08-11-2005 08:08 AM
We experience an unacceptable high failure rate with 777073-01 GPIB cards.
31 PC's using WIN-NT and with only one application (Borland C++)running, are in operation on 8 different locations since 2000. Since Januari 2005 de cards start to fail and today the number of failures is 8.
The application freezes since communication with IEEE instruments is no longer possible. Using NiMax.exe I noticed that the embedded serialnumber in the GPIB card is missing.
Once a new card is installed, all is well.
The application runs full time and any down time causes great problems. The servicecost are rising beyond expectations aswell. W'd like to recieve a sollution. Four faulty 777073-01 cards are at your disposel for investigation.
Many thanks for your reply.
08-11-2005 03:42 PM
08-11-2005 05:58 PM
It is odd that cards have ran over 5 years non-stop and now in the past 8 months 25% of them have failed. Does not sound like a random mortality occurance.
Power quality or software upgrade issue possibly?
Are any more details available- ie are all the failed cards at just one of the 8 locations, any changes made to equipment, system, device under test?
08-12-2005 01:06 AM
08-12-2005 08:13 AM