New Hard Drive today, now it keeps restarting itself Help!

Our iMac just received a new hard drive and cable today and it has been randomly restarting itself all evening. It began with us returning to the computer and not being able to wake it up. We needed to manually power down and restart. Since then it has not gone to sleep but will randomly restart itself. It is now happening every 5 minutes.
Does anyone know if there is some sort of setting I am missing??
Thanks in advance.

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If that doesn't help, try Resetting the System Management Controller

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