Thank you for your help. It seems that the Dio8 card that I had in #1 slot was bad. When I clocked to one of the other 2 cards it worked. Two of the channels on those cards of noise and distortion but others work.
Unfortunately I have a bigger problem now. I tried setting the monitor refresh rate to 60 as recommended by our media department so I could project the d8b on our wall screen with a projector in my classroom. The d8b keeps cycling on startup and never completes. any Ideas. I will post this as I new topic. I did a search already.