K8N Neo pauses for 30s on reboot - why?

I have K8N Neo MB with Windows XP SP1 installed.
I have the 1.42 bios.
When I reboot my machine, after the initial boot stuff (BIOS, etc), I get a black screen for 30 - 40 seconds and then I see the Windows XP screen followed by the login prompt.
What's it doing for 30 - 40 seconds (black screen). I don't see any HD activity so it's not loading or saving any data.
Any ideas?

Yea, you can download bootable DOS image files.
http://www.drd.dyndns.org/howto/cdboot.html
Try that for a 2.88mb bootable CD.
You can also burn other things on the CD as well such as Norton Ghost or whatever.
It's sort of funny in our day and age that DOS is still needed in some cases - hehe.

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