National Instruments NI CardBus-8310-to-PXI Expansion Additional Notes

Chapter 2 Hardware and Software Installation

NI CardBus-8310-to-PXI Expansion User Manual 2-10 ni.com

Cautions High voltages are present inside the chassis when the chassis power cord is

plugged into an electrical outlet. Disconnect the power cord from its source.

Before touching anything inside the chassis, move to an ESD station and follow proper

ESD procedure. Failure to do so may result in electrostatic discharge damaging the

computer or its components. For more information, refer to the Protecting Against

Electrostatic Discharge section of Chapter 1.

If there is a problem, be sure to turn off the power before making any

changes. If you are having trouble with the system, turn off the host

computer and the chassis, then check that all cards are seated properly and

all cables are connected.

If you are still having problems, check Appendix C, Troubleshooting NI

PXI-CardBus-8310 Cards, for more information.

Go to Start»Settings»Control Panel»Add/Remove Programs. Select the

NI CardBus-8310 driver, and then select Add/Remove.

Additional Notes

The following notes are observations made during the testing of the

NICardBus-831 0 and the NI PXI-8310.

To connect additional PXI chassis through MXI-4, please connect them to

the first PXI bus segment in the first chassis as shown in Figure 2-8. The

preferred connection style is a Star configuration, rather than a daisy-chain,

which is shown in Figure 2-9. The system will support daisy-chaining, but

only to a certain depth of PCI bus segments. Systems connected in a Star

configuration will also exhibit lower latency.