Hi Joe,
Based on this information, I think your weather file has missing data in the albedo column that are preventing SAM from reading the data. By clearing Use albedo from weather file if available (at the bottom of the Location and Resource page for the Detailed PV model), you tell SAM to use the monthly albedo data provided on the Location and Resource page instead of the data in the weather file. That prevents SAM from encountering the -999 values.
This would also happen if the weather file had out-of-range albedo values (less than zero or greater than 1).
If you want to use the albedo data in the weather file, you will need to edit the file to replace the missing data with valid values.
Best regards,
Paul.