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Connecting Instruments to GPIB 3
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• If the IO icon is displayed, click the icon and click About Agilent
IO Control
to display the version. Version 15 or greater must be
installed. (The next version of the IO Libraries after “M”
discontinued this naming convention, and uses IO Libraries Suite
14.0 instead to designate the version immediately following
M.01.01.)
• If the
IO icon is not displayed, a version may still be installed. To
check this, click
Start | Programs and look for the Agilent IO
Libraries Suite program group.
• If this group is displayed, click
Agilent IO Libraries Suite >
Utilities > IO Control
to display the IO icon. Then, click the icon
and click
About Agilent IO Control to display the installed version
(must be M.01.00 or greater).
• If neither the
IO icon nor the Agilent IO Libraries Suite program
group is displayed, no Agilent IO Libraries Suite are installed.
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Install Agilent IO Libraries Suite (as Required). If Agilent IO Libraries
Suite v15 or greater is not installed on your PC, install the IO
Libraries Suite. Otherwise, go to Check Agilent IO Control
Operation.
Check Agilent IO Control Operation When the Agilent IO
Libraries Suite was installed, the Agilent IO Control was started. When
the IO Control is active, it is displayed as a blue circled
IO icon on the
Windows tasteable. If the Agilent IO Control is deactivated, I/O
applications that are running with the GPIB interface card may be
unable to open sessions or to communicate with the card and devices.
By default, the Agilent IO Control is always active after the Agilent IO
Libraries Suite is installed and the blue
IO icon is displayed. However,
the IO Control may be active even though the blue
IO icon is not
displayed. There are two ways that the blue
IO icon can be hidden:
•
Clicking Hide Agilent IO Control. Clicking the blue IO icon and
then clicking
Hide Agilent IO Control hides the IO icon, but does
not deactivate the Agilent IO Control.
•
Clicking Exit. Clicking the blue IO icon and then clicking Exit
causes a dialog box to appear that asks you if you want to
terminate the Agilent IO Control. Clicking
Ye s hides the blue IO
icon
and deactivates the Agilent IO Control.