NI 2024 Beta Release 1 Feedback

[jonathandao0]

Had issues getting the NI 2024 Beta Release 1 to work properly, particularly flashing the 2024 roboRIO firmware using the roboRIO Imaging Tool. This happened across two different computers. These were the steps I performed and the issues I ran into when trying to install and run the NI 2024 Beta Release 1 software:

• Computers were running Windows 11 with the NI Game Tools 2023 installed. The installation process for the 2024 Beta Release 1 seemed to work okay, but when using the updated roboRIO Imaging Tool to update a roboRIO to the 2024 version, the imaging process failed, citing a corrupted firmware issue.
• Decided to uninstall the NI Game tools and then do a clean install of just the NI 2024 Beta Release 1. Uninstallation was done through Window's uninstall menu to uninstall the NI Package Manger and NI Software programs and seemed to complete successfully. On attempting a reinstall of the 2024 Beta Release 1, the process kept failing when getting to the step to install the NI Package Manager, citing no action needed to be done and closing the installer without installing the FRC Driver Station or roboRIO Imaging Tool. This was resolved by manually deleting the C:\ProgramData\National Instruments directory and then running the 2024 NI Beta Release 1 installer again to get it to complete.
• Once a clean install of the NI 2024 Beta Release 1 was done, I attempted to use the 2024 roboRIO Imaging Tool. The tool could not connect to the roboRIO. Checking the computer's network adapters, it seems that the release did not install the USB-Ethernet divers to communicate with the roboRIO over USB as the NI Network adapter did not show up.
• Uninstalled the NI 2024 Beta Release 1 again, along with manually deleting C:\ProgramData\National Instruments and did a clean install of the 2023 NI Game Tools, then a clean install of the 2024 Beta Release 1. This ultimately worked, installing all of the software correctly and allowing me to image a roboRIO to the 2024 Beta firmware.

[Kevin-OConnor]

Hi Jonathan, thanks for the feedback! It's not clear in your post if you rebooted the machine in question between any of the steps listed?

[jonathandao0]

For both computers on the initial install of the NI 2024 Beta Release 1, I did not reboot when the installer asked. When I first hit the corrupted firmware message, I then tried rebooting, but rebooting and attempting to flash the firmware again still had the corrupted firmware message. Once I got to the second bullet to uninstall the NI Game Tools to do a clean reinstall of the NI 2024 Beta Release 1, I restarted the computer whenever the installation/uninstallation tools asked.