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November 8th, 2008 21:00
Error Code 2000-0147 (optical drive)
People, please help me to overcome the following problem.
The dvd drive on my laptop (Dell XPS M1530) was damaged. I ordered a new one on eBay (DELL XPS M2010 1530 DVD+-RW DRIVE TEAC DV-W28SLB 0RF681). After it was replaced the BIOS doesn't recognize it, nighter CDs nor DVDs are recognized, although, physically it works properly, i.e. inserts and ejects (when I push the eject button on my laptop) the CD/DVD. When I run the BIOS diagnostic it passed perfectly on everything except the optical drive, and it stated the following error message:
Error Code 0147
Msg: Error Code 2000-0147
Msg: Unit 0: Optical drive BIST -- OPU test faild.
The given error code and message can be used by Dell Technical Support
to help diagnose the problem.
The only operating system that I have on my laptop is Linux-Mandriva Spring 2008 One, so I cannot install anything else.
Please, if anybody knows how the following problem may be overtaken please leave a feedback, I will greatly appreciate the provided help. Thank you very much in advance.
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Jeff Hoffman
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July 6th, 2010 10:00
You might want to reread this entire thread.......... Skybird says quite plainly the the error code means that the drive is dead. The soution is to replace the drive.
Jeff
lyfeautogroup
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November 29th, 2010 14:00
Brad,
I'm now having that same error msg 0147 on my dell. Has any solution been found?
abram veliz
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December 14th, 2011 19:00
I replaced my harddrive and It does not see it
It says no boot sector on internal drive, no bootable devices
when I boot up with windows disk it does not see anything
I went to pre-boot system assessment and I am getting error code 0147
msg: error code 2000-0147
msg: unit 0: optical drive bist--opu test failed.
osprey4
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December 15th, 2011 06:00
Hi Abram Veliz,
The error you receive is from your DVD drive, not the hard drive.
In order to use a new hard drive in the system, it is necessary to install Windows on the new drive. If you provide the model of your Dell and your operating system, I can give you a link to the instructions.
Adnan90
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February 8th, 2012 08:00
Hey, I bought a new hard drive and I am recieving an error code 0147
My Laptop is Inspiron 1440
Please help,
Thank you
osprey4
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February 8th, 2012 15:00
Hi Adnan90,
That error code indicates an IDE failure. Do you see the new hard drive in the BIOS?
jdforan
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December 16th, 2013 09:00
I called dell support and was told to take the cd/dvd drive out and put it back in. After doing that I ran the diagnostics again and did not get the error message anymore.
pablo21000
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March 9th, 2014 05:00
hi there Abram
im having a similar problem,just upgraded the hard drive,and it wont recognise the dvd/cd drive in the diagnosics test,any help would be reatly appreciared.
thanks pablo
osprey4
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March 9th, 2014 06:00
Hi Pablo,
If the drive does not appear in the diagnostics, and presumably not in the BIOS as well, it has either failed or is not connected properly.
shesagordie
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September 10th, 2014 12:00
This thread has been locked due to it's age, if you have a similar issue, please use the 'New Post' feature at the top of this page and start a new thread.
Bev.
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May 26th, 2019 04:00