so i tried to burn a CD today
but when i started to burn it, it got 6% into the burn process and then said "Power Calibration Error" and then Nero crashed and i had to close it thru task manager

anyone know what causes this error and how to fix it?
i've been reading up on the internet and some people say its because of the media i use, but i used two different types of CDRs and i got the same error with both. one brand is a Ridata and hte other is a Prism
i know they aren't the best CDRs but they have worked for me before (the Prism's i had to burn at 4x, the Ridata's worked just fine at 16x). i've burned numerous CDs before with this media and this error jsut started today.

I have a 16x CD Burner and use Nero 5

thanks for anyhelp

ur burner is knackered, my writer fucked up a few weeks ago, wouldnt write and refused to read. so i had to get a new one

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Originally posted by montie one brand is a Ridata and hte other is a Prism

maybe thats your problem... try a normal brand.. sony or memorex

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Originally posted by CKYTEP maybe thats your problem... try a normal brand.. sony or memorex

I don't know about cdrs, but as far as dvd-rs, ridata is one of the best brand. I would assume their cdrs are of similiar quality. Actually the power calibration thing could be something besides ur burner being fucked. Try a search on google perhaps you'll find the answer on another forum...

u really should try memorex or sony instead. that might solve your problem. otherwise. download a nero update: http://www.nero.com/us/Major_Update_PowerPack.html ...
i think that's an update...

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Power calibration error is a hardware error, i think.
Had the same error a few weeks ago with my Asus CD-writer after 75% burn process in Nero.
Flashed firmware, aspi drivers,...
but the burner was broken, couldn't write nor read.
So maybe tou wanna use your warranty.

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thanks for the tips guys.

i'm downloading the nero updates in the hope that will fix things.
I can still read CDs on the drive so i don't know if the drive is dead just yet. I have had the drive for about 3 years now and have burned well over 200 hundred CDs tho.

Try another media but usually that error means the head is dead. Also try cleaning the lens. The burner reads info from the blank cdr such as maximum speed and parameters to burn. If it can't read that it's either the media is cheap or the lens got dirtorted from high heat ... or simply the burner is F*cked.
Before you trash it try a firm upgrade also if there is one.

Good luck .... but it is nice to have a dvd burner get one if you can


Ok found this on the net .. hope it helps


I had been having power calibritaion errors off and on for the past 6 months and my burner would put 1 second dead airs randomly into audio cds. I have browsed the message boards and this was my sequence of events, which ultimately led to a solution:
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1-Nero must be doing it, everybody with the problem is using nero

This was WRONG, tried several different cd programs and some wouldn't even burn at all.
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2-Firmware is messed up.

This too was wrong, I tried three different releases of firmware for my drive, none of them worked.
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*3-I decided my lense was dirty:

This turned out to be the problem, however at first it was deceiving.

I went to Best Buy and bought a lense cleaning cd. This did nothing, in fact I think it may have made things worse.

I got some air duster and just sprayed it around my drive, this is a waste of time and money don't bother. It may be possible to clean the lense this way, but its tought to know where the lense is.

So I gave up for a while, wasted a bunch of cd's and was about to just buy a new burner. Realizing I had nothing to lose I decided to open it up. I took the burner out of the case, and opened the burner up. I noticed there was a negligible amount of dust and I notice the rails that move the lense/laser up and down to read the cd were slightly lubricated but need to be re-lubed. So, I lubricated the metal rails and cleaned the lense with an alchol wipe. This cleared up the problem. I also realized it was taking the player a long time to recongize a cd in the drive, this is not longer a problem either.

Last edited by Transporter on May-31-2004 at 22:36