No VISA Resources in Labview but all present in MAX

[N8D11]

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

[JÞB]

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

[N8D11]

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

[JÞB · Accepted solution]

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.

[N8D11]

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!

[wideofthemark]

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...