I am getting error -10086 while doing an external calibration of PCI-MIO-16E4 board.

[redyns]

I am using Labview 6.0.2 with ni-daq 6.8.1 on windows 2000.

[Super Fly]

I am pasting an answer that was asked a while back that may help answer yours.

Title:
Error 10086 When Using Calibate_E_Series Function to do an External Calibration.


Problem:
In this particular case, the customer was trying to do an external calibration on his E Series board using the E Series Calibration Fixture to connect a power supply and DMM to the board. He made the following NI-DAQ call, "Calibrate_E_Series(2, nd_ext_calibrate, nd_ni_sw_area, 6.1)", but received error 10086, "Invalid reference voltage".


Solution :
This customer was trying to use a power supply to provide the external reference voltage to calibrate the board with. However, a power supply cannot provide a steady enough signal for NI-DAQ to be able to narrow in on a value. A
source 4 to 10 times more accurate than the board should be used, such as an actual calibrator.

[Filipe A.]

Hello;

Due to the lack of information on how you are seting up your VI to calibrate your board, I can't provide any specific information about how to fix the problem and what could be wrong on your set up, but, I'm attaching a link that present some valuable information regarding that error number and the external calibration task.
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/3efedde4322fef19862567740067f3cc/2d8abbbb8d45ff74862565f6005c8d7b?OpenDocument
Hope this helps.
Filipe