VISA Property Tab in MAX is missing for an instrument

[LVLV]

Hi,

I am using MAX version 3.1. With Windows 98. The "VISA Property" tab is missing as I select the instrument (but, I can communicate with inst). The "Attributes" tab is there. Thus, I cannot assign "VISA Alias on my system" name and I cannot communicate with the inst programmatically.

The same version of MAX on other computers with Windows XP shows both "Attributes" and "VISA Property" tabs.

Is it due the Win98? Can someone explain why this happened and how can I solve this. 

Thanks for your help.

[Dennis_Knutson]

MAX is a utility program that gets installed with a variety of drivers and I suspect that you only have NI-488 installed and not NI-VISA. You can expand the software listing in MAX and verify this. I believe that in some older driver CD that came with a GPIB board, the default install did not include NI-VISA.

When you do a scan for instruments or right click and select Communicate with Instrument, VISA is not used. The lower level NI-488 commands such as ibwrt and ibrd are used.

p.s. Assigning an alias and using VISA is optional though having VISA installed makes it possible to use the majority of instrument drivers available.

[LVLV]

Thanks.

Where can I get NI-VISA download site for Windows 98?

[Dennis_Knutson]

NI-VISA is on your drivers CD that came with LabVIEW, it's on the CD that came with your GPIB board and you can find all versions available for download at https://www.ni.com/en/support/downloads/drivers/download.ni-visa.html.

[LVLV]

It worked, thanks again....