Thanks for the response Fletch. I tried as you suggested, there were no errors spit out, but the same results. I had a spare DCH daughterboard, so I yanked the old cables off, configured the Dual PRI for an onboard DCH and Viola!
it works like a charm.....must be the vintage of the MSDL card that can't handle NI2 ? I'm guessing here.....
Wherewolf