05-22-2008 02:49 PM - edited 05-22-2008 02:50 PM
05-22-2008 03:07 PM
05-22-2008 11:19 PM
05-23-2008 01:07 PM
05-23-2008 02:31 PM
05-23-2008 02:58 PM
Selecting refresh is completely different than doing a scan for instruments.. To scan for instruments, you right click on the controller.
In your earlier image of MAX, you have a PCI-GPIB on PXI bus 1 and with an alias of 'firefire'. Is the alias something you assigned? Besides showing up here, the address and alias are strange. If you did not do the alias assignment, I don't understand how this could have happened. You might want to do some cleanup and the first thing I would try is removing the visaconf.ini file. First see if you have multiple copies on your system. Power down, remove the GPIB card and then reboot. See what MAX lists. If that looks okay, power down, insert the GPIB board, and look at MAX when the boot finishes.
I also think that moving the GPIB card to a different slot is a good idea.
05-23-2008 03:35 PM
05-23-2008 03:41 PM
Good news.
p.s. It's a bit confusing for you to refere to either the ICS board or your NI board as an instrument. They are not. They are controllers. Also, I don't think you will run into problems but assigning an alias to the controller is probably unnecessary. In this case, it was just confusing because I don't think I've ever seen that done before.