Frequent crashes, disk read errors, trouble booting

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For a while now I've had occasional crashes requiring a manual reboot, which will be followed by a disk read error. I can generally get it to boot by shutting down and disconnecting and reconnecting the HDD. Then it got worse, and I replaced my hard drive. It was all good for a while, but now I'm getting the same thing and most recently it has been worse than ever.

I'll be using my PC with no problems when suddenly everything will slow down, progressively getting slower, to the point where nothing will work. Following a manual reboot, sometimes I get disk read error, sometimes I get "Reboot and select proper boot device." Sometimes it just hangs before getting to the Starting Windows screen. Sometimes it gets to the Starting Windows screen, but goes nowhere. Then, rarest of all, sometimes it boots just fine. I'm at a loss. I replaced the HDD, restored my BIOS, reset the CMOS manually, along with various other solutions and I just don't know what's going on.

If anyone has any idea what's wrong here, or has any suggestions to find out/fix it, I'd highly appreciate it.
 
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Yeah, check or replace your SATA cables. Other than that, if 2 drives are having the same identical issues, you may have a failing motherboard, or possibly PSU. A PSU that is getting ready to fail can cause your system all sorts of weird issues. Power spikes and plunges can cause read/write errors, and a whole host of other issues that at first may not seem to be PSU related. We cannot, I repeat cannot stress enough the importance of a PSU that supplies clean, steady power. This is the very first basic building block for ANY system. So be sure to check that out as well.
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Yeah, check or replace your SATA cables. Other than that, if 2 drives are having the same identical issues, you may have a failing motherboard, or possibly PSU. A PSU that is getting ready to fail can cause your system all sorts of weird issues. Power spikes and plunges can cause read/write errors, and a whole host of other issues that at first may not seem to be PSU related. We cannot, I repeat cannot stress enough the importance of a PSU that supplies clean, steady power. This is the very first basic building block for ANY system. So be sure to check that out as well.
 
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sgtenders

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I actually have the exact same PSU as you and it's only 6 months old, so while it could certainly be that, I'm going to try changing out the SATA cables first since the only problems I'm having seem to be HDD issues. I feel kind of stupid to have not tried that already, but for some reason I find cables easy to overlook. It'll be a couple of days before I can switch 'em out, but I'll post again when I've done it. Thanks!
 
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