Late 2011 macbook pro a1278 no keyboard or trackpad

LATE 2011 MBP a1278 , i5 , running Mountain Lion 10.8.5
Keyboard and Trackpad stopped working after a regular shut down with no peripherals attached or bluetooth on.
Keyboard allows pram and smc reset before entering OS X environment . Only power button works while in operating environment- all other functions kb and trackpad do not work while system is booted. External Usb keyboard, usb mouse and bluetooth keyboard work fine except the usb port nearest the screen, it supplies power to devices but will not transfer data. The Trackpad is new , and works on a test machine without issue. The fan stays on high regardless of pram and smc reset as I believe it does not see the trackpad, and as a result does not see the heat sensor built into it.
Have the latest firmware upgrades installed to current, Tried turning bluetooth off booting with no peripherals attached,restarting in safe boot, putting to sleep then waking up, repaired disk permissions a few unrelated to the problem, tried different os x on other hard drives... then fresh installed Lion 10.7 then updated, upgraded to ML 10.8.5 , deleted that then clean installed Mountain Lion -no change.I have even tried terminal command to re enable keyboard and trackpad. I have read other threads that suggest it`s a software issue but have went through all that. Why is the keyboard working at boot but not in the os x itself? Trackpad as mentioned is new and works fine in a test machine.Frustrating when there is no reason as to this problem - given external mouse and keyboard work fine..
Running Apple Hardware Test soon and will post back- it`s extremely slow given a kernel is at 94% in normal OSX , and while in safe boot drops down to 1% . In safe boot, the internal trackpad and keyboard still do not work but externals are all fine, with web pages loading quickly. This internal keyboard and trackpad worked fine in a different system.
The original recovery partition on the HDD is lost as the hard drive has been replaced. Are there drivers specific to this machine that are potentially missing and need to be reinstalled, like the system recovery discs that came with early 2011 Macbok Pros?
If anyone has ideas as to what`s up, appreciate the response. TIA ...

"Only power button works while in operating environment- all other functions kb and trackpad do not work while system is booted. External Usb keyboard, usb mouse and bluetooth keyboard work fine except the usb port nearest the screen, it supplies power to devices but will not transfer data."
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