Phone Unable to Restore

An odd thing happened today, I was just browsing the internet on my iPhone, doing the iPhone thing when it decides to restart. That's all fine and good, these things happen, but when it rebooted it showed the screen with the USB cable and the iTunes symbol indicating that a restore was needed. A bit annoyed, I plugged it in to my computer and it began to sync but after a short period I received an error from iTunes saying "iTunes cannot activate your iPhone because the SIM card is not inserted or a SIM PIN is required."
I've tried unplugging and replugging it back in, restarting it, restarting my computer, removing the SIM card and putting it back in but nothing seems to work, iTunes refuses to interface with the phone. The whole thing is just annoying as sin, any help would be much appreciated.

Hello erksonson,
It may help to try restoring with another USB cable.
Restore using another USB cable.
Restore your device on another computer.
If you continue to see error 4005, 4013, or 4014 when you restore your device, contact Apple for support.
iOS: Restore errors 4005, 4013, and 4014
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5314
Cheers,
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