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Hard drive cable not sure if it needs replacing
I have an HP windows 7 64bit Fully updated via windows update.
Over the years I have slowly upgraded parts inside here and there.
One of the things I upgraded was the harddrive from 750gb to 1TB...The old one went out had bad sectors.
Everything has been working fine for years and years...recently I took some canned air and blew out the dust from inside of the computer while in conjunction holding the vacuum hose to suck up the dust. After doing that I had a couple problems with the harddrive not sure if it's going out again, the motherboard is acting up, or if the harddrive cable just needs to be replaced.
I'm pretty sure it's the harddrive cable and I can pick up another one for $6 but I wanna make sure positively before I go out and buy it.
The first thing that happened was the whole computer locked up and nothing was working not even ctrl+alt+delete. I manually turned off the computer and turned it back on. After turning it back on it was just a black screen nothing happened, I was able to table F9 and go into diagnosis and it said "boot path test, BIOHD-5" test failed.
I then restarted the computer and it said to turn off computer immediately and replace harddrive (I was in a panic) I then opened up the computer and checked all cables and connections. Completely took out the harddrive made sure there was no dust plugged it all back in. Turned the computer back on and everything was working fine, back to normal.
This morning the same thing happened, I turned the computer on started using it and again the whole computer locked up. I manually turned off the computer restarted and it said disk error ctrl+alt+delete to restart. So I again I opened the computer and checked all cables, unplugged and plugging them back in. Closed up the computer and boom started working perfectly again.
So after all is said and done what is the problem? Is the cable just old and needs replacing or the harddrive going out? Or maybe the motherboard?
Thanks for reading,
Summer