DAQ Troubleshooting Question

When I was setting up my USB 6210 I hit the run button to see what my voltage values were. Without doing anything to my DAQ assistant or touching the DAQ, the voltage inputs do this. Any ideas as to what may be causing this?

My current VI is nothing but a DAQ. At one point I will have the voltage input that is in the screenshot that varies by 20+ mV and I attached a voltmeter to confirm. But then at any instant all of the inputs drop down and hover around 1.5 mV. When the inputs are at the top values the inputs float around +/- 2mV so I know that something is wrong when I have all of them drop down to 1.5 mV at the same time and they all stay there until randomly they go back up to the higher values. Let me know if you need more explaination.

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