07-17-2012 04:12 AM
I have come across a very strange situation. A commercial LV application and one that I have written use a com port; on about 10 machines running XP the software works well with available coms ports can be listed for selection. However, loading the same s/w, on a machine running Xp +sp3, no coms port are not available for selection. Yet other windows applications pick up the coms ports 1 & 2. Obviously there must be a problem between the labview application and windows,. Any suggestions to a solution would be greatly appreciated
07-17-2012 05:04 AM - edited 07-17-2012 05:06 AM
Hi,
Have you installed NI-VISA on the SP3 machine?
-CC
07-17-2012 07:27 AM
1. Make sure VISA is installed.
2. Other programs can block LabVIEW from seeing the COM ports. Make sure the other programs have released the COM port.
07-18-2012 07:52 AM
Make sure the COM port is enabled in the BIOS. It usually is by default, but it could have been changed. You do need VISA...