Learnings and best practices from working with NI DAQmx hardware.

In rare cases, it can happen that when starting the “NI MAX” a popup like in the screenshot below is displayed.

The refereed knowledge base article says the following about the cause of this problem: “NI MAX Database corruptions are rare, but may be caused when a system reboots without being properly shut down due to a power loss or a system crash.”

1. Reset the MAX database. From the KB article: From within NI MAX, select Tools » Reset Configuration Data. Confirm the warning dialog with “Yes”.

1. Reconfigure all needed device (especially the device names) DAQmx tasks.

The following can errors indicate a problem with the MAX database. Check MAX if one of these errors occur.

• Error code -229771 “Internal Software Error occurred in MIG software. Please contact National Instruments Support.”
  (e.g. in DAQmx Create Scale (Linear).vi)