mate has just dropped a laptop on me saying that it doesn't work can i sort it out?

Anyway went to turn it on and was met with a notice saying

No Bootable Devises - strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for set up utility. press f5 tp run onboard diagnostics?

Any ideas?

just ran the onboard diagnostics to be greeted with the following message

Error code 0147
Msg: Error Code 2000 - 0147
Msg: 0:Optical drive BIST -- S[indle test failed.
The given error code and message can be used by DELL Technical support to help diagnose the problem.
Do you want to continue testing? Yes, No ot Retry?

Pretty self explanatory really when you read it lol

Pretty self explanatory really when you read it lol

Change the first boot device from the cd to the hard drive and get a new cd drive?

[Edited on 29/11/09 by prawnabie]

very whitty shaun, im after constructive help on this one!

Hence the ... change the first boot device from cd to hdd lol

my IBM thinkpad went bonkers, changed the lithium battery and normal slow service resumed.

rgds mark

sounds like it broken,,,,,

normal fault would be duff hard drive...

yourwelcome to get it to me for mates rates

If will boot off a boot CD then it is worth worth opening up the drive bay and checking the conector is in properly but if both HD connector and memory modules are firmly in place but can't see the hard disk then it is likely the minimum damage is the hard disk has physically crashed particularly if it was running when dropped ---

As said before, this error code means the OPTICAL drive has failed and needs to be replaced. Earlier Inspirons would cease booting if they failed on the spindle test. I would just unplug the cd drive, change the boot order and run it without a drive, or get an external one if it is a must.