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No VISA Resources in Labview but all present in MAX

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

-Nate
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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 Smiley Tongue 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
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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
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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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