller Normally you do not need to modify these settings as the factory default settings provide the most compatible and optimal configuration possible Serial Port A B This setting enables or disables COM1 and COM2 respectively You can also change this setting to Enabled and modify the base address and Interrupt Request ...

Page 23: ...backplane as well as enable the LCD display for a PXI 1020 or PXI 1025 chassis Normally you do not need to modify these settings However other sections of this manual may indicate that modifications are necessary and may lead to unpredictable behavior INTP Routing You can route INTP to ISA IRQ 14 for use by a PXI device functioning as a Primary IDE Controller The default setting is Not Routed INTS...

Page 24: ...access to the BIOS setup screen and booting If you enter BIOS setup using the user password the only BIOS setting you can modify is the user password The default is no password Password on Boot This setting controls whether the controller requires a supervisor or user password to boot an operating system If you enter the supervisor password on boot you have supervisor level diskette access If you ...

Page 25: ...g settings Exit Saving Changes Any changes made to BIOS settings are stored in the battery backed System CMOS The setup program then exits and reboots the controller Exit Discarding Changes Any changes made to BIOS settings during this session of the BIOS setup program are discarded The setup program then exits and boots the controller without rebooting first Load Setup Defaults This setting resto...

Page 26: ...ntents 1 Turn off power 2 Remove the controller from the chassis 3 Move the jumper on J1 from pins 1 2 to pins 2 3 as shown in Figure 2 2 4 Wait 1 second Move the jumper back to pins 1 2 5 Reinstall the controller in the chassis Caution Do not leave the jumper on pins 2 3 Doing so decreases battery life Figure 2 2 Clearing the CMOS Contents 1 Normal Operation Default 2 Clear CMOS Contents 3 Pin 1 ...

Page 27: ...he message Press DEL to enter SETUP appears press Delete or Del on the numeric keypad The message Entering Setup appears and the setup program is loaded after a short delay 4 In the PXI Setup menu set the LCD chassis setting to the correct value PXI 1020 Enables the LCD display and sets the resolution to 640 480 PXI 1025 Enables the LCD display for the PXI 1025 chassis and sets the resolution to 8...

Page 28: ...nized into several levels In the images directory itself you will find a manuals directory an os directory and directories for each computer peripheral The manuals directory contains quick reference guides technical reference manuals and National Instruments software manuals all in Adobe Acrobat format To access any manual change your directory to c images pxi8171 manuals and list the contents of ...

Page 29: ...ity is available from National Instruments Contact National Instruments for more information Upgrading RAM You can change the amount of installed RAM on the NI 8171 series by upgrading the SO DIMM To upgrade the RAM remove the NI 8171 series from the PXI chassis Remove the old SO DIMM module and install the new SO DIMM in the socket as shown in Figure 2 3 National Instruments offers the following ...

Page 30: ...thods for recovering the hard disk to its original state Recovery from a CD ROM These steps apply to a USB CD ROM IDE CD ROM when using a PXI 1020 or PXI 1025 chassis or SCSI CD ROM drive when a SCSI adapter is installed To recover the hard disk from a CD ROM 1 Load the recovery CD into the CD ROM drive 2 Press Esc during the BIOS POST After POST a boot menu is displayed Select the CD ROM drive 1 ...

Page 31: ...t utility from the a drive 4 Map the shared CD ROM drive to K 5 Run k recover bat Follow the prompts to recover the hard drive Installing an OS NI 8171 series controllers include a preinstalled OS In some cases you may want to reinstall the OS or install a different OS When doing so considering the following guidelines Installing from a CD ROM Although the NI 8171 series can boot from a USB CD ROM...

Page 32: ...rivers and a network boot disk example are on the recovery CD 2 Use another PC on the network with a CD ROM drive Share the drive and load the OS installation CD 3 Boot the NI 8171 series using the network boot disk 4 Run the net utility from the a drive Map the shared CD ROM drive 5 Run the OS setup program from the mapped drive or copy the CD ROM image to the hard drive and run the OS setup prog...

Page 33: ...Series Models Video 15 pin DSUB standard VGA Integrated with Dynamic Video Memory All Serial COM1 RS 232 Serial Port 9 pin DSUB 16550 serial port All Serial COM2 RS 232 Serial Port 9 pin DSUB 16550 serial port NI 8176 and NI 8175 10 100 Ethernet Ethernet Ethernet network connection All Parallel Parallel Port IEEE 1284 Extended capabilities All USB 4 pin Series A receptacle Universal Serial Bus two...

Page 34: ...ribes the VGA connector signals AMP manufactures a mating connector with part numbers 748364 1 housing and 748333 2 pin contact Figure 3 1 VGA Connector Location and Pinout Table 3 2 VGA Connector Signals Pin Signal Name Signal Description 1 R Red 2 G Green 3 B Blue 4 NC Not Connected 5 GND Ground 6 GND Ground 7 GND Ground 8 GND Ground 9 5V 5 V 10 GND Ground VGA 11 6 1 15 10 5 ...

Page 35: ... manufactures a serial port mating connector part number 745491 5 Figure 3 2 COM1 and COM2 Connector Location and Pinout 11 NC Not Connected 12 SD Serial Data 13 HSync Horizontal Sync 14 VSync Vertical Sync 15 SC Serial Clock Table 3 3 COM1 and COM2 Connector Signals Pin Signal Name Signal Description 1 DCD Data Carrier Detect 2 RXD Receive Data 3 TXD Transmit Data Table 3 2 VGA Connector Signals ...

Page 36: ...ists and describes the Ethernet connector signals AMP manufactures a mating connector part number 554739 1 Figure 3 3 Ethernet Connector Location and Pinout 4 DTR Data Terminal Ready 5 GND Ground 6 DSR Data Set Ready 7 RTS Ready to Send 8 CTS Clear to Send 9 RI Ring Indicator Table 3 3 COM1 and COM2 Connector Signals Continued Pin Signal Name Signal Description Ethernet 1 8 ...

Page 37: ... series Table 3 5 lists and describes the IEEE 1284 connector signals AMP manufactures a parallel port compatible connector part number 747052 2 Figure 3 4 Parallel Port Connector Location and Pinout Table 3 4 Ethernet Connector Signals Pin Signal Description 1 Differential Transmit 2 Differential Transmit 3 Differential Receive 4 NC 5 NC 6 Differential Receive 7 NC 8 NC Parallel Port 1 18 19 36 ...

Page 38: ...1 4 FAULT Fault WDATA Write Disk Data 5 ERROR Error HDSEL Head Select 6 PD0 Data Bit 0 Index Index Pulse Input 7 PD1 Data Bit 1 TRK0 Track 0 8 PD 2 Data Bit 2 WRTPRT Write Protected 9 PD3 Data Bit 3 RDATA Read Disk Data 10 PD4 Data Bit 4 DSKCHG Disk Change 11 PD5 Data Bit 5 Not Used 12 PD6 Data Bit 6 MTR0 Motor on Disk 0 13 PD7 Data Bit 7 Not Used 14 INIT Initialize Printer DIR Step Direction 15 S...

Page 39: ...e Universal Serial Bus USB connector on the NI 8171 series Table 3 6 lists and describes the USB connector signals AMP manufactures a USB mating connector part number 787633 Figure 3 5 USB Connector Location and Pinout Table 3 6 USB Connector Signals Pin Signal Name Signal Description 1 VCC Cable Power 5 V 2 Data USB Data 3 Data USB Data 4 GND Ground USB 4 1 ...

Page 40: ...171 series use the Y splitter adapter cable see Figure 4 1 in Chapter 4 Common Configuration Questions included with your controller Figure 3 6 PS 2 Connector Location and Pinout Table 3 7 PS 2 Connector Signals Pin Signal Name Signal Description Y Splitter Keyboard Y Splitter Mouse 1 DATA Data Keyboard Data Keyboard Data Mouse 2 NC Data Mouse NC NC 3 GND Ground GND GND 4 5V 5 V 5 5 5 CLK Clock Ke...

Page 41: ...r connection for routing PXI triggers to or from the backplane trigger bus Figure 3 7 shows the TRG connector location on the NI 8171 series Table 3 8 lists and describes the trigger connector signals Figure 3 7 TRG Connector Location and Pinout Table 3 8 TRG Connector Signals Pin Signal Name Signal Description 1 TRIG Trigger 2 Shield GND Ground 1 2 ...

Page 42: ...nals AMP manufactures a GPIB mating connector part number 554349 01 Figure 3 8 GPIB Connector Location and Pinout Table 3 9 GPIB Connector Signals Pin Signal Name Signal Description 1 DIO1 Data Bit 1 2 DIO2 Data Bit 2 3 DIO3 Data Bit 3 4 DIO4 Data Bit 4 5 EOI End or Identify 6 DAV Data Valid 7 NRFD Not Ready for Data 8 NDAC Not Data Accepted 9 IFC Interface Clear 10 SRQ Service Request 11 ATN Atte...

Page 43: ...is on and reset is no longer asserted The DRIVE LED indicates when an access to the internal hard disk is occurring Data Storage The NI 8171 series has the following data storage features Internal IDE hard drive 2 5 in notebook hard drive Supports up to ATA 5 UDMA 100 1 44 MB floppy disk USB storage support USB CD ROM or floppy drive 12 SHIELD Chassis ground 13 DIO5 Data Bit 5 14 DIO6 Data Bit 6 1...

Page 44: ...ntrollers interface directly to following devices on the National Instruments PXI 1020 and PXI 1025 chassis IDE CD ROM Integrated mouse and keyboard via integrated USB to PS2 adapter LCD display For more information see the Using the Controllers with PXI 1020 and PXI 1025 Chassis section in Chapter 2 Installation and Configuration ...

Page 45: ...NI 8171 series How do I check the configuration of the memory floppy drive hard drive time date and so on You can view these parameters in the BIOS setup To enter the BIOS setup reboot the NI 8171 series and press Delete during the memory tests See the Entering BIOS Setup section in Chapter 2 Installation and Configuration for more information Can I use the internal IDE drive and an external SCSI ...

Page 46: ...d by device type You can set the boot order using and Set the order by device type and set the order for the devices listed within the device type To boot from a different device without permanently changing the boot order press Esc during POST After the BIOS completes the POST and just before the controller boots the OS the Boot menu is displayed You can select the device type you want to boot fr...

Page 47: ...o I install or reinstall the Ethernet driver See the Drivers txt file on the hard drive or recovery CD ROM How do I install or reinstall the GPIB driver 1 The best way to set up GPIB is to set up networking on your controller so you can access ni com to download the latest drivers You can access both of these drivers by going to the current Drivers and Updates page 2 Once these drivers are install...

Page 48: ...sing a PXI 1020 or PXI 1025 chassis or SCSI CD ROM drive when a SCSI adapter is installed To recover the hard disk from a CD ROM 1 Load the recovery CD into the CD ROM drive 2 Press Esc during the BIOS POST After POST a boot menu is displayed Select the CD ROM drive 3 The BIOS boots from CD ROM drive Follow the prompts to recover the hard drive Note Not all CD ROMs are bootable with the NI 8171 se...

Page 49: ... connector on the NI 8171 series controller 3 Power on the chassis and enter the BIOS setup program during the boot When the message Press DEL to enter SETUP appears press Delete or Del on the numeric keypad The message Entering Setup appears and the setup program is loaded after a short delay 4 In the PXI Setup menu set the LCD chassis setting to the correct value PXI 1020 Enables the LCD display...

Page 50: ...nt Automation Explorer MAX to identify the slot number for each board in the chassis You need the correct pxisys ini file for your chassis You can find these files at ni com support pxisupp htm Some chassis ini files are also included on the PXI System Initialization for NI 8171 floppy disk included with the NI 8171 series controller Copy the file to the C WINNT directory Upgrade Information How d...

Page 51: ...ollow the instructions on the Web site Where do I get the latest software drivers You can download the latest drivers from ni com support pxisupp htm My NI 8174 does not have an internal floppy drive Is there a way to use an external drive Yes The NI 8171 series controllers support and can boot from USB floppy drives A USB floppy drive will not work with Windows NT4 but will work with Windows 2000...

Page 52: ...indows NT4 than on Windows 2000 PXI Configuration How do I use the SMB trigger on the front panel The SMB connector on the NI 8171 series front panel can connect to or from any PXI backplane trigger line through software A trigger allocation process is needed to prevent two resources from connecting to the same trigger line resulting in the trigger being double driven and possibly damaging the har...

Page 53: ...ote the last screen output that you saw for reference when consulting National Instruments technical support What has changed about the system Did you recently move the system Was there electrical storm activity Did you recently add a new module memory chip or piece of software Things to Try Make sure the chassis is plugged in to a working power source Check any fuses or circuit breakers in the ch...

Page 54: ...icular module is not in my chassis The most common cause of this is a damaged module Try the module in a different chassis or with a different controller Also remove any external cables or terminal blocks connected to the system If the module does not work in these cases it is likely damaged Contact the module manufacturer for further troubleshooting See the KnowledgeBase or product manuals sectio...

Page 55: ...0 or PXI 1025 chassis be sure the video driver is installed If it is not see the Drivers txt file on the hard drive or recovery CD ROM What if there is a power loss during a BIOS update Create a crisis recovery disk Unzip crisis zip on the recovery CD Insert a blank floppy disk in the PC Run crisis exe or Wincrisis exe in Windows Follow the instructions to create the BIOS recovery floppy disk Inse...

Page 56: ... embedded computers NI 8176 Electrical Physical Board dimensions PXI 3U size module 8 1 by 13 by 21 6 cm 3 2 by 5 1 by 8 5 in Slot requirements One system slot plus three controller expansion slots Compatibility Fully compatible with PXI specification MTBF 169 000 h Weight 1 18 Kg 2 6 lb typical Voltage V Current A Typical Maximum 3 3 3 A 4 A 5 3 8 A 6 A 12 0 01 A 0 05 A 12 0 A 0 A ...

Page 57: ...te this device with shielded cabling In addition all covers and filler panels must be installed Refer to the Declaration of Conformity DoC for this product for any additional regulatory compliance information To obtain the DoC for this product click Declaration of Conformity at ni com hardref nsf This Web site lists the DoCs by product family Select the appropriate product family followed by your ...

Page 58: ... A verified EC verified Functional shock 30 g peak half sine 11 ms pulse Random vibration 5 to 500 Hz 0 3 grms operating 5 to 500 Hz 2 4 grms nonoperating Note For full EMC compliance you must operate this device with shielded cabling In addition all covers and filler panels must be installed Refer to the Declaration of Conformity DoC for this product for any additional regulatory compliance infor...

Page 59: ...sion slots Compatibility Fully compatible with PXI specification MTBF 226 000 h Weight 0 64 Kg 1 41 lb typical Environmental Temperature 0 to 50 C operating 20 to 60 C storage Relative humidity 20 to 80 noncondensing operating 5 to 95 noncondensing storage EMI FCC Class A verified EC verified Functional shock 30 g peak half sine 11 ms pulse Voltage V Current A Typical Maximum 3 3 3 A 4 3 A 5 2 A 3...

Page 60: ... all covers and filler panels must be installed Refer to the Declaration of Conformity DoC for this product for any additional regulatory compliance information To obtain the DoC for this product click Declaration of Conformity at ni com hardref nsf This Web site lists the DoCs by product family Select the appropriate product family followed by your product and a link to the DoC appears in Adobe A...

Page 61: ...ss the latest example programs system configurators tutorials technical news as well as a community of developers ready to share their own techniques Customer Education National Instruments provides a number of alternatives to satisfy your training needs from self paced tutorials videos and interactive CDs to instructor led hands on courses at locations around the world Visit the Customer Educatio...

Page 62: ...b sites from the Worldwide Offices section of ni com Branch office Web sites provide up to date contact information support phone numbers e mail addresses and current events If you have searched the technical support resources on our Web site and still cannot find the answers you need contact your local office or National Instruments corporate Phone numbers for our worldwide offices are listed at ...

Page 63: ...µ micro 10 6 m milli 10 3 k kilo 103 M mega 106 G giga 109 t tera 1012 Symbols degrees Ω ohms percent A A amperes AC Alternating Current ASIC application specific integrated circuit B B bytes backplane An assembly typically a printed circuit board with connectors and signal paths that bus the connector pins ...

Page 64: ...ndustrial and or embedded applications that require a more robust mechanical form factor than desktop PCI CompactPCI provides a standard form factor for those applications requiring the high performance of PCI as well as the small size and ruggedness of a rack mount system D DC Direct Current DIMM Dual In line Memory Module DMA Direct Memory Access a method by which data is transferred between dev...

Page 65: ... Enhanced Parallel Port expansion ROM An onboard EEPROM that may contain device specific initialization and system boot functionality F FCC Federal Communications Commission G g 1 grams 2 A measure of acceleration equal to 9 8 m s2 GPIB General Purpose Interface Bus IEEE 488 gRMS A measure of random vibration The root mean square of acceleration levels in a random vibration test profile H Hz hertz...

Page 66: ...unication between machines and users IRQ Interrupt signal ISA Industry Standard Architecture the original PC bus architecture specifically the 16 bit AT bus K KB kilobytes of memory L LAN Local Area Network communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area It is made up of servers workstations a network operating system and a communications link LED light emitting diode ...

Page 67: ...A Personal Computer Memory Card International Association peripheral any hardware device connected to a computer such as a monitor keyboard printer plotter disk or tape drive graphics tablet scanner mouse and so on POSC Power On Self Configuration PXI PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation an open implementation of CompactPCI that adds electrical features that meet the high performance requirements of...

Page 68: ... SO DIMM Small Outline Dual In line Memory Module SRAM Static RAM a memory chip that requires power to hold its content It does not require refresh circuitry as a dynamic RAM chip but it does take up more space and uses more power ST Start Trigger Star Trigger Slot This slot is located at Slot 2 in a PXI mainframe and has a dedicated trigger line between each peripheral slot This slot would be use...

Page 69: ...nd pinout figure 3 3 connector signals table 3 3 common configuration questions boot options 4 1 cables and connections 4 2 chassis configuration 4 5 driver installation 4 3 general questions 4 1 hard drive recovery 4 4 operating system 4 3 PXI configuration 4 8 upgrade information 4 6 Windows NT4 4 8 CompactPCI specification 1 1 ComponentWorks 1 6 ComponentWorks 1 6 configuration common questions...

Page 70: ...ing external floppy drive 4 7 front panel connectors 3 1 features 3 11 functional overview of NI 8171 series 1 2 G GPIB IEEE 488 2 3 10 connector location and pinout figure 3 10 connector signals table 3 10 driver installation 4 3 H hard drive 3 11 files and directories installed on 2 12 recovery 2 14 5 2 from network 2 15 from USB CD ROM 2 14 restoring image 4 4 I IDE controller using SCSI hard d...

Page 71: ...ectors 3 1 COM1 and COM2 connectors and signals 3 3 GPIB IEEE 488 2 connector and signals 3 10 parallel port connector and signals 3 5 PS 2 connector and signals 3 8 trigger connector and signals 3 9 Universal Serial Bus USB connector and signals 3 7 VGA connector and signals table 3 2 data storage 3 11 front panel features 3 11 LEDs 4 1 system reset pushbutton 3 11 functional overview 1 2 hard dr...

Page 72: ... mouse and keyboard into controller 4 2 PXI connectors function logic block 1 4 PXI features 2 13 PXI Setup menu 2 7 PXI trigger connectivity 2 13 PXI 1020 and PXI 1025 using NI 8171 series with 2 11 3 12 4 5 PXI 8220 using NI 8171 series with 4 8 pxisys ini file 4 6 R RAM SO DIMMs from National Instruments note 2 13 4 6 upgrading 2 13 4 6 related documentation xii S Security Setup menu 2 8 serial...

Page 73: ... recovery 5 2 power loss during BIOS update 5 3 video display 5 2 5 3 U Universal Serial Bus USB 3 1 3 7 connector function 1 4 connector location and pinout figure 3 7 connector signals table 3 7 overview table 3 1 Windows NT4 support 4 8 V VGA connector signals table 3 2 location and pinout figure 3 2 overview table 3 1 video 3 1 See also VGA changing resolution 5 3 driver installation 4 3 W Web...

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