Solution
Use NI Measurement & Automation Explorer (MAX) to first format your myRIO per these instructions:
1. Power on your myRIO and connect it to your computer.
2. Open NI MAX (NI Measurement and Automation Explorer).
3. Navigate to
Remote Systems, then find your myRIO device.
4. Right-click on the myRIO device and select
Format Disk from the context menu, as shown:
5. When asked about retaining network settings, you can choose the option to format and
Preserve the settings for all network adaptors.
- If an error message appears stating that the device was unable to restart, unplug the power to the myRIO and plug back in the power.
6. Launch the
Getting Started Wizard from the myRIO USB Monitor prompt that pops up when a myRIO is connected to the computer. This can be seen below:
7. Select to
Install the recommended software set. (Note: The Wizard may or may not show an installed software set depending on the current state of your myRIO.)
8. The installation will take some time. The myRIO may restart several times during installation, therefore the myRIO USB Monitor window will pop up multiple times.
9. In case a firmware update is available for your myRIO, it is installed automatically during this process.
10. By the end of this process, your myRIO will have all the required software installed.
If the -2147220312 error message persists after following the steps above. Format the myRIO from the command line as per
Format a NI Linux Real-Time Target from the Command Line (Linux Shell) , afterwards, disconnect and reconnect the myRIO to the computer, then Launch the
Getting Started Wizard from the myRIO USB Monitor prompt that pops up.