Hi all,

I have a computer I built myself with dual Philips DVD burners. I have burned many CD's before but lately I've had error messages. I cannot get anything to burn. Both drives read perfectly. I have tried burning at the LOWEST possible speeds, reinstalling the drives, checking to make sure burning is enabled. I have plenty of ram and harddrive space as well.

I have not yet had the chance to swap out one of my drives with another computer to see if that is the problem, but since both drives are having the same problem I doubt it is the drives themselves. I have a suspicion that it is a power problem. I printed an error report which I pasted below. I am not good with reading these but it seems to be a power insuficiency. It states there is a power calibration error. I just copied the last section with the errors. I can attach the entire report in pieces if needed.

12:27:03 AM#35 SPTI -1106 File SCSIPassThrough.cpp, Line 289
D: CdRom0: SCSIStatus(X02) WinError(0) NeroError(-1106)
Sense Key: 0x03 (KEY_MEDIUM_ERROR)
Sense Code: 0x73
Sense Qual: 0x03
CDB Data: 0x2A 00 FF FF D1 C6 00 02 AA 00 00 00
Sense Area: 0x70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 73 03
Buffer x0c0f0000: Len xffc0
0x20 00 00 00 00 00 01 10 1C 26 25 33 1B 36 38 20
0x14 36 3D 2E 19 32 1B 08 20 00 04 01 02 30 01 0E
0x19 16 15 24 1B 06 15 33 00 04 11 25 19 17 0A 15

12:27:03 AM#36 CDR -1106 File Writer.cpp, Line 311
Power calibration error
D: Memorex 16X-DDL-IN

12:27:06 AM#37 Text 0 File ThreadedTransfer.cpp, Line 228
all writers idle, stopping conversion

12:27:06 AM#38 Text 0 File ThreadedTransfer.cpp, Line 222
conversion idle, stopping reader

12:27:06 AM#39 Phase 38 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1685
Burn process failed at 32x (4,800 KB/s)

12:27:06 AM#40 Text 0 File AudioCompilationImpl.cpp, Line 867
DRM: DRM burn session terminated.

12:27:06 AM#41 Text 0 File AudioCompilationImpl.cpp, Line 896
DRM: Closing entire DRM handling. Bye.


Existing drivers:
File 'Drivers\ADPU160M.SYS': Ver=v3.60a (Lab01_N(johnstra).010529-2218), size=101888 bytes, created 8/29/2002 5:00:00 AM
File 'Drivers\PXHELP20.SYS': Ver=2.02.53a, size=17136 bytes, created 6/20/2003 8:36:36 AM (Prassi/Veritas driver for win 2K)
File 'Drivers\InCDfs.SYS': Ver=4, 3, 23, 0, size=102016 bytes, created 1/17/2006 11:09:34 AM (InCD4 driver for win NT/2K/XP)
File 'Drivers\InCDpass.SYS': Ver=4, 3, 23, 0, size=29440 bytes, created 1/17/2006 11:09:28 AM (InCD4 driver for win NT/2K/XP)
File 'Drivers\InCDrec.SYS': Ver=4, 3, 23, 0, size=8704 bytes, created 1/16/2006 6:41:20 PM (InCD4 driver for win NT/2K/XP)

Registry Keys:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon\AllocateCDROMs : 0 (Security Option)




Thanks GUYS,

MattWhat is the make, wattage and age of the PSU in that machine ? ?
Could very well be the culprit.

Although not impossible i wouldn't think both drives would fail at the same time. Your method of trying them in another working machine is the only way to find out though.

I also noticed you have INCD...do you use this often ? ? The software itself has been known to cause issues...