It was very bizarre, swapped out the mouse to a differing rear usb and lo and behold it works, managed to get to safemode, repair pc, etc with no issues, system restored to yesterday and its all fine now. Whats strange is now the old rear usb doesnt work at all.
Will be running memtest over night, but the ram is about a week old - i's wondering since i added the ssd, that perhaps i should upgrade the bios, as the mb still has version 1 on it and there is a version 2 thats stable apparently.