MSI P4N SLI, Long wait before BIOS post? (nForce 4 SLI Intel)

Does anyone else have a P4N SLI? Or maybe you might just know anyway...
Everytime I boot the PC, before the BIOS POST even starts theres a long wait (insanely long, compared to other PCs and mobos I've had and used) around 45 sec to a minute, where nothing is shown on the monitor and the DVD and CD drives are constantly read (even though theres nothing inside em). Then the BIOS post comes and the rest of the whole process is fast as I could wish for....
Is that normal with the P4N SLI or maybe even with nForce motherboards?
If not, any ideas what it could be? (I tried stripping my pc down to barebones, minimal RAM, no extra cards, 1 hdd and 1 cd drive (and even without the cd drive) yet still it takes the same amount of time...)
Please help...
Thanks in advance.
my specs are as follows:
Intel P4 w/HT 3.0 Ghz LGA775 Land, 1 MB L2 Cache (530J)
Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS
3 GB DDR2 @ 533 Mhz
3 HDDs (1 WD Caviar 7200 RPM SATA I, 1 Maxtor 7200 RPM SATA I/II, 1 WD Caviar SE 7200 RPM SATA I/II)
GIGABYTE 3DAurora Case (this case has 3 x 120mm fans)
GIGABYTE 3D Cooler Pro Fan
2 SONY Optical Drives (1 DVD/CD-RW, 1 DVD+/-RW)
MSI P4N SLI mobo
2 x XFX 7900 GTs
Thermaltake Toughpower 600W PSU

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Do you mean
1GB, 512MB, 1GB, 512MB?
Sorry, ya thats what i meant, 2 GB was a mistake. Its 1 GB, 512, 1, 512.
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As stated before. Remove the 512meg sticks. To run properly, all sticks should be the same. Reason is due to timings and voltages. Also try to up the voltages to the cpu.
I removed the 512 sticks before, like I said, and I'm just running with the 2 x 1GB sticks, it hasnt had any positive effect on the long wait before POST. The voltage for the RAM is 1.8v right now as according to the BIOS, is that the correct value?
Did I mention that during this long wait my monitor is in sleep mode, then 1 short beep is heard, the lights on my keyboard reset as is usual on any PC and the BIOS does its POST (if i pause after the keyboard lights, its usually auto-detecting my HDDs, and optical drives). It's strange because during that long wait nothing is happening other than my cd drive and dvd drive intermittently flashing and my HDD light is constantly on....
The strange thing is this same setup was working perfectly fine on my old Intel D915GEV motherboard... and it also runs perfectly fine on this mobo too, once you get past the 1 minute+ waiting time...

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