DAQmx error 200245

[Prads]

Hello,
We have an NI PXIe-1065 chassis with a
-PXI 5610 and PXI 5442-AWG together (VSG) and
-PXI 5600 and PXI 5142-Digitizer together (VSA).
We are following the manual RF application development course manual- Exercise 2.1
We have made the following external connection in our chassis as per the manual:
5442 Ch 0 to 5610 INPUT (15-35Mhz)
5442 Clk in to 5610 (10 Mhz OUT)
5412 Ch 0 to 5600 OUTPUT (50 ohms)
5412 Clk in to 5600 (10Mhx OUT)
Are we missing any other connections?
We want to generate a sine tone using VSG, Max test Panels and acquire a spectrum using VSA and Max test Panels. However after we  change the frequency and Power of NI567x tab in the NI 5610, we get the following error:
The AWG reported the following error:
"DAQmx Error -200245 occurred:
Measurements: PLL could not phase-lock to the external reference clock.
Make sure your reference clock is connected and that it is within the jitter and voltage specifications. Also, make sure the reference clock rate is correctly specified.
Device:  Dev1
Status Code: -200245"
Please advice us what to do.
Regards,
Prads

[Srđan_Zirojević]

Prads,

can you ascertain that you really have a 10MHz signal coming into your arb? You have the 5142 there (digitizer) - you could just hook up the clock output of 5610 to channel input on the digitizer, and make sure that you really have the 10MHz as per specification.

I suspect a bad cable or a bad external connection - but the only way to make sure is to test the cable with the expected signal. Make sure that you use the same cable when testing the clock (this may be tricky as the scope's input is BNC and the arb's is SMB, but if you have an appropriate adapter that could help.

best regards,

[Prads]

Hello,

I debugged the error. The cables were bad.

Thanks,

Prads