Agilent 5890 GC with 43250 HPIB card under windows 2000

[jdlh199]

I'm having issues connecting a 5890 GC system to a Windows 2000 PC through a 43250 HP-IB interface card. Are these systems compatible? After installing the latest version of the IO Library I can connect to the autosampler box but not to the GC. When refreshing the card to autodetect, it seems to hang at the 'getting IDN' stage.

Some pretty pictures below. Does anybody have an idea? I've checked the cables and they are fine, and I know the card is fine. The GC reverts to 'Emulation mode' when turned on.

[Consumer Products Guy]

I'm having issues connecting a 5890 GC system to a Windows 2000 PC through a 43250 HP-IB interface card. Are these systems compatible?

What revision of software are you using? I use up to A.09, also A.07 and A.06.03. I've used an 82350 HP-IB/GPIB board, which I know I need to type in 82341hp and set the bus address to 30 for the system to work. Is the 43250 a newer one?

[jdlh199]

Sorry, that's my typo.... it is an 82350 card.

I'm using A.06.03

I set the address to 30 in Chemstation, and also set it to 30 in the I/O Libraries, but no effect.

[Consumer Products Guy]

You have to select card as 82350 and then type in hp82341 even though the card itself is an 82350 (same window where bus address is changed to 30, I believe). We use Windows 2000 with A.06.03, works fine; we do get a window on the monitor and have to click OK upon opening a ChemStation, but it runs fine, and is as stable as A.06.03 on Win95 or NT. I only enter "30" once, through the IO libraries set-up. I've never seen that Agilent connection expert before, and don't know what you mean by "set the address to 30 in Chemstation". You want to enter and set the GC address (can't remember off hand what it is) in Configuration Editor, and save that.

[jdlh199]

OK I solved it!

The connection expert screenshots above are from the latest libraries downloaded from the Agilent website (v.15). I solved the issue by uninstalling that one and installing version J. that comes with Chemstation A.09. This produced the more familiar setup options below.

Once I entered in the correct info below, and added the instrument, Chemstation did it's thing and connected to the 5890.

Ignore my sentence about setting 30 in Chemstation. I was stupidly setting the 5890 address to 30 instead of the card, but that wasn't the problem.

Thanks anyway!

[Consumer Products Guy]

You have to select card as 82350 and then type in hp82341 even though the card itself is an 82350 (same window where bus address is changed to 30, I believe). We use Windows 2000 with A.06.03, works fine; we do get a window on the monitor and have to click OK upon opening a ChemStation, but it runs fine, and is as stable as A.06.03 on Win95 or NT.

Good job ! That's me, semi-expert on "old stuff". Maybe I can learn how to post screen captures. Some day I'll have a vehicle made in 1990s or 2000s, and with that new fuel-injected stuff instead of my carburetor....get rid of my turntables and cassette recorders...when wife says I should upgrade to something newer, I ask if should upgrade to a newer wife, and she usually changes the subject....