Problems with Plug n Play Device Drivers

[vweltin]

I'm trying to manually install some Plug and Play device drivers for my Aglient 81104A Pulse Generator, and I'm having a bit of difficulty. I found instructions for how to manually extract the files, but the instructions say to copy/paste the folder (which contains two .llb files and about 10 files without extensions) to "National Instruments\LabVIEW\instr.lb" but the thing is, I don't have a \instru.llb folder under \LabVIEW\. All I have is "MAX" "NI-DAQ" and "Shared." I even tried the search function for a folder called instr.lib but I couldn't find one on the computer. I manually made a new instru.lib folder and ran one of the .llb files, which opened up in LabVIEW, but I was given ten errors which mostly read like this

"- The VI expected to be at '<instrlib>:\hp81110a\hp81110a.llb\HP81110A Reset.vi' was loaded from 'C:\Users\Lab\AppData\Local\Temp\Temp1_hp81110a.zip\hp81110a.llb\HP81110A Reset.vi'"

I tried to manually navigate to the \AppData folder as to move the .vi files to the folder where they were expected, but I couldn't see it when I opeend my \Lab\ user folder.

What is going on here?

Many thanks in advance!

[Ray.R · Accepted solution]

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@vweltin wrote:

I'm trying to manually install some Plug and Play device drivers for my Aglient 81104A Pulse Generator, and I'm having a bit of difficulty. I found instructions for how to manually extract the files, but the instructions say to copy/paste the folder (which contains two .llb files and about 10 files without extensions) to "National Instruments\LabVIEW\instr.lb" but the thing is, I don't have a \instru.llb folder under \LabVIEW\. All I have is "MAX" "NI-DAQ" and "Shared."

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Your OS is windows, right?

Are you looking under <drive>\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVEW (version)\   ?

It does not appear that you are looking in the correct LabVIEW folder.  You should see:

applibs

autotest

CCodeGen

cintools

Database

examples

help

instr.lib

internet

.... and so on ...

[Luke24]

Hi,

I have a very similar problem where all I see when I enter the labview 2021 folder is a folder called resource. Also where could I find the driver installation instructions? Whenever I click the link on the driver page it redirects me to the homepage of forums.ni.com.

[billko]

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@Luke24 wrote:

Hi,

I have a very similar problem where all I see when I enter the labview 2021 folder is a folder called resource. Also where could I find the driver installation instructions? Whenever I click the link on the driver page it redirects me to the homepage of forums.ni.com.

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Plug and Play drivers are only for source code.  If all you have for LV 2021 is a resource folder in your Program Files folder, then only the LabVIEW runtime is installed and not the IDE.

[JÞB]

No Bill

He is at ....National Instruments\Shared\

You want to be at the symbolic <LabVIEW> application directory \instr.lib\ folder where the symbolic path is the location of LabVIEW.exe

This should be either C:\program files\National Instruments\LabVIEW <ver>\instr.lib

Or C:\program files x86\National Instruments\LabVIEW <ver>\Instr.lib

Depending on bigness of the IDE.

EITHER WAY just right-click the LabVIEW shortcut and select open file location.