henry - no i did'nt/i was'nt able to.
kadri - no problems with my PSU.
i talked with an avadirect customer support guy back on friday and though he could solve my problem, he thought it was probably software related, he suggested i try and i see if i could re-install windows 7 or re-install it on a different drive, and try and retrive the files off the old hard drive.
i think im going to order a new SATA harddrive, i just have one on my machine currently.
its funny this problem happened at this time, shortly before i was planning on getting a new computer...