SN45G ide issues

[St3v3]

Hi

Just got a shuttle SN45G today and everything seemed fine until I tried to burn a DVD. Nero keeps giving me an error saying "Power Calibration Failed"

Specs of it are:

Athlon XP 1700
Single 512mb stick of ram
Radeon 9800 pro
2 seagate barracuda drives

If its because there is a lack of power, wouldn't the PC switch off?

So if it isn't that, what is it ?

[St3v3]

just to add .... it burns CDs fine.

[St3v3]

I just tried it at 2x burning but it still doesn't work at 4x

oh btw ... its a Pioneer 105 drive that i have

[Austin]

DVD Burning is still only just coming out of its infancy. Incompats are still not rare esp between diff brands of discs. It could be that your 2 HDs are drawing too much power though it should be okay. Plus 9800 though better than FX5900 is still a hungry beast too. Try unplugging a HD and ideally a lower end gfx card just to see. Do a search and check there aren't known issues with the Pioneer 105 ... I'm a LiteOn and NEC man myself.

BTW as you no doubt know, you're losing about 5% of your perf by using only 1 stick as 2 are needed to enable Dual Channel mode. I assume you are simply planning to add another 512MB stick at some future point.

[Stringent]

What PSU you got in your comp just out of interest?

[St3v3]

got an enhance 200w psu.

tried unplugging one of the drives but still no luck.

Think i'll just get a new drive when the 8x ones come out