We were running a spectrophotometer on a Windows 3.1 machine via a GPIB-PCII/IIA card, but when the computer died we couldn't find another one with the older card slot so we used ae trying the GPIB-USB-B on an WinXP computer. The GPIB Explorer can communicate with the instrument but the software program doesn't see the instrument. In the original help file for the spectrophotometer's software it says to go to system.ini and add the line device=c:\gpib-pcw\vdmad.386. Since we no longer have this file we looked at the Windows\System32 folder and found several gpib*.dll files. We have tried gpib.dll, gpib-vdd.dll and gpib-32.dl, in place of vdmad.386 (we have corrected the path name too) so far but none of them have worked. We also ran the updatdos.exe successfully but seen no effect. We do have a Win 98 machine which has a USB port but we need a driver to run it. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I got the device renamed. The instrument is now running on the XP machine, but still not working on the Windows 98 machine. I'm going to keep trying because the software boots up the 98 machine and then freezes so I feel I'm close here too. To rename the device in Windows 98 I was able to follow the NI help file to the device templates tab. In Windows XP I had to search for help on the Configuration utility to find the device template dialog box.

Instrument Control (GPIB, Serial, VISA, IVI)

Moved an old software (16 bit) program to XP, won't run.

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Hello,

Has this problem being solved already?

Any help is welcome.

Best regards

Juergen

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Instrument Control (GPIB, Serial, VISA, IVI)

Moved an old software (16 bit) program to XP, won't run.

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