GPIB-USB-B Windows 10 Drivers

[Flow75]

Hello Ni,

I have a GPIB-USB-B device and I want to use it on my new windows 10 computer.

I've tried my drivers used on my previous windows 7 computer but it doesn't seem to works.

I can't find any drivers for my board on ni.com.

Can you help me ?

Thanks.

Flo.

[Nichole]

Hello Flo,

This page explains the driver compatibility for the GPIB-USB-B device: https://www.ni.com/en/support/documentation/compatibility/21/ni-hardware-and-operating-system-compat...

This page has the driver downloads available: https://www.ni.com/en/support/downloads/drivers/download.ni-488-2.html.

I hope this helps!

[Signal_G]

I see that the GPIB-USB-B compatibility ended with version NI 488.2 version 17.6.  I have 20 installed so the 17.6 install doesn't fully run since a higher version is installed.  Do I have to uninstall 20 to use my NI hardware?

[Signal_G]

Why yes.  It turns out that's exactly what I have to do.  I uninstalled 20 and installed 17.6 and it works.  Does that mean it will keep that driver if I upgrade to 20 now or will it kill the device?  I guess I'll see when I add a device that isn't compatible with 17.6. 

[AlKuRo]

I have two devices to be operated simultaneously. But one device was not supportet in v17.6 yet the other is the GPIB-USB-B. So I had to find a way to get them both running in the latest environment as I had no option to uninstall v20.0.

Maybe there is an official standard way to do this. Well I didn't know how so i did the following.

Just found out that you can extract the actual and signed driver from NI4882_1760f0\Products\NI-488.2_Runtime\ni488r64.cab\ to a temporary folder where I renamed the files manually as follows.

ni4882.dll.GPB_RTE64	-->	NI488errorsChs.txt
ni488config.dll.GPB_RTE64	-->	NI488errorsChs.xml
NI488errorsChs.txt.GPB_RTE64	-->	NI488errorsDeu.txt
NI488errorsChs.xml.GPB_RTE64	-->	NI488errorsDeu.xml
NI488errorsDeu.txt.GPB_RTE64	-->	NI488errorsEng.txt
NI488errorsDeu.xml.GPB_RTE64	-->	NI488errorsEng.xml
NI488errorsEng.txt.GPB_RTE64	-->	NI488errorsFra.txt
NI488errorsEng.xml.GPB_RTE64	-->	NI488errorsFra.xml
NI488errorsFra.txt.GPB_RTE64	-->	NI488errorsJpn.txt
NI488errorsFra.xml.GPB_RTE64	-->	NI488errorsJpn.xml
NI488errorsJpn.txt.GPB_RTE64	-->	NI488errorsKor.txt
NI488errorsJpn.xml.GPB_RTE64	-->	NI488errorsKor.xml
NI488errorsKor.txt.GPB_RTE64	-->	ni488config.dll
NI488errorsKor.xml.GPB_RTE64	-->	niGPIBsys.dll
niGPIBsys.dll.GPB_RTE64	-->	Ni488.cat
win64Analyzer.inf.GPB_RTE64	-->	ni488.inf
win64Analyzer.sys.GPB_RTE64	-->	ni4882.dll
win64AnalyzerCat64_mssigned.GPB_RTE64	-->	Ni488Cat64_nisigned
win64AnalyzerCat64_nisigned.GPB_RTE64	-->	ni488ico.dll
win64Analyzerico.dll.GPB_RTE64	-->	Ni488ico.dll_Perm
win64ni488.inf.GPB_RTE64	-->	ni488k.sys
win64Ni488Cat64_mssigned.GPB_RTE64	-->	gpibUsbAnalyzerDriver.cat
win64Ni488Cat64_nisigned.GPB_RTE64	-->	gpibUsbAnalyzerDriver.sys
win64ni488ico.dll.GPB_RTE64	-->	gpibUsbAnalyzerDriverCat64_nisigned
win64Ni488ico.dll_Perm.GPB_RTE64	-->	gpibUsbAnalyzerDriverico.dll
win64ni488k.sys.GPB_RTE64	-->	gpibUsbAnalyzerDriver.inf

Then I opened Devicemanager and updated the driver from that temporary directory manually. And what do you guess - NI MAX found the GPIB-USB-B and the attached Instrument identified correctly.

[trance22]

Hi, I am pretty new to using the NI devices and related softwares and drivers.

We are trying to communicate between an Agilent light meter via a Keysight software through GPIB-USB-B. I see that the GPIB-USB-B is supported by NI 488.2 v17.6 and older drivers. I get a runtime Engine error of LabVIEW. 

1. What other softwares/drivers do we need (using NI package manager on windows 10)?

2. What version of NI VISA do we need to install? 

I would appreciate any suggestions, please.