Thanks for all the input guys!
This is a pretty busy week for me and in any spare time i get i'm enjoying geeking out in WoW:Cataclysm
Planning a re-build / trouble shoot session over the weekend.
Update regarding the system at the moment, i re-instlaled with IDE/legacy mode. Windows + Drivers loaded smoothly. Couple of 'quirky' problems since then:
- had the one time when it froze just after POST, on the drive detection part.
- if anyone knows the WoW launcher, my system has been sitting on 'applying non-critical updates' since the weekend... The game runs fine, along with any other applicatiosn i use.
- windows updates failed to load properly on the restart, failed and said 'reverting changes' after taking longer than it should. This just happened last night.