Temperamental Mobo/HDD?

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Yeah okay. So another HDD. The last one in my PC has apparently just given up the ghost and it's only 6-8 months old. Third one in a year from Western Digital thats quit in such a short space of time and I'm very unhappy about it.

Was playing World of Tanks, PC froze. Now seeing as how occasionally Windows gets kinda confused because one of my USB drivers is kinda dodgy, it sometimes needs a hard reset. Every few months it does it so i never really took any notice. In fact this is the first time it's froze in a while. So i hit the reset button on my PC. But it sat at the Asus logo for about 5 minutes before an American Megatrends thing appeared telling me the HDD was toast. - Fan screaming for whatever reason. THEN it said 'No boot device found' yadayada.

Now the HDD is still spinning up and the HDD activity light is still registering activity. So you can't possibly tell me this thing has supposedly died in a short amount of time. It's hardly done any work for crying out loud. So. I'm going to dig up my board model number and put it on here. I do know it has a UEFI Asus BIOS, though. Does anybody have any ideas? or is the thing actually dead for real - in which case i'm going to go smack my face off the desk.

Thanks for any input guys.

Edit: So after some tinkering. Swearing. Swapping cables around and eventually smacking the damn thing off the desk, i got it to boot. However i did have to reset the BIOS twice, and play around with AHCI/IDE and UEFI/CSM modes to get the bloody thing to start. Now if i shut-down the PC, i need to do the whole process again. So for now i just wont turn it off. In the meantime, anyone have any clue why it's being as weird? is this the HDD or potentially a Mobo component on it's way out. The HDD itself shows up as fine after running a diskinfo check on it. It reported back the HDD condition was 'Good'. and Read/Write speeds around 350MB-400MB/s. - Asus Desktop Mobo, UEFI BIOS with the 1155 intel socket. (can't for the life of me find the model number). 2013-14 ish date purchased. Was getting another error "Boot Device Incompatible, Go to UEFI BIOS > Advanced >CSM Parameters". This thing is just odd. It was fine one minute and now it's giving me these bizarre messages. Not to mention my UEFI Bios interface is just dumb so i'm having problems figuring out what it actually means.