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PCI-GPIB card installation

Some problems encountered after PCI-GPIB card was installed.

1. After PCI-GPIB card was installed, it could be seen from device manager, but no resource assined to it.
2. GPIB driver caused Windows 2000 restarting when whatever is chosen in start menu (standy, shut down or logoff). When GPIB is disabled in device manager, this problem disappeared.

Anybody has experence about it?

Thank you so much for your any opinions?
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Ya-hoo,

have'nt seen such behaviour with any of my installation.

You know, PCI is not _that_ fixed standard. You may check the PCI version and supply voltage of both your motherboard and PCI-GPIB card.
You may also want to check the PCs BIOS for any PCI-related settings. Depends on the BIOS, so you have to ckeck yourself. But there might be some settings that disable ressource assignment to new devices or block some ressources from being assigned by the BIOS. It might even help to simply put the card into another slot.

This all sounds mystic, but one or the other way it _is_ mystic ;-))

Greetings from Germany!
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Uwe
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Ya-hoo,

have'nt seen such behaviour with any of my installation.

You know, PCI is not _that_ fixed standard. You may check the PCI version and supply voltage of both your motherboard and PCI-GPIB card.
You may also want to check the PCs BIOS for any PCI-related settings. Depends on the BIOS, so you have to ckeck yourself. But there might be some settings that disable ressource assignment to new devices or block some ressources from being assigned by the BIOS. It might even help to simply put the card into another slot.

This all sounds mystic, but one or the other way it _is_ mystic ;-))

Greetings from Germany!
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Uwe
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Ya-hoo,

What version of the NI-488.2 driver do you have? The latest version for Windows 2000 is 2.3. If you do not have this driver I would suggest you install it from here. Please repost if you have more information or if you have the current driver version and you still see this same behavior.

JenK
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Thanks Uwe and Jenk.

Problem was solved. It caused by chipset driver. After Chipset driver was installed properly, everything is ok.

THank you very much for your response.
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