Dvd burn calibration error

My G4 superdrive has stopped burning dvds. In seveeral applications it goes through the prep process (encoding, writing etc.) but then I get an error message about failing the power calibration (0x73.0x03)
Any suggestions??? The drive still plays dvds.

Hello Piotr
First of all please notice that after installation of non-Toshiba firmware on your own you will lose warranty for the drive. Anyway, on one forum I have found interesting solution. You can try it:
1) click start
2) select control panel
3) click on administrative tools
4) click on services
5) browse your way down to IMAPI CD BURNING COM SERVICE
6) right click (on IMAPI) then select properties
7) in the middle of the window it will say start up type. Click on the arrow to the right and select disabled.
8) click APPLY
I have also noticed that Nero starts much faster as before. I also recommend you to test different empty medias.

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Thank you for your help!
At one point in the last few days i did run out of disk space on one drive, but i think i had 5Gig free on the short drive when i was trying it earlier, and i have upped that to 30.
My spindled HP DV-16Xs worked on the drive i had before pretty darn well.. I've tried a bunch of unlabeled ones, i've also tried burning at 1x, and i went out and bought some jewel cased verbatim dvd-r 16Xs, same problem.
I will take one more shot at finding the best media using that website, get some 8Xs if i can find them, before hauling it into apple.
without the dvd burner it's hard to backup very well, I was planning to get a external hard drive next month.

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I HAVE HAD THE EXACT PROBLEM BURNING DVD'S, on and off for over a year now. It doesn't appear to be a "media" issue because it won't burn in ANY application regardless if it is a DV Stream, MPEG4, Quicktime, etc. I have tried it in TOAST 7, iDVD and I get this message:
THE DRIVE REPORTED AN ERROR SENSE KEY=MEDIUM ERROR SENSE CODE= 0x73,0x03
In all cases the application will "process" and encode the media, then when it gets to the recording part on the DVD, it consistently spits out the DVD and displays the message above.
NOT SURE what I can do. Have worked 10 years as an editor from AVID to Final Cut and this error seems to be inherent in the hardware. Maybe Apple can investigate this and provide us with an alternate writer for the G4.
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Hi
I'm having some trouble and i think it's very strange.
I can't record audio or data cd's!
i've used sonic reducer, as nero, as windows media player..tried 3 different brands of cd'r and i can't burn audio or data files in any of those..BUT...on the other hand i can burn DVD'S...this is very strange right?
Ps: when i record with nero i keep having this message on the relatory of the burning process : "power calibration error" but only i when i try to burn cd´s.. dvd's recording doesn't have this problem
do i need to update some drivers?
please any help would be super or i will have to make a big trip to solve the problem on the laptop shop.
regards

"Power calibration" - When burning a CD the drive tries to write a test signal to the disk to set the calibration of the laser. If it cannot write a readable signal, this is called a "power calibration error". The error message usually means that there is something wrong with the media.
Please try to use few different empty CDs (Verbatim, TDK, Maxell and others).
Check also this page http://www.cd-burner-help.com/power-calibration.htm
Maybe helps.
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Sense Key = HARDWARE ERROR
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http://www.bilious.org/filez/forums/Apple/Drive%20Error%2001a.png
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http://www.bilious.org/filez/forums/Apple/Drive%20Error%2001b.png
(Thankyou to user: billious, for the images)
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