Startup disk issues with a new SSD

Ok so last week I had what I thought was a hard drive failure. In disk utility I could not see the drive and thought it must be corrupt. It's been on my mind to buy an SSD anyway and so bit the bullet and bought a Samsung EVO 840 500GB.
After installing the SSD with the OSX that shipped with my Macbook Pro 13 Inch Nov 2013 everything seemed to be ok. Then I decided after testing to upgrade to Mavericks 10.9.2 and still everything was fine. Now after going to the trouble of installing all my software and tranfering my backups, every time I start up the machine I'm getting the flashing question mark folder. If I go into internet recovery and startup disk > restart everything is fine. But if I go idle it beachballs, if I restart or start I get the flashing folder.
I have done everything I can think of:
1. Internet recovery (Cmd + "R") - tried this several times and disk verifies as ok.
2. System preferences > Startup Disk - tried setting this, made no difference
3. Reset the PRAM (Cmd + Option + "R" + "P") - tried this several times to no avail
4. Diagnostic hardware test (Hold down "D") - ran the test and all hardware is ok
Is there something I am missing here? I've even took the mac apart and double checked the connection on the SATA, seems to be fine?
Cheers in advance
Pete

Did you try a SMC reset?
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
Also consider taking the SSD out and installing it in an enclosure.  Then connect it to the MBP and see if it will boot from it externally.  If it does, then there is an internal connection issue.
Ciao.

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