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Starting the NIFB Process
The NIFB process must be running any time you want to use your
PCMCIA-FBUS card as a Fieldbus interface to communicate between
the card and the bus.
(Windows 2000)
Start the NIFB process by selecting
Start»Programs»
National Instruments»NI-FBUS»Nifb
.
(Windows NT)
If the NIFB kernel-mode driver has not already been started,
you must do so manually by completing the following steps:
1.
Start the kernel mode driver NIFB by selecting
Start»Settings»
Control Panel»Devices»Nifb
and clicking the
Start
button.
2.
Start the NIFB process by selecting
Start»Programs
»
National
Instruments NIFB»Nifb
.
Note
You also can start the driver by entering
net start nifb
at the command prompt.
If you receive the message
System error 31 has occurred
, the cause is most likely
an interrupt or memory address conflict. Set the device to poll mode or change the memory
address value.
Configuring NIFB to Load at System Startup
If the driver and the process start up successfully, you can configure
the kernel-mode driver (Windows NT only) and NIFB process to start
automatically when you boot or restart your computer.
Note
To do this on a Windows NT machine, you must be running Windows NT 4.0
or later.
(Windows NT)
Select
Start»Settings»Control Panel»Devices»Nifb
. Click
the
StartUp
button. Select
Automatic
.
Note
In Windows 2000, the WDM driver and the process start up automatically.
