My computer has recently started freezing 10 min after boot up. I had an incident the other day where i was testing a different mobo in my tower but when i was putting back the wires for the front USB port i accidently put them on back to front resulting in them melting their plastic coating and ever so slightly burnt the sata cable. Ive disconnected these wires and it was working fine for a few days, ive checked the HDD for errors and its fine, used system restore and still same problem. Could a slightyly damaged sata cable cause the system to freeze up? It even freezes in safe mode?