couldnt be .. this rig is only a year old .. chenming case with 2 exhaust fans and 1 intake window fan. couldnt be an old hd either, it's only a year old ..
It basically means that your disc is damaged somehow. Whether thats corrupted files that are needed in order to boot up or something else, who knows. The instructions you just wrote down yourself are probably the only thing you can do. I had this happen to me once, dont think I was able to fix it and eventually formatted…