Computer won't boot up!

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Joe1991

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Hey,

Recently my computer was having a lot of bluescreens and other errors. I eventually found It out to be the HDD, It started clicking so that must have been causing the errors and was ready to die. I bought a new HDD, plugged It In and decided to clean the case while I had It apart.

With everything cleaned I plugged everything back (barely unplugged any wires, just to do a little dusting) and turned It5 on with the win 7 disc Inside. It would get to the "Windows Is loading files" screen, get so far a just completely shut off. If you turn It on, It will turn off and If you try to turn It on again straight after It will just light up for a split-second and shut straight back down again.

I was thinking the PSU, but It Is really unusual for It to stop working all of a sudden after I cleaned It.

Any Ideas? It's driving me nuts
 
Sounds like a loose connection, which is very possible considering you had stuff disconnected. Try unplugging your connections and plugging them back in.
 
Ugh.

Ok so I just messed about with It. Turns out there was a little dust In the corner of the CPU (don't know If this was the cause) and I changed the RAM from the blue coloured slots to the white ones. I booted up and voilà It worked.

I just started to Install a game when It stopped at like 3% and said It could be due to a corrupt HDD (new HDD In, so not that) scratched disc yadadad. So I took the disc out and It was pretty scratched so I thought "that's why" and seconds later boom, a damn blue screen. My computer restarted...

I have had damn bluescreens for months and always thought It was the HDD (which was broke, so needed replacing anyway.

It's not overheating. I have plenty of fans running and the Inside of the case Is nice and cool.
Any Ideas?

EDIT: Would like to add, I only really see bluescreens when my comp Is going something strenuous, like playing a game, or running multiple programmes or Installing a game.
 
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