can't find GPIB interface

[xudan02]

I have a HP82350A GPIB card installed in my computer with Win2000 OS. The old IO library provided by HP doesn't work under Win2000, so I went to agilent's site and got a new IO library which is for their GBIP card also named 82350A. (I guess these two products are the same) And it works, the io config shows the GBIP card, and my program written with SICL in C++ can also control a power supply. But what I want, is to use Labview to control a hp oscilloscope(now it also belongs to agilent), so I installed NI488.2 from NI's site. And, it said that I have no GPIB interface!! I've reinstalled the software and hardware for many times, no use. Anyone knows what's wrong with this card? or, did I miss something? Thanks a lot!
Dan

[Rob Cole]

I have gone through this a number of times on our WIN NT platforms. The instructions that I got from NI was to load the HP VISA drivers and do NOT load NI VISA. NI488.2 is for NI cards. If the HP IO library sees the cards, then you're set. Also, MAX will not work with the HP card.

Use the VISA calls in LabVIEW and use the "standard" VISA names for instruments on the GPIB bus (eg. GPIB0::9::INSTR). Since MAX does not work, you will not be able to setup an alias that LabVIEW will work with.

I use this method and my LabVIEW programs work with our NI cards, HP cards and Computer Boards cards without having to change the program.

Rob