User`s guide

Connecting Instruments to GPIB

Step 4: Configure GPIB Interface Cards

Steps to Configure

GPIB Interface

Cards

1 Apply Power. Apply power to the PC and to the installed GPIB

instruments. As Windows 98/Me/2000/NT/XP restarts, a

Found New

Hardware

Wizard may start. This figure shows a typical Windows 2000

display. The display may be different for other operating systems.

Install Configuration Files. Use this table for the actions to take for the

operating systems listed.

Open IO Config. Click the Agilent IO Libraries Control icon (blue IO icon

on the Windows taskbar) and then click

Run IO Config. When the main

screen appears, highlight the

GPIB 82350 PCI GPIB Card menu item

and then click the

Configure button to display the 82350 PCI GPIB Card

Configuration

screen. (For an Agilent 82341 card, highlight GPIB

82341 ISA GPIB Card and then click Configure).

OS Action

98/Me

! When the Wizard asks for the Agilent IO Libraries CD, click OK.

! When the Wizard asks for the hpioclas.dll file, browse to

C:\windows\system\

and click OK.

2000/XP

! Click Next> to accept the default suggestions.

! Click Finish to complete the installation.

NOTE

For a description of IO Config and the Agilent IO Libraries, see the

Agilent IO Libraries Installation and Configuration Guide. This guide

may be included on the instrument CD or is available on the Web.