DVD Burner Dirty?

Heya,

Hmmm - I have no idea what this means...

Burned a load of img DVDs and those just freeze when It ry to work them on my DVD player and now whenever I try to burn anything it tells me that the "Power Calibration Failed (Burner is Dirty)"

Any ideas what's happening and how can I fix this problem?

Thanks beforehand

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Thanks guys!

Good thing DVD burners are cheap... 2nd time a DVD burner dieing within a year <....<

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Hey,

Thanks for your replies... due to some issues - I won't bother with that guy's computer - so I'm very sorry for wasting your time

but hmmm I have yet another DVD issue here - (dun wanna spam the forum with more of my topics here)

So... well it happens now that I need my own DVD burner for a pretty OLD computer... (dun ask why - big problems)

So I'm not sure what to look for to know whether a certain DVD Burner is compatible with my motherboard or whatever it needs to be compatible with. I'll post any information on my system (whatever you guys would like)

Thanks beforehand

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

It's definitely PATA!

Originally Posted by LiquidAcid

If you really want to use a SATA device you still have the option to get a PCI SATA controller.

I don't really care much for upgrading... hmmm is it a problem if it's not SATA?

I'm not looking for something expensive - anything will do really since the computer is slow and personally I wouldn't want it to burn fast myself because it's old and it'll burn images a lot worse


So now since it's PATA - how do I go on selecting a compatible DVD Burner... I briefly went to Tigerdirect (not the best place but their site is pretty handy with the specs) and clicked on 3 burners... I didn't see PATA or SATA listed under specs (I'm a newbie sorry - chances are I might be looking in a wrong area)

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