Hello World! A few weeks back my Dell started acting up after being shutdown for the night. When I try to turn it on the screen shows that no "boot device available" or "HDD failure." Funny thing is when I shutdown through my power button and try turning it on again, it works normally and Windows boots up.
I read online that it may be the CMOS, nope. Tried to replace the old SATA cables in hopes that there was a bad connection with my old ones, nope. Tried defragmenting(Surprised that I had 7.0gb worth of data fragmented, then again I got the computer back in '09 and never did defragment it) because Windows may have had its boot sectors messed up, nope. Tried switching the placement of the new SATA cables, moved HDD to SATA-1, CD Drive to SATA-0, nope.
When I was testing my new SATA cables by powering up, shutting down, and powering up right after shutdown a few times, Windows loaded normally. But when I waited for five minutes and then tried to turn it on, I got the "HDD failure." But it still worked after I tried turning it on the second time around.
Another funny thing that I saw after switching the SATA placement, was when I logged in I got a little Windows detecting hardware symbol, with it popping up and telling me that it installed new drivers for my CD Drive, and HDD.
Anyone have an idea as to what I should try to do next?
I read online that it may be the CMOS, nope. Tried to replace the old SATA cables in hopes that there was a bad connection with my old ones, nope. Tried defragmenting(Surprised that I had 7.0gb worth of data fragmented, then again I got the computer back in '09 and never did defragment it) because Windows may have had its boot sectors messed up, nope. Tried switching the placement of the new SATA cables, moved HDD to SATA-1, CD Drive to SATA-0, nope.
When I was testing my new SATA cables by powering up, shutting down, and powering up right after shutdown a few times, Windows loaded normally. But when I waited for five minutes and then tried to turn it on, I got the "HDD failure." But it still worked after I tried turning it on the second time around.
Another funny thing that I saw after switching the SATA placement, was when I logged in I got a little Windows detecting hardware symbol, with it popping up and telling me that it installed new drivers for my CD Drive, and HDD.
Anyone have an idea as to what I should try to do next?