Balluff BNI004A crashing Logix5000

[trm]

I have been attempting to find an answer for a couple weeks now and I am almost to the point of calling Rockwell, but I figured I'd give it one last ditch effort to see if anyone many have a clue as to what's going on...

A few weeks ago I was working on a minor program and added a Balluff BNI004A IO Link block to the program to run a stack light. No problems during the install, everything was working fine. As I was nearing the time to install the program, I was changing IP addresses and suddenly I could no longer open the properties of the module because it would crash Logix. Tried creating a new program and migrating the logic to it, and I as soon as I went to create the module it crashed Logix. Anything having to do with that creating or modifying that particular module in a program results in a crash. I have attempted to look at crash logs, but its empty. No other module I have come across causes a similar issue, and I have already reinstalled the EDS files for the module, and all of my RS Logix programs/versions (as fun as that was).

I'm about to pull out my hair. Any ideas what else may be causing this?

 

[jstolaruk]

How about some version detail: Studio, BNI firmware, PLC model, etc.

 

[trm]

Hey, thanks for the response.

The particular program I was working in and noticed the problem was in v32 of Studio. BNI hardware/firmware is 6.3 and 4.0 (maybe backwards, not sitting in front of it right now), and using a ControlLogix L71 processor just for benchtesting.

But this is happening when I open the properties menu for any of the BNI004A blocks we have in any program from v15 all the way to v33, across the spectrum of firmware/hardware, and irrelevant of processor. We have probably 1000 or more blocks across 50 or so programs.

 

[jstolaruk]

Have you downloaded the latest roll-up patch from RA and applied it? I know its a long shot but at least you'll have everything up to a known level.

 

[trm]

Its worth a shot. I'll try installing everything and see where it gets me.

 

[trm]

After a many grueling hours of installing tons of patches, I finally got everything installed all the way through the current roll-up patch for v35, and something in there managed to fix it. So, +1 to you jstolaruk. Thanks for the help!

 

[jstolaruk]

Sorry you had to do so many patches. After unpacking the patch.exe file, the Setup.exe will evaluate your system and patch what it "thinks" needs to be updated.

A patch roll-up is available for April, not sure if May is available yet.

Glad to hear you are back working.