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Troubleshooting Guidelines
Troubleshooting GPIB Interfaces
6 Upgrade your system BIOS. Note that even new computers may have a
newer BIOS available.
# Make sure the BIOS Installed O/S setting is set correctly. This
determines what software will configure all the VXI
plug&play
cards in your system. Either the BIOS or the O/S can perform
the task of querying all the cards to determine their resource
needs, picking a valid configuration for all these cards, and
telling the cards what their actual resource settings are.
# If the BIOS Installed O/S is set to Windows 95, Windows 98,
Windows 2000 or Running a PnP O/S, the BIOS will not perform
this task and will leave it to the O/S to do this. If the
Installed
O/S
is set to Windows NT, NOT PnP O/S, or Other, the BIOS will
perform this task.
# For NT version 4.0 or earlier, the BIOS must perform this task
as the O/S does not know how to do this. For Windows 9x,
either the BIOS or the O/S can do this task, so try both.
If you are running Windows NT, set to
Running Windows NT,
Not VXIplug&play OS or Other.