No VISA Resources in Labview but all present in MAX

N8D11 · ‎12-27-2010

Hi,

I am unable to find any VISA resources from LabVIEW, however, all NI hardware is available and working in MAX. I have just installed a PCI-8433/2 as well as a NI PCI-8512 CAN/HS Card. As part of the installation I believe MAX was upgraded to version 4.6.2. I will attach the max configuration report for those who are interested. I am working with LabView 8.2. I also uninstalled an agilent GPIB card and as a result the NI-GPIB card is the sole controller and is GPIB0... instead of the agilent card.

I have had a similar problem before that was a result of a corrupted database, but I was unable to find this problem on the forums this time and I am not getting any errors. Just an empty VISA Resource control.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Nate

MAX Configuration Report

12/27/2010 1:35:05 PM

MAX Summary

My System
- Data Neighborhood
  - CAN Channels
  - NI-DAQmx Tasks
    - V1P1V2P2
    - V3P3
- Devices and Interfaces
  - GPIB0 (PCI-GPIB)
    - Instrument0
    - Instrument1
    - Instrument2
    - Instrument3
    - Instrument4
    - Instrument5
  - Miscellaneous VISA Resources
    - GPIB0::INTFC
    - GPIB0::16::INSTR
    - GPIB0::2::INSTR
    - GPIB0::22::INSTR
    - GPIB0::7::INSTR
    - GPIB0::10::INSTR
    - GPIB0::27::INSTR
    - GPIB0::3::INSTR
  - Network Devices
  - NI-DAQmx Devices
    - NI USB-9481: "Dev2"
    - NI USB-9481: "Dev1"
  - NI-XNET Devices
    - NI PCI-8512 CAN/HS
      - CAN1
      - CAN2
  - PCI-8433/2
    - Port1
    - Port2
  - PXI System (Unidentified)
  - Serial & Parallel
    - COM1
    - COM6
    - COM9
    - LPT1
- Scales
- Software
  - IVI Compliance Package 3.3
  - LabVIEW 8.2
  - LabVIEW Run-Time 7.1
  - LabVIEW Run-Time 8.0.1
  - LabVIEW Run-Time 8.2.1
  - LabVIEW Run-Time 8.5.1
  - LabVIEW Run-Time 8.6.1
  - LabWindows/CVI Run-Time 9.0
  - Measurement & Automation Explorer 4.6.2
  - Measurement Studio for VS2005
    - DotNET
      - Common
  - NI LabVIEW SignalExpress 3.0
  - NI Spy 2.7.1
  - NI-488.2 2.46
  - NI-CAN 2.7
  - NI-DAQmx 8.7.2
  - NI-PAL 2.5.3
  - NI-Serial 3.6
  - NI-USI 1.0.2
  - NI-VISA 4.6.2
    - NiVisaServer.exe
    - NIvisaic.exe
  - NI-VISA Runtime 4.6.2
  - NI-XNET 1.1
- IVI Drivers
  - Advanced
    - Instrument Driver Software Modules
    - Simulation Driver Software Modules
    - Simulation Driver Sessions
  - Driver Sessions
  - Logical Names

-Nate

JÞB · ‎12-27-2010

Take a look here

My guess is you wound up upgradeing vervions of NI-488.2. the latest version does not have support for LabVIEW 8.20. Upgrade to at least LabVIEW 8.5.1 of downgrade NI-488.2 2.7 available for download from here

"Should be" isn't "Is" -Jay

N8D11 · ‎12-27-2010

Currently I have NI 488.2 version 2.46. Which is supported. Thank you for responding so quickly.

-Nate

JÞB · ‎12-27-2010

Now that IS odd.

Can you show a couple screen shots from MAX?

First expand the software tab and post a png of the screenshot (I'm not yet convinced you do not have SOME driver issue)

Next select MAX>TOOLS>NI VISA>VISA Options- Wait for the new screen then expand Mysystem General settings and select Aliases.

You could also try "Clear all aliases" from there and reboot.

"Should be" isn't "Is" -Jay

N8D11 · ‎12-28-2010

Here is a screenshot of the MAX software list.

Thanks for your help...I fixed the problem. I had an agilent GPIB card previously. I disabled the tulip passport and cleared the aliases and refreshed MAX. Now my controls are populating properly.

Thanks again for your help!

-Nate

wideofthemark · ‎11-04-2011

Thanks to you too. I had the same problem and disabling the tulip passport worked. Not quite sure why this was a problem......but i'm happy with it just working...

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