HP 3478A DMM not seen with PCI/GPIB 488.2

Hi All,
I'm really new at this so watch out... I have an old 3478A which is compliant with the old HP-IB (GPIB) connector and I'm trying to communicate with it using a PCI/GPIB 488.2 card. I found some drivers for Labview and that's wonderful but it simply doesn't work. The automation explorer also doesn't see the device. What am I doing wrong? I read somewhere that you have to enable some old drivers but I the message was somewhat unclear now I'm just desperate. Please help someone.
OS : win XP
Labview: 7.1
thanks

It is possible the cable is faulty. The cables I am using are National Instruments 763061-02 RevC; Type-X2. These cables work on all of the instruments I am using. Check the configuration of your GPIB Card, I have provided screen captures of my current settings that are working for me.
1. As before use the Measurement and Automation Explorer to get to the GPIB Bus under devices.
2.Right click on the GPIB Bus and select properties, you should see the following screen.
3. Click the Configure and on the next screen click Software>> button to see all of the options.
Try these settings(I have not made any changes these should be Default).
Message Edited by AndrewAlford on 11-25-2005 02:23 PM
Andrew Alford
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Sustainable Energy Technologies
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