Hey ianpdq - thanks for taking the time to post the that link. Would love to tell you that was helpful, sadly it was not helpful at all as i did RTFM forward and backward and read the threads that were out there. Non of which had a solution to the problem. BY THE WAY i did all this before my post.

With the exception of those folks that went out and purchased other cards and got it to work ... i was not so lucky yet. I'm on my 3rd card of various brands, all 2GB - still get the same error.

Anyone with helpful suggestion is greatly appriciated ... as i appriciated ianpdq's time.