topic 回复： PCI-GPIB is not recognized in Instrument Control (GPIB, Serial, VISA, IVI)

PCI-GPIB is not recognized

Dekay — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:45:06 GMT

I've installed a PCI-GPIB 488.2 board on a system with LV7.1, but the installation does not recognize the board. It is a used, supposedly working board. I've tried driver version 2.4. The operating system is XP. 'Device manager', 'hardware' gives a question mark for the PCI device and states that the driver is not installed. The GPIB installation wizard does not detect a GPIB interface. Any idea on how to determine which drivers go with the board, or any other diagnostics suggestions?

Re: PCI-GPIB is not recognized

markus kossmann — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:53:13 GMT

Are you also sure, that the PCI slot used for the PCI-GPIB is no damaged ? Did you try it in another slot ?

Re: PCI-GPIB is not recognized

nayer — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:05:51 GMT

Hey Dekay,
Try to remove the PCI-GPIB card, and uninstall the driver and reboot your computer. Install NI-488.2 version 2.4 and the shut down your computer and then plug in your card. It is allways a good practice to install the driver and then plug-in your hardware. Once the computer restarts Windows will pop-up a window of New hardware found and will then assign a correct driver to the PCI-GPIB card.
Regards,
Nikhil A.

Re: PCI-GPIB is not recognized

Dekay — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:54:37 GMT

I was able to make the board work by installing drivers from ICS-Electronics, and replacing the gpib-32.dll file in the windows/system32 directory with the version that came with the ICS driver. The board works with LV programs, but does not show up in Measurement and Automation Explorer. I don't know if it will cause problems later on, such as when upgrades are installed.

Previously, uninstalling the board drivers, shutting down the computer, removing the board, restarting, installing the NI drivers, shutting down, installing the board, and rebooting results in the windows installer message that it could not find a driver. Also, the Troublshooting Wizard says that no GPIB interfaces are configured on the system. The ICS drivers worked, though.

The board has a chip on it from ACCS Matchmaker, and PCI-488.2 at the top of the board. Let me know if there is a better solution, specific to this board.

Thanks

Re: PCI-GPIB is not recognized

Dennis_Knutson — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:15:56 GMT

You should have mentioned at the beginning that you were not using an NI board. You always have to install drivers from the correct manufacturer. You also shouldn't expect that a configuration utility from NI will work with non-NI boards. You'll only have problems in the future if you again try to install NI drivers.

Unless ICS includes a VISA driver for their board, you will not be able to use the VISA functions and the vast majority of instrument drivers require VISA.

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xxls — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:56:15 GMT

I have the same one.The main controller is C5933.Here is the picture.Is it came from ICS ?

http://cgi.ebay.it/MEASUREMENT-COMPUTING-PCI-488-2-GPIB-INTERFACE-NIB_W0QQitemZ290239811751QQihZ019QQcategoryZ97184QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

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xxls — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:07:14 GMT

I send message through the card but I only can read the DATA after 5 seconds.Why? And I can't read the DATA in LABVIEW.

Thanks.

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Re: 回复： Re: PCI-GPIB is not recognized

O_Proulx — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 14:31:29 GMT

Hello xxls,

I don't know anything about this PCI-GPIB, but from the companie's website, I guess you will need these drivers to communicate with the card in XP (also linked from this page). Howeve, you probably already have these drivers, since you can send messages to your board.

To use this device in LabVIEW, it seems you will need these LabVIEW libraries, which according to the website, com with the hardware. I suggest you contact Measurement Computing if no one else posts on this thread. (You can also look into purchasing an NI-PCI-GPIB ::))

In the future, I would suggest opening a new thread instead of posting to an old thread.

Let me know if this helps.

Message Edited by O_Proulx on 09-15-2008 10:27 AM

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xxls — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:38:54 GMT

Hello O_Proulx:

I will try .But why my DMM response delay?I send message but it maybe delay 5 seconds to response (even if after I send "TRAM HOLD" to it.)

Maybe a NI's card I must to buy.

Thanks a lot.

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Re: 回复： Re: 回复： Re: PCI-GPIB is not recognized

Dennis_Knutson — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:05:41 GMT

It would help if you explained how you are reading and writing to the instrument. You said you cannot get LabVIEW to work so what are you using? Also, you have not mentioned the make and model of the instrument.

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xxls — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:23:48 GMT

MY DMM is HP3457A. I send the message "ID?" to it through the driver of the card but a fearful delay occuured(after about 5seconds I still can receive "HP3457A"). And in MAX I can send the message to my DMM but when I press read from my DMM it shows timeout.

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Re: PCI-GPIB is not recognized

Dekay — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:10:33 GMT

If I recall correctly, I had to change the way the instrument was addressed from synchronous to asynchronous, or the other way around. Also, the ICS GPIB board sometimes is not recognized when starting the LV program, and the "ICS GPIB Keyboard" must be run once. This can be done without exiting LV.

Of course, the problem may lie in the communications configuration, but changing the way the data is read is quick to check. Right click on 'GPIB Read' to access the read method.

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xxls — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:37:54 GMT

Thanks.

But in MAX I can send the message to my DMM (I am sure the DMM have received)but when I press read it shows timeout.

Re: 回复： Re: PCI-GPIB is not recognized

Dennis_Knutson — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:32:41 GMT

I would actually be very surprised if MAX works at all. MAX is a utility program for NI hardware. You do not have NI hardware.

Re: PCI-GPIB is not recognized

Dekay — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:53:05 GMT

MAX does not work with the ICS board directly. Supposedly, ICS software has a 'Passport' to enable MAX to recognize the board. But, I have not had any success matching the instructions with the menu options available in the ICS software (true to the standards set by Microsoft). Not so much as a green card or work permit.

Overall, the ICS GPIB board is working fine as-is, but with the occasional glitch requiring communications to be re-established.

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xxls — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:46:57 GMT

It means that it is not my DMM's problem or incorrect setting? But it should be well when I just test in driver. Is the delay not the problem of setting?

Re: 回复： Re: PCI-GPIB is not recognized

Dennis_Knutson — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:13:47 GMT

Let's take a couple of steps back, forget about MAX, and clarify some things. If you have a utility program for the GPIB board, you should be able to communicate to the instrument. If you can't, you need to contact ICS or Measurement Computing (it's very unclear whose board who have). If you can communicate, start with a simple query such as *IDN? (if supported). There is no reason that this query should be delayed unless there is a problem with the board, driver, or instrument. If that does not take 5 seconds to respond, then try your other command. It that command takes 5 seconds, then it is a setting issue (and setting of the DMM is would suspect).

回复： PCI-GPIB is not recognized

xxls — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:38:39 GMT

I try to send message to the DMM.

It shows error: "Receive Error,ibsta=&HC164 <ERR TIMO CMPL REM CIC LACS>,iberr=6 EABO<Operation aborted>,ibcnt=0"

But when I press "Read Device Response",it can read the data correctly.

Does it the problem of GPIB handshake agreement? Which seting can bring to this?

Thanks a lot.

Re: 回复： PCI-GPIB is not recognized

Dennis_Knutson — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:09:57 GMT

I'm not at all familiar with the ICS/Measurement Computing utility program. Maybe you should contact them about correct configuration.

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xxls — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:44:13 GMT

I am sure the card configuration is correct . But I don't know if my DMM is correct.I want to know which setting can effect this.

Thanks.

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