K8NGM2 Long boot with Nvidia RAID enabled SOLVED

Hi,
I just bought the K8NGM2 and first had the engineering bios... i upgraded to version 3.10 without any problems.
After I setup my RAID array The computer will boot, get past the RAID press f10 screen and get stuck at "Checking NVRAM" for about (timed) at 60 seconds!
That's a really long time! First couple of times I thought the computer had froze. After 60 seconds it will continue booting normally.
Is there any reason why enabling raid causes this to take so long to boot? I've had previous raid 0 setups and nothing took this long to boot.
Also, my HDD on this completely new computer is two Western Digital Caviar WD2500SD 250gb RE drives on SATA cables 1 and 2. The raid array is also
setup up correctly, striped for raid 0.
This is really frustrating because i really like this motherboard. Unfortunately I'm not sure what to do!

SOLVED
Sigh, computers really throw you for a loop sometimes!
I had my Plextor DVD-RW set as master on IDE 1, NO slave (no second drive)
I also had my Benq DVD-ROM set as master on IDE 2, NO slave (no second drive)
Both were on separate cables.
After disconnecting both i the computer booted normally even with RAID enabled.
I found out that setting two masters on two cables on the IDE controller would cause the computer to hang for at least 60 seconds.
SOLUTION:
Use The Plextor as Master, and the Benq as the Slave on ONE IDE cable.
POSSIBLE SOLUTION 2:
Set the Plextor and Benq as Cable Select if using separate cables.
Boots very quickly now. Hope this helps.

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