Serial port not working anymore...problems with Windows XP?

[spaceman_spif]

To: tst

I fart in your general direction!

[Ray.R]

Hi dirtyb15,

Hummm... I'm not sure what to say... Win-2K is my preferred OS.

We also have many problems with many PCs when we switched to XP (mistake - 2 weeks ago). 😠
None of our quad serial port cards work. I will let you know if one day we get the quad serial ports working. We switched to a "USB to multi-serial-port" device. Works fine.

Let us know if you discovered some solution..

Everything was fine with Win-2K...

😄

[AnalogKid2DigitalMan]

Spaceman Spiff:

Nice sunglasses Brutus, eh?

-The Ghost Rider

[Guibang]

I got the same problem with my serial port. I'm able to communicate when I open a visa session with MAX. But when I run visa write/read in labview, doesn't work. I'm using windows XP. Please help.

[dirtyb15]

Okay everyone i have finally got my applications using com ports to work with windows xp. Originally i would install the visa 301 runtime on NI's site and that would only work for win2k2 machines for me. I recently downloaded the most recent runtime, visa 320 i beleive and after installing that my applications work correctly. Hope this helps the others that were having problems with this.

[Ray.R]

Thanks dude!!

I will try that for any NI products that we have..

😄

JLV


(*** how I miss the good ol daze with Win-2000 ***)
(*** maybe it's time for the transition to Linux ***)

😉

[spaceman_spif]

To: Analog Kid

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[spaceman_spif]

Ahhh...that would make sense. I could be using a pre-Windows xp VISA driver. I'll look for the updated version and try it out!

[dirtyb15]

http://digital.ni.com/softlib.nsf/websearch/C0CDC738994FCBC886256EEB004E9BB3?opendocument&node=132060_US

[Guibang]

I download the visa 320 runtime and install it. I can communicate trough the serial port with MAX but I still can't communicate with LabVIEW visa write/read. I will try with an older version of windows... Any suggestion?