Is there an Agilent Model 6032a DC PS Driver for Windows 2000?

[Jeffray G]

Win2000, LW/CVI 6.0.4.105, VISA 2.52, NI-488.2 1.70.

We're having a problem with an Agilent Tech. Model 6032A DC Power Supply. We used them with WinNT 4.0, SP6. The VISA driver (hp6xxxa.c) worked just fine. No problem.

We had to switch to Win2000 (because the Microsoft USB Joystick we need doesn't work with WinNT!). Guess what. The VISA driver doesn't work anymore. I have submitted an email to Agilent to find out the status of any VXIPnP driver updates.

I am open to any suggestions at his point because we have 5 of these PS's and now they are useless. I would switch back to NT in a heartbeat if I could find a suitable joystick alternative. But I am reluctant because I have developed the joystick softw
are already and it works just great using the Win API.

Regards,

Jeffray G

[Dan_Mondrik]

Jeffray:

What is the problem you are facing? Have you tried debugging with VISA Interactive Control or NI Spy? Using VISAIC will let you communicate to the instrument interactively; Spy will show you which call is failing in your instrument driver. If neither of these helps you figure out the solution, you can send an NI Spy log to our tech support staff.

There is a newer version of the NI-VISA driver (2.6) available on the NI web/ftp site. However, the only Win2K bugs I remember were fixed in 2.5.2, so you should have those fixes.

Dan Mondrik
Senior Software Engineer, NI-VISA
National Instruments

[Jeffray G]

Dan:
This problem has been resolved. Thanks to the availability of the driver source code, I was able to narrow the problem down to the model number I was assigning to the Agilent PS I was using. I had inadvertently swapped model numbers with another Agilent PS I was also controlling. When I used the correct model numbers the driver worked fine. Thanks for your response.

Jeffray