Error 12990.

#12990 - Illegal laser power calibration error while burning CDs.

 

Defective or cheap CD-R media most commonly causes this error. Try another brand of blank CD-R media if you have any. Some drives cant handle test burns. Restart your computer (including turning off power to your external CD-R drive, if you have one) and try burning a CD without doing a test burn first. If changing the brand does not help, try this:

 

1. You'll need to uninstall Pyro.

 

2. Click the Windows Start button and select Run. At the prompt type REGEDIT and click OK.

 

3. Backup your Registry before making edits - you do this by clicking the Registry menu, Export Registry File.

 

4. Now delete the following Registry keys

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk Pyro

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk Pyro

 

5. To ensure that other programs are not interfering with the operation of Pyro, do the following.

 

Turn off auto-insert notification for all of your CD drives (click Start, Settings, Control Panel, System, Device Manager) In XP, put a CD in and select "Take No Action" and put a check where it says Always Take this Action."

In Win 98/ME/XP, choose Start | Run and type MSCONFIG. Click OK, then click on the Startup tab at the upper right of the window that opens. Uncheck all items listed, click OK, and then restart your computer. You can always recheck those items again at a later time. In Win 2000, click Ctrl+Alt+Del and manually End Task on the items you don't need running. Restart

 

6. Now reinstall Pyro

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