oh yeah I scanned/updated just about everything humanly possible... that isn't the cause nor the cure...

And i now vaguely remember one thing that I did do... I unplugged the power connector from my IDE Hard drive, but left the IDE ribbon in, and hooked the SATA drive in, in laziness, the system ran unstably, so I removed the IDE ribbon, I thought nothing of it... but logically it seemed harmless.