I had a hard drive failure on a machine that communicates with several robots using RS232 and have the old PCI 232/16 186492B-01 board that I am trying to get to work. This isn't the newer PCI-8430/16. It worked previously under Windows 7, but now I cannot for the life of me find the windows drivers. This machine is before my time here at the company so I don't have particulars on the old setup. Same computer though with a new drive, new install of Win 7 and LabVIEW 2016. I am sure the previous version of LabVIEW was 2014. The only path I seem to find is to intall NI-Serial XX. I have installed NI-Serial 15.0, but is this perhaps missing the proper driver for the PCI 232/16? Note that the listing on the webpage for NI-Serial 15.0 does list the PCI 232/16 in the device list. Perhaps I am not doing something properly to get the windows driver for this device? The other option is to replace the board with an external USB multi serial port adapter - there is another similar setup that went that route and I know I can get that to work.
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