Serial Hardware and Software Help
Table of contents
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Serial Hardware and Software Help
- About this Help File
- Related Documentation
- Using Help
- Introduction
- NI Serial Software Installation
- Install the Hardware
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Measurement & Automation Explorer (MAX)
- Overview
- Launching MAX
- Adding a Serial ENET Interface
- Verify Installation and Troubleshoot NI-Serial Problems
- Delete a Serial Interface
- View NI-Serial Software Version
- Monitor, Record, and Display NI-VISA API Calls
- System Report Generation
- View or Change Serial Port Settings
- NI-Serial Communicator
- Recover Unused COM Numbers
- Additional Help and Resources
- Serial ENET Configuration
- Using Your Serial Hardware
- Connector Descriptions
- Serial Port Information
- Uninstalling the Hardware and Software
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Troubleshooting and Frequently Asked Questions
- Verify Installation and Troubleshoot NI-Serial Problems
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Frequently Asked Questions
- How do I force Windows to detect my PCI, PXI, or PCMCIA hardware?
- How do I force Windows to detect my USB hardware?
- How do I force Windows to detect my ExpressCard hardware?
- How can I determine which type of serial hardware I have installed?
- Why does my PCI/PXI serial card display the wrong serial number?
- How can I determine which version of the NI-Serial software I have installed?
- How do I troubleshoot problems?
- How can I determine whether my hardware and software are installed properly?
- How can I repair my NI-Serial software?
- How can I determine which port is associated with COMx?
- How can I change the COM numbers of my National Instruments serial ports?
- Why can't I make changes to my settings in MAX on Windows Vista?
- Why does my hardware keep reappearing after I delete it on Windows Vista?
- How many serial ports can I have on my machine?
- How many interrupts are required for my serial interface?
- How do I resolve serial USB power conflicts?
- What is the difference between USB 2.0 and USB 1.1, and can I use the USB serial hardware in USB 2.0 networks?
- Why isn't the Auto232 transceiver mode on my USB-232 working?
- Why am I seeing poor performance on Windows XP when I use multiple USB serial interfaces?
- Why did my USB serial ports enumerate backward?
- How do I access my serial ENET interface using the hostname?
- How do I communicate with serial ENET interfaces located on other subnets?
- Why does the NI Ethernet Device Configuration utility list my serial ENET interface as *BUSY* when I know my network uses DHCP?
- Why doesn't my serial ENET interface show up in the NI Ethernet Device Configuration utility?
- Why did my application work with a plug-in interface but times out with a serial ENET interface?
- What is the relationship between bits per second, throughput, and bus utilization?
- What happens to data sent to a closed serial port?
- Why do loopback tests of large data transfers sometimes have problems?
- Does the serial hardware have built-in support for protocols such as SDLC and ModBus?
- How do I use 9 data bit framing?
- Can I use NI-Serial hardware with a non-Windows platform?
- Can I use USB serial hardware, Ethernet serial hardware, ExpressCard serial hardware, and plug-in serial hardware in the same computer at the same time?
- Glossary
- Important Information
- Technical Support and Professional Services