I tried to run the "Getting started" VI, it does not give me an error message but at the same time it won't run. When I looked at the block diagram I noticed that the GPIB address was already set at 8 and the frequency span and the center frequency were already set at 1MHz and 0 Hz respectively. I am guessing that this need to be modified.
if your instrument has an address of 8 and so does teh default display, i dont know if there is any difference between using an address of GPIB::8 or GPIB0::8 on the screen???