We normally clone some machine with all our software installed to get a new one, change its name, etc. For some reason MAX seems to remember some of its old configuration and refuses to acknowledge that an instrument at a certain GPIB address is no longer the instrument there.
It shows the old Vendor, Model, Serial Number and Firmware Version. Opening the Communicate with Instrument or VISA Test Panel, and sending *IDN? to the instrument there, returns the new values. If I start IO Trace, select the GPIB bus in MAX and do a scan for instruments, I can see the correct value being returned, but MAX doesn't update the corresponding entry.
This is Windows 10, MAX 20.5. I've Reset the Configuration Data several times, sometimes from a MAX running as me, sometimes running as Administrator, with the corresponding reboots. I've manually stopped all NI services and wiped out the DATA directory under c:\ProgramData\National Instruments\MAX, followed by reboot. The old data always returns.
We can talk to the instrument at that address just fine, it is just MAX that keeps showing the wrong instrument!