Hp 4192 a instrument driver doesnt have a frequency output

Hello friends
I am using Hp 4192 A impedance analayzer and I am using the drivers given in the Ni website. I am able to control the instrument with it ,but as the instrument driver has only two outputs for display A and display B i am not able to record the corresponding frequency measurements (which is the 3rd display) . Also with the same vi (the one which i wrote) it sometimes sweeps slowly , sometimes does it quickly but the sweep doesnt restart at 1000 kHz(sweep is supposed to be in loop), and sometimes it works perfectly.Its driving me nuts.
Please help me as my research needs measuements from impedance analyzer.
Thanks

This shows the nuts and bolts of every driver for every instrument out there. This is a query, which means you are expecting an answer. Some commands just tell the equipment to do something, so you don't need the VISA read part of it.
This picture is intended only to show you how nice and clean it could be to make your own drivers in LabVIEW. I highly recommend reading some sort of LabVIEW for Dummies kind of book AT LEAST. That will show you how to do basic stuff in LabVIEW. And of course, read the equipment manuals. If you know how to use the instrument, you can concentrate on the programmer's guide. If you don't know how to use the instrument... whew - usually HP/Agilent manuals are several hundred pages of boring reading, but they are very thorough about how to perform measurements! After that, you are ready to ask questions here!
In fact, poke around your instrument's programmer's guide to see just what I told it to do. If you can figure it out, then you are starting to understand the programming flow and it will be no time before you are writing your own stuff.
Good luck!
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