PCMCIA-GPIB won't pass Troubleshooting Wizard but Device Mgr reports no conflicts. WIn2000 OS.

[dienerd]

GIPB Interfaces Sequentually verified fails. There are no IRQ or Address conflicts according to the Device Mgr. The Event Viewer says "... event ID (3) in source (gpibtnt) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registery information or message DLL files to display messages from the remote computer...".

I have uninstalled & installed the NI-488.2 s/w & the GPIB driver multiple times w/o success in passing the troubleshooting wizard.

I get a blue screen when I try to "Scan Devices".

I get a blue screen when I compile & run Microsoft C sample programs.

VISA seems to be working. At least it sees the devices that are on the bus.

I need t
o write a MS C program to talk to a HP E4408B Spectrum Analyzer. I need to setup the analyzer and then log data on disk. My main Calls will be "send() & receive()" and probably a few others. Is the problem with the troubleshooting wizard going to cause problems with these calls. What NI libraries will I need to do this using ANSI C with the Microsoft Developers Studio v. 6.0.

I am using WIN2000 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop.

Thanks,
Dave Diener

[Yuri Zuev]

Try to disable interrupt, even though device manager isn't reporting any
conflict. Just tell it not to use any IRQ at all. I end up telling this
my GPIB cards each time, and each time it helps.
Yuri

[Kamran S.]

Dave,

This could be an issue with the socket service being used to allocate the resources on the laptop. The posting below has a pretty good explanation of how to troubleshoot this (refer to the posting by Jason Hobbs). If that doesn't work I'd call into the NI Support center.

Best of luck,
Kamran

http://exchange.ni.com/servlet/ProcessRequest?RHIVEID=101&RNAME=ViewQuestion&HOID=506500000008000000D10A0000&ECategory=Instrument+Connectivity.GPIB

[Heiko.Scharke]

How can I tell my PCMCIA-GPIB not to use IRQ??

Rgds

Heiko