GPIB interfaces sequentially verified

[DanX]

I am trying to install a GPIB board in a Win2000 machine with vers. 1.7 of NI488.2 software. There is also an IMAQ board, two DAQ boards (one manufactured by NI), and a network card in the other PCI slots. All the other boards work. The installation wizard fails on the third part ("GPIB interfaces sequentially verified"). There are no instruments connected and I am pretty sure there is no resource conflict although several of the instruments are sharing IRQ9. I cannot change the resources anyway even when I am logged on as administrator. I think this may have to do with the PnP nature of the machine. I have re-installed both the software and the board. I have tested another GPIB board that I know works in my com
puter and it doesn't work. I have tested my GPIB board in another computer and it works fine. From these two tests it is pretty clear it is not the board but the computer. Nothing else I do works. HELP!

DanX

[Ben]

Hi DanX,

Have done anything to prove to yourself that that slot in the PC is good?

If the slot is good, have you tried getting the GPIB working before installing the other interfaces?

I will have to admit that sometimes the order in which boards are added to a machine makes a difference in how PnP assigns resources.

I hope this helps,

Ben

[Kim L]

DanX,
Make sure that you do not have a cable or instrument attached when running diagnostics. See the link below.

http://ae.natinst.com/operations/ae/public.nsf/fca7838c4500dc10862567a100753500/9ca77cb4b11c86058625692f0067eec4?OpenDocument

Also, you may try communicating with the instrument through Measurement and Automation Explorer. There could be a problem with the test even if the board is set up properly.

Kim L.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

[CT 125]

I have a similar problem. We are trying to use Win XP and a PCI-GPIB card with LabVIEW 6.02 (V. 1.6 of NI488.2). The card has been used in a Macintosh before with no problems (It is at least 4 years old). I have installed the cards in 3 different PCI slots but I always get conflicting resources (at least this is the problem the wizard reports). However, when I check if there are any resource conflicts, I can't find any. I cannot change the resources since the card is PnP. One solution might be to disable PnP in BIOS, but should this really be necessary?
If I connect the cable and an instrument to the computer and run a program the program will hang up.
I have removed sound-cards and other non-vital components to get rid of potential resource conflicts and to free up I
RQ, but I have had no luck so far. Does anyone have any other ideas?

Thanks!

/CT

[sliverFish]

I am having this problem as well. I am using Windows 98 OS and a PCII/IIA card. It was passing the 3 tests and communicating with the instrument, then I renamed my DEV1 to FL  to run the software that came with the instrument. The software kept freezing up so I had to shut down the computer and now when it comes up the I got a FL not found error running the software. Going back to the getting started wizard for GPIB the board is now failing the last test even though I've not changed the hardware configuration. I may go back and uninstall NI488 version 1.7 and reinstall the board.

[sliverFish]

I just noticed this thread is really old, but if anyone reads it and has some advice it's a new problem for me! Thanks