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How To Fix "Power Calibration Error" While Burning CD/DVD
Submitted by admin on Mon, 03/31/2008 - 11:43.
If your CD/DVD burner is making coasters failing to write CD's and DVD's, throwing a "Power Calibration Error" or "Medium Speed Error", here are a few solutions you should try.
Their could be several possible reasons and solutions for the above error, basically what is happening is for some reason the CD/DVD burning software is unable to determine the Optimum Power Calibration rate (a small pre-burn test to determine optimal laser power for writing), resulting a disk burn failure. There is no easy way to pinpoint the exact reason, so try all the possible fixes from top to bottom (easy to hard) and see what works:
- Try using different brands of quality blank media, most common reason for such error's is cheap blank media.
- Try burning at lower speeds (Highly effective).
- Disable IMAPI Service (Work's in most cases):
- Launch Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services .
- Browse for "IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service", Right-click on it and select properties.
- Chnage Startup Type to Disabled.
- Click Apply and Reboot.
- Try updating or changing your CD\DVD burning software to the latest version.
- Try upgrading your writer's firmware.
- If all the above fails the problem is definitely related to hardware and not software, Go ahead and get your burner laser lens cleaned by a professional.
- If all the above fails the drive's laser might have died and you need to get it replaced.
Best Of Luck, do post your results.
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thanks my prb is solved
it has been solved using
3-Change Startup Type to Disabled.
thanks buddy.
solved by method 3 Disable
solved by method 3
Disable IMAPI Service
thanks!
solved by blowing the laser!!!
i just blew out the laser ..... that's all..may be the laser is dusty..
Reduced burn speed
Changing the burn speed setting from "Automatic" to a specific setting seems to be working at the moment. I burned 5 DVDs succesfully with it set to Auto, though, very strange...
You've gotten me working again, so thank you for posting this!
Solved with disabling IMAPI service Start-up
Followed the steps as described and problem is gone.
Thank you.
disabled IMAPI and rebooted
disabled IMAPI and rebooted and still getting error. Failed at 4x Burn Speed and it's a 16x SATA SONY NEC Optiarc drive. Going to try drive firmware.
there is no IMAPI CD-Burning
there is no IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service in Xp pro sp3.
sorry it was there, but
sorry it was there, but different name
-different language, so my mistake
Issue not resolved as yet.
Tried all the given steps, but the issue still persists. Though the Sony burner is burning the Sony DVDs & other media fails to burn.
change Inferior quality media
most probably you are using an inferior quality media, stick to Sony !
Disabling IMAPI in VISTA
How to Disabling IMAPI in VISTA?
Vista IMAPI
See this : http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1105007&SiteID=1
Problem Solved!
I burned 3 DVDs in a row and when burning the fourth one I got this error. So I cleaned my lens with a lens cleaner CD (it is a kind of CD/DVD with a tiny brush fixed somewhere under it). So if you are subsequently getting this error then try cleaning the lens with a lens cleaner CD/DVD. Works for 90% cases. Its worth spending a dollar.
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