DELL STUDIO 1535 WILL NOT BOOT UP ERROR CODE 0146

Hello here is some info about your dell:

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3514/p/19342733/19736103.aspx#19736103

Error 0146 indicates a failed/failing hard drive or bad drive sector.
Basically, this means your hard drive will need to be replaced.

Even more here:

http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&cat=cmu&k=error+code+2000-0146&rpp=12&p=1&rf=all&nk=f&ira=False&~srd=False&ipsys=False&advsrch=False


Here is the home page:

http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/Product/studio-1735

A computer repair shop can help you with recover your data if is not damaged by the bad sectors.

I recomend to change the system to windows 7 (32bit) because the support for vista is out by this year.

Good luck

2000-0142 and 2000-0146 are hard drive SMART errors, indicating the HDD will fail.
To boot message about the AC adapter was a BIOS level message that normally appears when a Auto/air ac adapter or other 65 watt ac adapter is used to power the system.

the Error code was sited below as the (Disk Self Test) DST Log contains previous error(s)

in case of your error DST log contains previous error(s) doing a chkdsk /r or a repair reinstall of xp might resolve the issue.
to resolve issue...


Error Code Error Message 1000-0141
or
2000-0141 No Drive Detected 1000-0142
or
2000-0142 Drive Self Test Failed Status Byte=XXh 1000-0143
or
2000-0143 Drive Smart Read Command Failed 1000-0144
or
2000-0144 No Support for Drive Self Test Error Code Error Message 1000-0145
or
2000-0145 Timeout waiting for Drive Self Test to complete 1000-0146
or
2000-0146 DST Log contains previous error(s) 1000-0147
or
2000-0147 Unit (x): IDE status failed. Status byte = (x) Control Code = (x) Msg = (s) 1000-0148
or
2000-0148 IDE ERROR: status (x) (s)

it seems u have got into a hardware failure or physical ram prob

This error code is related with the hard drive problem. There is a possibility of hard drive failure.

Should be on a sticker located on the bottom of the laptop. Or on the box you got the laptop in,

Code 0146 is hard drive read/write failure.

Replace the hard disk drive

2000-0146 is indicating a hard drive failure which is why it won't boot.