Issue with fairly New PC...

Eightdevil

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Okay, here's the deal.

Earlier this week, my computer suddenly restarted. When it did, I just started it back up. Then, after logging into Windows, it suddenly restarts again. The hard drive isn't showing up in the BIOS. Long story short, I switch the SATA cable from the hard drive to another port on the motherboard, and it works. Until today. Today, it restarts again, and even switching the SATA cable doesn't help. Most of the time, the hard drive shows up in the BIOS, but sometimes it doesn't. Now the computer just will NOT boot into Windows no matter what I do...

So, any ideas what might be the problem?
 

daveybrat

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Test the hard drive with the manufacturer's diagnostics utility. Also try a new sata cable like Bill suggested.