Macbook Pro Lion won't but then suddenly boots

I have a Macbook Pro that I recently put a new larger hard drive in as well as extra memory. I put a 1 TB hard drive 7200 RPM (it haD A 500 GB 7200 RPM previously) in it and upgraded to 8 gb of memory. This is a Macbook Pro 8,2. I am running Lion and reinstalled it completely on the new hard drive. All was well for a while. But now all of a sudden I am having intermitent problems. It crashes, then I get the wavy looking lines on the startup screen …then it goes to a gray screen with no mouse pointer and never boots. I have tried all the solutions I could find here ….Internet Recovery, Hardware diagnosis, Safe mode and then tried to use the HD Recovery partition option. Nothing worked. I then put in the old RAM in. Still nothing. I tried all the different fix options again and did not get any results. I then tried rebooting it several times the regular way and nothing. I tried swapping out the old hard drive and got nothing. Hardware tests indicate nothing is wrong. I tried those again. Again they indicated nothing wrong. I was about to just give up and tried rebooting again and all of a sudden, no squiggly lines and it booted. But I don't feel secure here. Any suggestions would be welcome. I do have a backup with Time machine. But if I have a dead machine that does me no good except for the purchase of a new computer.

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Vendor ID:          0x14e4
Device ID:          0x16b4
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Subsystem ID:          0x16b4
Revision ID:          0x0010
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2.I have a faulty Magsafe adaptor that has a corroded cable but it keeps charging and I'm waiting for my new Magsafe adaptor.
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