Bios Hangs when Ipod Shuffle pluged in.

Hello,
I have an iPod Shuffle 512mb and whne I leave it pluged into a USB port my computer hangs at the intial bios screen. It hangs right after detecting the CPUs. I have a ASUS PC-DL (bios 1009) with 2x 1.6Ghz LV Xeons (overclocked to 2.64Ghz) and 2x512 Kingston Ram. I have read the support pages on this problem and it and have triend disbaling the "boot from other devices" (aka usb). This did not solve my problem. What I found interesting was that my computer hangs in a diffrent spot then were the tech article says it should. As stated it hangs right after detecting CPUs and not at the screen as if it was trying to load an OS from the Shuffle. If I do not boot with out the shuffle in the computer does not load. I have left the computer just sitting to see if it would load for ~30 minutes and nothing, as soon as I removed the shuffle and rebooted the system would it work.
I was wondering if anyone had similar problems or knew of any fixes.
Shelnutt2

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