LabVIEW cannot detect connected instruments

[GerdW]

Hi user,

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@solarfacility_user wrote:

Are there supposed to be separate drivers for Windows and LabVIEW?

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Yes.

Every hardware you connect in/at your computer needs a hardware driver for Windows:

• A PCIe-GPIB card needs a driver, provided by the manufacturer of that card.
• Any USB device either uses default Windows drivers (like for HMI devices) or also brings a specific driver supplied by the manufacturer…

[solarfacility_user]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but, I assume that this is the Windows driver for the spectrometer, with its icon in a separate image. I could not find the Windows driver for the sourcemeter though. I could not even find the CD installer for it. I tried looking for it on the internet but I couldn't find it.

[GerdW]

Hi user,

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@solarfacility_user wrote:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but, I assume that this is the Windows driver for the spectrometer, with its icon in a separate image.

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This looks like an example/manufacturer application to actually remotely control the Spectrometer. This (most often) is something different then the driver needed for the communication bus/protocol!

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@solarfacility_user wrote:

I could not find the Windows driver for the sourcemeter though. I could not even find the CD installer for it. I tried looking for it on the internet but I couldn't find it.

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Ask the manufacturer.

(As you don't provide any specific information about your devices we cannot even help you with searching for drivers!)

The same applies to the "PCIe-GPIB" device: ask the manufacturer of that card for suitable drivers…

Whatever you do: read the manual and ask the manufacturer's support!

[RTSLVU]

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@solarfacility_user wrote:

I'm assuming that the "PCIe-GPIB" one is the GPIB-connected Keithley sourcemeter, but it says that Windows does not have a driver associated with your device, even though I already installed the drivers for LabVIEW, unless there is a separate driver for Windows. And I'm assuming that the "LPT-1" connection is the HORIBA MicroHR Spectrometer. Are there supposed to be separate drivers for Windows and LabVIEW?

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What is the model and manufacturer of the PCIe-GPIB? 

I am guessing it is not a NI GPIB interface.

Even if it was NI-GPIB it would still need its own Windows drivers plus NI-VISA and NI-488.2 installed

Also you might have to jump through a few extra hoops to get other manufacturers GPIB interfaces to work. 

[solarfacility_user]

The GPIB cable that I used was the Type X2 one from NI (Model 763507B-02). Should it register as NI-GPIB in NI-MAX?

[billko]

?  That's a data cable.  That won't register as anything.  You sure you have the right part number?

[GerdW]

Hi user,

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@solarfacility_user wrote:

The GPIB cable that I used was the Type X2 one from NI (Model 763507B-02).

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We ask for the GPIB PCI card and you tell about a GPIB cable (this is all I found for that material number, NI doesn't know anything else about it).

Where do you connect that GPIB cable to - at both ends of the cable!?

Again: which GPIB card is built into your computer? Which manufacturer and which type?