johnelling wrote:
GCguy, I could really use some help getting my varian 3800 and 2200 MS connected to the data station! I am using MS workstation software 6.3 on an old PC running XP. I've got a 10baseT network card and it is talking to the GC now. I have a National Instruments GPIB connected to the 2200 MS but the workstation software System Config is not seeing the MS.
Hey John,
I am not at my office anymore and getting the MS to connect is the most difficult part. But I can list the main few reasons that could be the issue for the GPIB connection:
The service switch on the back right corner on top of the GC must be set to on. If it is off the MS cannot connect with the computer.
The driver software for the GPIB is not correctly installed. There are a number of ways to check but it is difficult to explain without looking at it. You can check the device manager in your windows to see if the National Instruments GPIB driver, however, it still could be installed incorrectly.
You could try a clean reinstall from the disk and install everything in the proper order to check if that works.
I will be back in my office tomorrow and can help you further, so in the meantime check the issues I've listed above. Also, are you using the GPIB card that came with the system or did you install it yourself? Any information will help. Let me know if anything above helped and if you need more assistance. I am willing to help you directly too if you want you can PM me and I will see what we can do.
-GCGuy226