Plextor 714a IDE Phantom burning: Help?

I have a Plextor IDE drive and now the strangest thing has happened.

In Nero (or any burning software), I attempt to burn data to a DVD/CD and the program goes though the entire routine, error free. The burning light on the drive is active, and I can hear the disk spin up.


When the process is finished, the disk is still blank (used a verity of disks). Anyone seen this issue?

Ok, so I looked in the copy of Nero that I have, Nero Express 6, and I don't see a "Test Burn" feature like there is in the Roxio 7 package that I use more commonly. What version of Nero are you using? Also, have you tried using Plextor's PlexTools? If you carefully poke around there you can access a lot of nifty drive features and can see if something looks amiss.

-mcg

Have you tried different media?

Sorry for the late reply as I was not notified though email that a response was made.



I have several known good media brands (Verbatim,...) All produce the same effects. I have taken one disk that was "phantom burned" and burned to it on a different computer"




Plextools I have used and no errors reported.

The only thing I can think of is that the circuit board / internal PSU is bad and doesn't provide the power to write to the disk.