Hello,
I am trying to port a Fluke 5520A from an old WinXP system to a new Win10 system.
I've been successful in porting everything Fluke related (which is a quite old database system).
The communication with the Fluke 5520A should be by a GPIB-Card, so we purchased a CONTEC GP-IB(PCI)-FL GPIB board.
Everything went smoothly, but now, when starting a calibration process, the following error occurs:
E2740: IEEE-488: (NI EDVR) DOS Error
I talked to the CONTEC support and they told me that their GPIBxx.dll will replace the old ones on the system.
They said that their driver talks by utilizing their GPIBxx.dll's.
But since this seems to be a NI error, I thought about asking the Fluke support, whether they can use the GPIBxx.dll's provided by CONTEC.
So then I talked to the Fluke support and they told me that we have to use the NI (MAX).
They also told me that I have to configure my card(s) correcly, because thats a common problem with this error.
But I am 100% sure that everything is configured the way it should be.
Interestingly, without the CONTEC drivers, the system wont even recognize the installed card at all.
But even with them installed, the NI MAX wont find the card. Also, with installed NI-488.2 drivers from NI, NI MAX wont find any GPIB boards
except for the (non-existing) NI GPIB Network Card.
So my question now is:
How to resolve the above mentioned error (E2740: IEEE-488: (NI EDVR) DOS Error)?
It seems a bit odd to me, that a 400 EUR card wont be able to communicate to a GPIB device, while its commands are usually standardized (SCPI, if I recall correctly).
If you need any more info on it, please ask!
Thank you so much in advance!