DVD burner problems

Can youu check the Burner in another comeputer?
I havent been able to do that yet, but i will soon, bringing it to my school IT dept. to have them look.

What exactly does the 'power calibration message say?
"...Burn process started at 16x (22,160 KB/s)
[00:23:08] DVDEngine BEGIN: VTSTT_VOBS#1 - Write
[00:23:08] DVDEngine ...RBP=0, count=1,073,739,776 bytes
[00:23:34] NeroAPI Power calibration error
[00:23:34] NeroAPI F: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D
[00:23:34] NeroAPI Generating DVD high compatibility borders
[00:23:34] NeroAPI Generating DVD borders completed successfully
[00:23:35] NeroAPI Burn process failed at 16x (22,160 KB/s)
[00:24:07] DVDEngine ...succeeded
[00:24:07] DVDEngine END: VTSTT_VOBS#1 - Write
[00:24:07] DVDEngine BEGIN: IDVDVideoSessionImpl - " there is alot more to that log file.. i can send u it if u need to take a look.

Is there enough space on your the Temp file drive?
By temp file drive, i assume u mean where im holding the movie files? and then by that assumption it would be my hard drive, and yes there is still 16.3 gigs left in that partition i hold them in.

Where you using the type of DVD that needs finalizing?
Im mainly going to be using them in my PS2 so i can watch dvds in my room with my g/f when we hang out, instead of on my computer.

Originally Posted by ziggy16
hey im having trouble similar to other posts..i keep getting the power calibration error message...i have all updated firmware..my connections are fine and im running on the DMA setting. weird thing is that i burned 2 dvds that worked fine, but now i cant burn anything. the process finishes , but when i insert the dvd to play, nothing is written on it, even when there is no error. i was wondering if anybody may be able to help, i have the log files saved. im using nervision express as my software and ive tried other types of media, same result.

im having the same problem......
i got power caliberation error then it says dvd burning n completed sucessfully but not is written on it...

im having the same problem......
i got power caliberation error then it says dvd burning n completed sucessfully but not is written on it...

yes.. well i still havent fixed it yet.. im going to bring it to my college's tech. department.. see what they can do. i will post any results if i get any.

I was having the same problem with my DVD burner. The problem was that IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller had been switched from DMA to PIO. This had sopmething to do with when I jumped an IDE hard Drive with a USB device to back up some files for a friend I couldn't get it to stop properly, so I went ahead and disconnected it and then my DVD burning issues started. VEry slow and the DVDs it burnt were messed up. I did find that the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller in the device manager was set to auto-detect, but was set to PIO. I knew the problem stared yesterday, I did a system restore and this solved my issue. Thanks to the 2 guys above who nailed this down to the "PIO Problem".

Having a similar problem

I'm by far a computer genius but I can adjust stuff and what not fairly easily just not sure what the settings should be. I'm having a very similar problem with my DVD burner but its been a problem out of the box as I just installed it. I have a Dell Dimensions 2400 and I just installed 1GB of Ram and a 20X LG DVD Burner. I've never messed with Ram settings but wasn't sure if that could be part of the problem. My burner is hooked to the same IDE cable as my other CD-Rom drive but that cable is separate from the one that the hard drive is on. I went in to check the DMA/PIO settings and they are set to DMA when available but one of the boxes says currently in PIO. Is there any way to change that? What maked DMA available. I appreciate any help that can be given and hope that this can be resolved because I don't like waiting 75 minutes for a dvd my brother can burn in 5. Thanks!

Set from PIO back to DMA

Hey you with the PIO problems. Read post 14 and 16 in this same thread. I think one of them even has a link describing in detail how to fix this problem. I was able to fix mine with a simple system restore, but the DVD burner worked originally. For some reason certain things cause windows to set the ATAPI/IDE controller to PIO. If you can't find how to fix in this thread continue searching for "Setting to DMA from PIO" or something like that. Good luck.

Thanks Icon1976

I appreciate the head up on those. I actually noticed those when I first scrolled through but upon checking my settings saw that they were already set to DMA when available but still were running in PIO. I didn't bother to look further because I was still kinda messing with different things and since they were set to DMA I figured thats all I could do. I have since read elsewhere that if you change it to PIO and accept it, then go back in and set it back to DMA when available it will put it back in DMA. There is also supposedly a registry edit that will stop XP from swithing it back to PIO once it is running in DMA. I haven't been able to try it yet but if it works I'll be happy to post it on here to spread the word. Thank you again.