Does anyone know of LabView drivers for an axiomtek AX4810P (PCI-GPIB)

[L S]

I am looking for LabView Drivers for an axiomtek AX4810 PCI-GPIB card, I have tried the manufacturer and the vendor. The data sheet for the card says that it's 100% labview PCI-GPIB compatable. Windows (98) says that it is working properly but I can't get LabView to find it. It says that I don't have any GPIB cards installed. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance

[Majicz]

First you have to go through NI-488.2 getting wizard from the National instruments start menu
verify your hardware and software installations procedures and go through Measurement & Automation Explorer(MAX) and try to set the address 1 in the instrument as well as MAX, communicate with the instrument.
If the above soln. doesn't work, pl. uninstall the card and install in another slot, if stll there is a problem, uninstall MAX, DAQ, labview and install aqain

then you can start using the instrument with labview using some examples from the GPIB section to write and read, make sure to give enough time-out 3600, and mode as 3 for example

you can download the command set used http://www.axiomtek.net.cn/images/datasheets/AX4810P.pd

Any queries
Regards
mathews.
j@consultant.com

[L S]

Matthews,

Thankyou for your response.

I have aquired "LabView drivers" for my card, which consists of a VI for each command in the GPIB command set.

When I run the NI 488.2 getting started wizard it detects 488.2 software but then says that it can't find any 488.2 hardware.

Windows tells me that the device (PCI card) is working properly.

Does the NI 488.2 wizard and MAX only detect NI cards or should it be detecting mine?

Thanks in advance for all everyone's help.

[Dennis_Knutson]

MAX and the wizard are only for NI cards. As long as the drivers are installed and Windows is happy, you should be okay. Try the provided VIs to do something simple like sending the IDN? command and reading the response. If that works, you should be all right.

[L S]

thanks, will try.