Kollmorgen Motors with PCI-7342 and UMI-7772

Hi,
I am trying to connect a pair of third-party servo-motors (Kollmorgen AKM11B-ANCNC-00) and drives (Kollmorgen AKD P00306-NBAN-0000) using a National Instrument motion controller NI PCI-7342 and motion interface NI UMI-7772.
Ever since the setup has been connected to a new computer, the motors aren't moving even though they are connected. The motors are detected by the GUI for the motors (Kollmorgen Workbench) but the program shows that the hardware is not enabled.
It has also been noticed that the LED indicating 'Interlock' shows red, and so do the LEDs indicating the 'Disabled' for both the axes on the UMI.
The 'Axis Configuration' for both axes on the NI MAX program indicate 'Enabled'.
Since only the PCI board has been switched from the old computer (where the setup was working well) to the new one, most cable connections have been left untouched.
Any help/suggestions on why the motors aren't working is welcome.
Thanks in advance,
Subhabrata

Could you explain a little more on what you mean by 'current settings on limit switches' ? Anyway in accordance to the link you attached to the previous reply, we changed the settings on the NI MAX program to correspond that on the switch (on the UMI) and now we don't get the error (70119). Thanks for that.
But we still cannot get the motors to work. The 'interlock' light is still on. We took out the 'control' and 'feedback' ports that go into the UMI for the two axes and probed the voltage between pin 6 and pin 9 on the control port. One link (from the Knowledgebase) had suggested that we would get a voltage around 24V, but we did not. It was the same for both the axes. Does that suggest anything ? Should we look into replacing the cables connecting the UMI and the motion controller (even though the they were working fine before we moved set-up) ? Or could it even have something to do with the motion controller itself ?
Thanks in advance,
Subhabrata

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