Does anyone have any experience of using a GPIB-PCII card under Windows 98?

[Kcpvwill]

I've found an old GPIB-PCII card in a drawer and I'd like to be able to use it in a modern PC running Windows 98.

Has anyone any experience of doing this with any success

[NI-488.2 master]

You should be able to use this card on Windows 98 with the NI-488.2 for Windows version 1.7 driver. The PCII will not work with any windows NT variant.

[Kcpvwill]

I've tried NI-488.2 v1.7 and the card is recognised but fails sequential testing. I've tried checking the card using DOS drivers and "IBDIAG" and it passes OK.

I've done some more research and I now believe the problem is that the card is only NI-488.1 capable and cannot accept or understand NI-488.2 commands which are required by the modern versions of NI's drivers

[NI-488.2 master]

You may be having some sort of IRQ conflict in Windows. Be sure that you have the jumpers on the board configured as the Add GPIB Hardware Wizard has instructed you to configure them. What sort of failure did you get from the Troubleshooting Wizard?

[Kcpvwill]

Hardware Wizard asked for IRQ5, DMA3 and address 02B8, all of which I set. Windows 98 Hardware Manager reported no conflicts for these settings, but stated the card was not working and put a yellow "!" on the card icon.

The Troubleshooting Wizard says that the NI-488.2 software is verified OK, the GPIB hardware is verified OK but the interface fails the sequential test.

I've just had some confirmation from NI tech support that the GPIB-PCII card only recognises NI-488.1 and so is totally non-compatible with the modern software which only works with NI-488.2 compatible hardware.

I think I'm pretty much at the end of the road with this card.