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      This FAQ applies to versions 1.0.2447 and greater.

Symptoms

Attempting to perform an experiment from AfterMath on the Pine AFCBP1 bipotentiostat using the ISA-type National Instruments card (AT-MIO-16E-10) may result in the following error:

Experiment failed: "<experiment_name_here>". Instrument failure.

More details

This problem can be caused by a lack of DMA resources. This can be confirmed using either AfterMath or the National Instruments Measurement & Automation Explorer as shown below:

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The original cause of this failure occurs during the installation of the National Instruments interface board device drivers, and can also be seen in the Windows Device Manager:

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Solution

The problem can be fixed by using the Windows “Device Manager” as shown below.

See also the National Instruments website article about this problem here

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