We have an old Cary 100 that was running fine with a WinXP laptop using the GPIB-USB-HS cable/adapter. Unfortunately the WinXP machine, old and decrepit, died recently and the drive was not recoverable. To minimize possible hiccups I found another WinXP machine on eBay and installed the Cary software from CD and installed NI 488.2 - 2.6 version I believe. Most things work except Validate. On launch I get an error reading "9.9CSM - Input Message Length Error" after a few seconds. I can see, sometimes, the Cary moving thru the wavelengths but no tests are available.
I have searched the internet and apparently nobody else has ever had this error and/or chosen to write about it on public forum.
In past, before the WinXP machine died, I had tried to move to a newer laptop running Win7 or Win10 and encountered this same error and I (wrongly I guess) attributed it to the OS.
Other thing I see is on WinXP start - error EVsgException in module Cary32.dll at 0004E46D.
If anybody has ideas I would greatly appreciate. Have spent way too many hours trying to get this working.
regards,
Jim
