When plugging in 5 GPIBs simultaneously, a board ID is automatically assigned ranging from 0 to 4. This ID seems to be permanently set - if the 4th GPIB is then plugged in by itself, the board ID must be set to its original value of 3 or else it will give a missing GPIB error. This causes a problem if one loses track of what each GPIB's board number is when plugging it back in later. How can the board ID's be reset? I implement board.SendInterfaceClear() from the NationalInstruments.NI4882.dll for each GPIB when my program is initialized but this does not fix the error. There is not a Interface Clear function for the NI device class (it should be SendIFC but for some reason that is not contained in the NationalInstruments.NI4882.dll as far as I can tell - in fact, more than half of the GPIB 488.2 function list is not part of the device or board classes and I have no idea how to access them. They are not contained in the GPIB 488.2 .Net example code that is installed with the drivers either. I am using driver version 16 and am coding in C# with Visual Studio 2015 with the manual implementation of the .licsx file in order to use Measurement Studio 2015 (see NI link for this work around: http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/8C93FFDC5014C57586257EC30054830A). Everything else about my code and implementation of controlling 5 GPIBs work fine as long as the correct board ID is always assigned to the GPIB - this is not acceptable though as several people in my company running the code are not tech savy enough to handle the problem. Can somebody please help me reset my boardID's and if possible, help me access the missing functions? Using a different version of Visual Studio is not acceptable nor do I think that would allow access to the full function list as they aren't shown in the example code installed with the GPIB drivers. Thank you all for your time, I would greatly appreciate any help offered as this is a hindrance to our company's product development.
