In need of DOS drivers for a GPIB-PCIIA card

[daoustb]

I have a GPIB-PCIIA card (Board Assembly (assy) Number: 180212-01 REV A ; Board Serial Number: 52570). The GPIB card allows us to do voltammetry (electrochemical technique). The card is connected to a potentiostat (Princeton Applied Research Model 273). The software I use to make my electrochemical system work is an old, but efficient, DOS program for voltammetry (M270).
The copyright on the card says it was constructed in 1984. I went to NI web site and downloaded drivers (2ADOS26.zip). They seemed to be the right choice (GPIB-PCII/IIA for DOS). I installed them. But when I run ibconf.exe, it told me that my GPIB is not a 488.2 board. By the way, my electrochemical software gave me a "potentiostat not found" message. So, I tried to find an older version. I found at http://www.ni.com/support/gpib/versions.htm#pc_dos, a c13 version for 488.1 board. I downloaded it (2Ac13.zip), presuming my board might be a 488.1 board (since it seems to be old). I unzipped it and found no installing program. Question 1 : do you think these drivers will do ? Question 2 : how can I install them ? if they're not the right ones, what drivers should I use ? Thanks.

[Angela M]

Hello daoustb,
Are you working in a true DOS environment or are you running a DOS window under some version of Windows?  In any event, there is a getting started manual that I think will help you.

I hope this helps, please let us know if you have more questions about this.

Regards,
Angela
Applications Engineer

[daoustb]

Thanks for the help manual, but I already have it. I consulted it. Maybe i  ...

[daoustb]

I consulted this help manual for installing my drivers.

The computer opens in Windows 95. I run the install program from Windows. It then takes to a DOS window.

Can you help me further with these new informations ?

[f.grasdepot@laposte.net]

Hi,

what would be also interesting would be to know what is your program
under DOS long like and to see its listing to analyze how long it may
take to translate it into some other language ...

Yes, I know , it is a little bit as to say: tell me what you need and I
shall tell you how to make without it ...

Regards,

F.grasdepot

[daoustb]

I am using M270 (from Princeton Applied Research). I am doing voltammetry with it. Mainly, I scan the potential and I record the current. I obtain voltammetric waves. Not very complicate ! Did I understand well : you want me to send you the program so you can check its content ?

[Angela M]

Hello daoustb,
The c13 driver is the driver for your board in the DOS environment. 

I would like to get this driver working for you, but I do not have access to a Windows 95 machine with DOS in order to verify the installation process for this driver.  This hardware has been obsolete for some time.  Page 2-2 of the manual I linked before has some information about installing, that you can manually try with your version of the driver.

Why are you needing to set this system up now?  When was the last time you had a working system?  If you have access to any newer hardware/OS, we can enable DOS support for that hardware and see if your program will run in that manner.  The following KB talks about how to enable DOS support, but this will require a 488.2 interface.

Enable or Disable NI-488.2 DOS Support in Windows 98/95

I am sorry I do not have a more direct answer.  I hope this helps.  Let us know if there is anything else we can help with.

Regards,
Angela
Applications Engineer

[daoustb]

Hi again,

I am not able to open any web site with this link. My Internet Explorer tells me there is nothing there.

Also, you aksed me :

Why are you needing to set this system up now?

I don't understand your question, I think. I need this system to make voltammetry.

When was the last time you had a working system?

A year, a year and a half ago. We were working with the exact same potentiostat. My GPIB-PCIIA card was in another computer. When we recently rebuild this system a few weeks ago, we realized that the computer was dead. We had to change it. We loaded on this new computer our DOS voltammetric software M270, from PAR). And now, we are trying to make it work with the drivers. The drivers were already installed on this "old" computer that we used a year ago or so. That's why I don't know which drivers I should use and how to make it work.

 If you have access to any newer hardware/OS, we can enable DOS support for that hardware and see if your program will run in that manner.  The following KB talks about how to enable DOS support, but this will require a 488.2 interface.

I was not able to open this link. It told me that nothing was there.

Thanks again for your time.

[Angela M]

Hello daoustb,

I am sorry I do not know what happened with the link.  I will send it again.

Enable or Disable NI-488.2 DOS Support in Windows 98/95

Regards,

Angela Morris

Applications Engineer