My desktop had the faulty sandy bridge mobo and I think today the connection to the hard drive died.
Randomly my computer crashed and after about a minute turned off. My next 2 attempts to boot lead to a screen which had a message along the lines of "cannot read hard drive". I then managed to boot to windows but crashed straight away and turned off again. I then managed to boot into safe mode and backed up all my pictures/personal files. Tried to boot normally and it wouldn't work anymore.
What are my options and how can I be sure that its actually the mobo connection causing the problem?
Is it better to buy a SATA 3 hard drive or a new motherboard?
Thank you for any help
Randomly my computer crashed and after about a minute turned off. My next 2 attempts to boot lead to a screen which had a message along the lines of "cannot read hard drive". I then managed to boot to windows but crashed straight away and turned off again. I then managed to boot into safe mode and backed up all my pictures/personal files. Tried to boot normally and it wouldn't work anymore.
What are my options and how can I be sure that its actually the mobo connection causing the problem?
Is it better to buy a SATA 3 hard drive or a new motherboard?
Thank you for any help