Installing PCI-GPIB under Windows 2000 and P4V8X-X Asus Motherboard

[missdw]

Hi- I am trying to install a PCI-GPIB board in a brand new computer. Specs are: Pentium 4 2.4GHz, ASUS P4V8X-X motherboard, Windows 2000. I installed version 2.1 of the drivers, and Windows recognizes the card. When the troubleshooter runs, hardware and software are verified, but the third test fails (cannot communicate) and the error it gives is the "Unknown error". I have rebooted, reinstalled, and even changed the power compliancy of the motherboard (tried ACPI-Uniprocessor PC, regular ACPI, and Standard PC. Although there are no device conflicts, I thought the software might not like IRQ sharing (although other ACPI machines work fine with this card). Help!

[Ricardo_SR]

Hello,

This is very interesting. When you are in the Standard PC have you tried assigning a different IRQ level and see if that makes any difference?
There is a newer version of the 488.2 driver (Version 2.2). You can download it from this link.
GPIB drivers

If it doesn�t help, please provide us with the NI-Spy captures when you go through the troubleshooting wizard so we can take a look at them.

There was another Discussion Forum about a similar thing and there are some other troubleshooting things that we can try.
Here is the link to that Forum
wQuestion&HOID=506500000008000000A64F0000&ECategory=Instrument+Connectivity.GPIB> pci-gpib doesn't work on ASUS A7V mother board 

Thank you

Ricardo Santa Olalla
National Instruments.

[missdw]

Hi-

Yes I tried assigning different IRQ's. Actually this has been sort of resolved, as it appears the motherboard is faulty. After posting this problem the motherboard wasn't updating its BIOS correctly, and would sometimes fail to detect the primary hard drive. I contacted ASUS and they requested the board to be sent in for repair.

Thanks!

missdw