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Power Calibration Area Full error, still need help.
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H-A-C-K
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31. May 2005 @ 23:33 |
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So I take it ALL steps discussed here have been applied?
Media change
Burner clean
Firmwares
Reinstallation and upgrade to latest revisions
Burner tested in other PC's
Media Is fine has worked before - Check
Burner burns everything but ISO's just fine - Check
Firmware - Check
Burner tested in other - Nope
But if I test in my other computer and it works. What will you offer as the next step to take to fix my problem?
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31. May 2005 @ 23:36 |
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you're ignoring ppl who know about these things. no-one's saying your media hasn't worked before, or to get rid of it for good. But until you at least try some other media you are gonna stay stuck with sporadic results. We're all just here to help but if you know better than we can't help you, you know?
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baabaa
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31. May 2005 @ 23:42 |
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Well, I shall go out on a limb here and say, why won't you try another brand?
I (we) at Afterdawn know that they use several cheap manufacturers and they are cheaply made because of substandard materials.
Through time, the burners laser looses intensity, therefore the power to make an acceptable burn decreases, and as the materials on the disc are not identical between each disc, then you amplify the problem tenfold, the bunr is not as deep, and therefore errors that were there in the first place (although not evident) have been highlighted.
This area on the disc (as already been explained) is used to calibrate the laser to the material of the disc, if it cannot calibrate to it (ie thinks the reflectivity/receptivity of it is poor) then it will display the error, it is also to tell you that the material MAY NOT be uniform across the complete surface of the dvd (which is often the case on cheap media)
I also think this is a 'small' flaw within Nero and can be a little borderline on whether the disc is actually poor.
Just try a different media - Ritek/Taiyo Yudens/AZO/Maxell and see if it makes a difference.
Failing that try another burning software.............
...............PIO is no go, DMA all the way...............
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H-A-C-K
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31. May 2005 @ 23:45 |
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Ok but I will only have the same thing to say after I try another media. This media is fine, how could it be fine to burn ISO's a few months ago before to reinstalled my OS? But remember took all steps to make my burner work correctly. Such as Fireware and so on. As i will also note it works with burning anything else but ISO's. And every burn not everyother one or anything but every burn i get the error "power calibration error"
Also I would like to say thank you though. You are all very fast at repling.
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31. May 2005 @ 23:52 |
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if another media doesn't work we'll happily eat our words, but then at least we can move onto delving deeper into where the problem 'may' be. You wouldn't believe how many come thru here and say "it's not my media", only to (nearly always) be proved wrong. Remember, we don't have anything to gain out of proving or disproving things..
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baabaa
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31. May 2005 @ 23:52 |
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No worries, let us know how you get on...........
Weakened lasers, are not necessarily bad, that is the course of optical electronics.............
And I think Nero's tolerances for this are quite acute............
...............PIO is no go, DMA all the way...............
Beware of the Pixies - they move in over night and turn your life upside down
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31. May 2005 @ 23:59 |
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Hey baabaa, see you've become addicted, nice one..
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1. June 2005 @ 00:13 |
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media issue and you didn't let me know sooner? BAD MINI-ME~! *scolding* HAHAHAHAHA...j/k
especially someone using memorex and wanting to say, Quote:
Media: Memorex DVD+R's 4x
as NOT being the problem??? woah~
argument ensues~......
Recommended Media:
Taiyo Yuden 4x dvd-r TYGO1/ 8x dvd-r TYGO2/ 8x dvd+r YUDEN000T02/ 16x dvd+r YUDEN000T03
Verbatim 8x dvd+r MCC003
Verbatim dvd+r DL (MKM001)= flawless no compression backups
"Do Yourself A Favor, Use The Good Stuff
TY & Verbs 4 Life~ :)" ~docTY~
"Its better to be quiet and appear stupid, then to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
I am always prepared to recognize that there can be two points of view - mine and one that is probably wrong - John Gorton
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baabaa
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1. June 2005 @ 01:18 |
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Cheers, been addicted for ages, only now everyone knows that I'm an official junkie...............LOL
...............PIO is no go, DMA all the way...............
Beware of the Pixies - they move in over night and turn your life upside down
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1. June 2005 @ 04:01 |
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If you receive the "Power calibration error" or "Power calibration area is (amost) full" error message, the cause will be either poor media, poor power, or a defective recorder.
Have you tried putting this burner in another PC to find out if the burner might be failing?
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Whisperer
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3. June 2005 @ 07:07 |
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Waiting to hear back from H-A-C-K trying a media dif than Memorex (Memorex Sucks big time batch to batch or within same batch). Always there is resitance to the media change suggestions ... why? Try Sony, TDK, Ty-uden (or however you spell it!).
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3. June 2005 @ 08:49 |
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i think i scared him off. didn't mean to, i just detest crap media :)
and you always know that as soon as someone sez 'not my media at fault' they jinx it so you then know it's the media
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3. June 2005 @ 08:58 |
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You didn't scare him off, he just has to find out on his own that Memorex is inconsistent media, since he does not want to hear it from anyone else :~)
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3. June 2005 @ 09:13 |
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naw, this tag team of good media advocates will convert him to the good side sooner or later :)
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3. June 2005 @ 09:15 |
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Yep, sooner or later. May the TY Force be with you :~)
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baabaa
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3. June 2005 @ 12:06 |
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Lets wait and see, you never know we may all be eating our words (hands off those ones are mine, eat your own)
...............PIO is no go, DMA all the way...............
Beware of the Pixies - they move in over night and turn your life upside down
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H-A-C-K
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3. June 2005 @ 12:34 |
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I'll let everyone know when I know if a dif media works out for me. I'll grap some dif kinds for a few friends and see if it burns. I'll post each kind of media I try and if it worked of not. I hope thats all it is.
H-A-C-K
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3. June 2005 @ 12:43 |
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we'll be here :)
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jontopia
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3. June 2005 @ 12:48 |
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I think it may be a simple power problem. Is your cpu overclocked?How old is your power supply?
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3. June 2005 @ 12:51 |
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eh ?
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ecko123
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3. June 2005 @ 15:28 |
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Ok Ok guys I'm here to FINALLY put an end to this or at least hope to. Well i said it several times and i guess i'll say it again. "IT IS NOT THE MEDIA." Nor was it even an hardware issue. No one ever acknowledged the fact that I did read thru all the other posts before making this one. So there were pple just repost what had been said before. Well, after all that's said and done, lemme tell you I HAVE FIXED the problem. I knew there was nothing wrong with the hardware in the first place because I could burn small files on DVD, however it was Iso/image files and anything that was larger than a gig in size. So after trying all those other methods, nothing work.
Well, a month or so ago, I decided to completely unistall all the dvd-burning softwares. Then I re-install Nero and everything else. BUT this time, I installed Nero in my C drive which was where my Windows is located. And surely after that, I tried to burn a file that was over 1gig in size and had COMPLETE SUCCESS. So heres my adive, if your burning software is located in a different hard drive that does not contain Windows and all of the system files, try re-installing it to another drive. This actually worked for me, so I hope it will for you to.
And one last thing, for those that keep telling people its just the media maybe in the Future you can add this lil trick to your book of Dvd-burning knowledge and provide more than just the "media issue" solution.
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ecko123
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3. June 2005 @ 15:38 |
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Oh ONE MORE THING, I actually tried a different media. In fact they weren't even a "higher quality" disc than my TDK's which I had been using. I managed to get some very CHEAP generic DVD from my friend, I mean those discs didnt even have a LABEL on it and i was still able to burn fine after I used the method that I mentioned before. So even cheaper Discs works fine, thus proving my point that there was Nothing wrong with my media. I mean at least my discs had TDK on it.
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3. June 2005 @ 15:39 |
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@ecko123 - you've been challenging everyone's knowledge/help from the beginning. No-one's out to be smart, we all do this in our spare time and work from what we can see and what we know (ie experience!). If you think we're all so crap, pls feel free to come back and help others as we do, and put us all to shame.
But don't look at stuff such as the links in my signature as it's all made-up, well according to you. That's fine you're entitled to your opinion, and you obviously know better. No skin off my nose.
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3. June 2005 @ 15:39 |
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Glad you solved your problems, however, nowhere did you ever say your burning software was on another drive, other than C drive which is where most people place it. If you had posted a log it might have been more helpful and the problem would have gotten resolved sooner.
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baabaa
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3. June 2005 @ 21:47 |
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arniebear and creaky have good points here, but the main thing is you solved your problem, and yes according to yourself it wasn't a media issue.
However re-reading your posts, you never provided these details, you have now provided us.
We can only offer suggestions from our own experiences, and details provided because PC configurations and architecture are so different between 1 PC to another, therefore ALL information shared can only aid in the speedy resolve of issues.
Nero not being installed on your root drive (not normal to do this, I have to ask why did you do that?)
Files larger than 1Gb
The only thing you mentioned was ISO's, and yet no error codes or logs were provided..........
Anyway, good thing is you solved it, and even better, you posted back how you solved it.
Well done, and thankyou for the feedback...............
Just waiting for H-A-C-K to get back, you never know he/she may have the same issue as ecko123, in which case I shall have to find my words and start munching......................LOL
...............PIO is no go, DMA all the way...............
Beware of the Pixies - they move in over night and turn your life upside down
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