visa32

[BSA]

I have "visaLocalTmo could not be located in the dynamic link library NIVISV32" message. I had used agilent IOLibSuite15 before and had error on serial connection. So, I decided to reinstall VISA entirely after this following message appaired:

":\WINNT\system32\visa32.dll was found but could not be loaded.

MAX has detected that NI-VISA is installed on your system, but visa32.dll could not be loaded.  One or more files that visa32.dll depends on may be missing. 

Try reinstalling NI-VISA by closing MAX and selecting your NI-VISA installation in Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel.  Follow the steps in the installation dialog to repair

your installation.  Re-launch MAX, and refresh the configuration tree to view your devices.

Possible causes for this error:

1. NI-VISA was not properly installed on your system.

2. NI-VISA was not properly uninstalled from your system.

3. A file or component that visa32.dll depends on may have been moved to another location on your hard drive.

"

 Which then brought me back to the current issue.

Thanks for any help,

BSA

[Makoto]

If you want to finally use NI-VISA, do thw following:

1) Uninstall both NI-VISA and Agilent IO Libs.

2) Confirm that VISA32.DLL is removed from Windows/System directory.  If not deleted, delete VISA32.DLL by hand.

3) Reinstall NI-VISA.

4) See the VISA32.DLL's property by Windows Explorer and check if the DLL is from NI.

[BSA]

Hi Makoto,

That works thanks. Now I have another issue with VISA alias vs. COM port number assigned by window and MAX doesn't  seem to work.

Thanks,

Aziz.

[Sputnikrent]

Hi BSA,

Could you talk a bit more about what you mean by MAX does not seem to work? Does MAX crash?

Let us know!

[BSA]

Hello Sputnikre,
Here is the message went trying to config to COM3 :

The alias "COM3" is already bound to resource "ASRL18::INSTR". I don't have 18 (or at least it doesn't show in the MAX list).

Thanks

[Sputnikrent]

Hi BSA,

At what point does this happen? Do you see this message when you start MAX up? Or when you are assigning aliases?

[BSA]

This happen when assigning alias. I got NI support help. I had to remove the card and start MAX to clear all aliases. Put back the PCI-232/8 then everything went back to normal. That was a tidious exercise.