[nVidia Series] Problems with boot time for p4n sli

Question

I have spent a couple of hours digging trying to find out some information.
I bought the p4n sli (not diamond) and everything seems to work fine, BUT the boot time is very long.  It seems to try to access the dvd drive for 30 to 45 seconds and then it will boot.  Once it starts to boot I get 4 error code beeps and one that sounds as if it would be the normal everything is good beep (the fifth beep is always different and usually in the middle of the four same tone beeps).
I have a intel 630 cpu, a nvidia 6800gt vid card, one gig of corsair dual channel memory and 1 gig of geil dual channel memory (I get the same errors without the different memory), I have a 450 thermaltake psu, a maxtor 120 gig sata drive and a 160 gig ide drive.
I have no problems with anything once the computer is booted up.  It just takes a lot longer to even start to boot than I have seen with modern computers.
The beep codes thread stated that
4 beeps - Timer not operational - bad motherboard
5 beeps - Processor error - bad processor
Would I still be able to run this computer if either of these was true?  I would love any advice.  I do not want to burn up anything.

Answer 1

Quote from: hcoshawn on 11-January-06, 05:21:01
hey LtDano38,
 Im sure that the beeps that you are hearing are on account of the amount of USB devices that you have hooked up. You should get one for every device, the low tone one that you hear is the bios beep saying that everything is normal. The USB beeps should come before the different tone one at the end.
 As for the boot time, i would try a different cd-row to see if it does the same. Also is the drive IDE or SATA?
GL and post back. 
ok, I do have four usb devices, a flight stick, a nostromo, and usb mouse and keyboard, I have one ide hd, one sata hd and an ide dvd.  I tried slaving the dvd off of the hd and with it by itself on the other ide channel.  My os is on the ide hd.  One last question, can I use anymore abbreviations?