Appendix B
Common Questions
PCI-Based MXI-2 Interfaces for Windows 2000/NT/Me/98
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The current utility components are as follows:
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MAX—Use this utility to configure, view, and initialize your system.
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Resman—You can still use this as before. However, you can perform
resource manager operations directly from MAX or configure it to run
Resman automatically at startup. See
later in this appendix.
•
VISAIC—Use this utility to interactively communicate with VISA
devices (GPIB, VXI, Serial) using NI-VISA.
•
NI Spy—Use this utility to debug your NI-VXI or NI-VISA
application.
Your setup may now include the following steps:
1.
Install components and boot the system.
2.
Launch MAX. Optionally, change your hardware configuration and
reboot if necessary.
3.
Execute VXI Resource Manager. (Run Resman by clicking the
Run VXI Resource Manager
button in the MAX toolbar.)
4.
Run VISAIC to verify that you can communicate with your VXI
system.
What happened to VXIinit?
You no longer need to run VXIinit to initialize settings on your hardware.
We now take care of loading hardware settings in the driver, completely
eliminating the need for VXIinit. Therefore, VXIinit no longer exists.
Where do I find the information that VXIinit used to print?
You can view information about your controller from the properties pages
and the hardware configuration pages. For example, you can view logical
address and user window size in the configuration view in MAX.
What happened to T&M Explorer?
The functionality of this utility has been integrated into a powerful utility
called MAX. This utility starts with a graphical view of the VISA devices
(GPIB, VXI, and Serial) that it finds in your system. Right-click on an
individual device in the configuration tree to see its properties. You can
further configure National Instruments devices by selecting the
Hardware
Configuration
option. This includes National Instruments DAQ products,
which means you can configure these devices from MAX without running
the DAQ Configuration Utility.
