thanks for the help

put the card in sat. night and didn't seem to have any problems. went into resources and changed the card type to 32 port, then enabled the first bank of 16. said 'enabling' for 10 or 15 mins then changed to 'enabled', when i enabled the 2nd bank it said 'enabling' for about a half hr then i had to leave so i'm not 100% that the 2nd 16 are working, but i also thought later, maybe it needed an ext connected before it would finish enabling. i brought the wrong gender amp cable so i couldn't connect one then anyway. guess i'll find out in the morning.
voice mail keycodes aren't an issue with them since only 4 or 5 of the uppity ups have mailboxes.

thanks again
rich

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