GPIB and MAX

[Srm27]

Hi,

Not sure if this is the right place but I will start here and see where it leads.

This is somewhat along the lines of, MAX Dosen´t Detects My GPIB PCI,  http://forums.ni.com/t5/Instrument-Control-GPIB-Serial/MAX-Dosen-t-Detects-My-GPIB-PCI/m-p/1086117

I have an Agilent PCI GPIB, 82350B, card used to control a Keithley 2000 DMM.

The tester is used intermittently during the year and has been running for the time I came to see it first, now it has stopped working.

VISA Assistant for Agilent will communicate with the DMM and return the correct value, in this case resistance.

Teststand calls a Visual C++ 6.00 program to setup and read the value. This is where it breaks down as the DMM is set once to resistance and tries to make a reading but fails to do this.

I have MAX 3.1.1 (this is a Windows 2000,SP4) and it cannot see the GPIB card.

Should MAX see the GPIB card? I think the answer is no from the above link.

From the above solution it was suggested to use GPIB-488 Ver 9, but I cannot find it on the NI site, where can I fine it?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks for the help

Simon

[Dennis_Knutson]

The link is referring to a Keithley GPIB board and a driver from them. A driver from NI will do you no good for a GPIB board from Agilent. You can, however, follow the instructions about the tulip passport if you want to  make the board visible in MAX. I don't think it will make much difference unless you are using the IVI steps in TestStand.

[Srm27]

Hi,

I did try the tulip passport in MAX 3.1.1 but it still did not see the GPIB card.

I am trying to explore another way to access the DMM, if possible, to try to help to see where the problem may lay.

Thanks for the help

Simon

[Dennis_Knutson]

Should not matter if its seen in MAX or not. You said it was your C++ program that was talking to the instrument - not NI TestStand.