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visa crash

I've got a problem that i Can't solve yet.. I'm Using the VISA resource name to communicate with my GPIB Devices on the GPIB bus. I've made a program that reads a couple of value's from 2 HP34401 multimeters. On this computer it works fine, but when I use the program om a Dell Optiplex GX110 my VISA resource box crashed.
I can hover with my mouse over it for a couple of time's but after 3 or 4 time's it just crashes. My resourcebox is filled with 2 HP34401 and the COM1 and LPT port. But on the other computer the LPT and the comport are assignt with:
ASRL1:INSTR
ASRL2:INSTR
I've used the NI-MAX program that can scan for GPIB devices and also there I can see the strange definition of the COM and LPT port. My problem looks a bit like this:

[url]http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=140&message.id=3047&requireLogin=False[/url]

I have a normal National Instruments GPIB PCI controller in my computer and the same card is used within the GX110. The weird part of it that I Can communicate via NI-MAX (Just sending query commando's). The problem has to be the VISA session.

Can someone give me a hint or a solution ?

Thanx!
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Which version of NI-VISA an LabVIEW do you use? There are know issues with LabVIEW 6.0 and the VISA Resource name which makes LabVIEW crash.

The ASRL1:INSTR and ASRL2:INSTR are the Low Level VISA resource names of the COM1 and COM2, usualt the LPT is ASRL10:INSTR.

Hope this helps

Regards
Karsten
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I'm using Labview version 6.0.2 and NI-MAX 2.0.3.6 . Is it possible that this versions have these problems? Are there some kind of hot-fixes for this problem?
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I would suggest to update your VISA driver to the latest version. You can download this driver here

Download the "NI-VISA Version 3.2 for Windows 2000/NT/XP--Full, LabVIEW RT (Realtime), and RTX support"

Uninstall the current version on your PC through add/remove programs and install the new driver which also will update your MAX version. Try it again after the installation.

Best Regards,

Rik
Rik Prins, CLA, CLED
Software Development Engineer
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