LabView and Spider8 from HBM

I am using LabView together with the AD-converter 'Spider8' from HBM. I
downloaded the LabView driver for this measurement device from the NI
homepage. Now I have got problems with data acquisition, it doesn't work at
all. Furthermore, the system is very unstable. Can anybody help me?

I’m using Spider8 and LV for a small control system at more than 2 years now. System was Pentium3, LV 6.1 and Win 2000. Spider with the P22 firmware version.
The main communication was trough LPT1 in EPP mode. You even could set it at 9600Hz_no filter measuring rate without any error message in Spider32 setup or LV
and without any big a problem to run the provided Vis from HBM.
BUT the good days are gone…I have updated everything. Now is a P4, WinXP pro and LV7.1. All my programs, including the original HBM LV examples cannot run perfectly. It seems as the connection is not fast enough. Reading values includes a lot of “Infinite” values. I have tried all possibilities in the parallel communication (EPP, Nibble, Bit 8..) and it is always the same problem. Spider32 setup still can read it but seems a lot slower now.
A review: I took the chance and I have installed the last DLLs (due a new installation of Spider32 setup). The computer Bios (Compaq EVO D500) accepts EPP+ECP only (the old one was free to choose EPP only). HBM home page doesn’t present any Firmware version to download (you click in download-firmware and it is empty). The HBM LV example (Example 1) only works fine if before you turn off Spider8 AND doesn’t run Spider32 setup before running the example (almost an useless solution…)
I’m still working around this problem but I’m running out of options.
Any advice is welcome as well as was a place where I still can download the last firmware version.
Thanks,
Rodolfo

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