Pavilion a6700f hangs on HP Splash Screen, but does boot up after 10 minutes

I've got a new (2 months old) Pavilion a6700f
Everything was working fine the first six weeks
Not sure what triggered this, but now, when I try to start / restart the computer
It gets to the HP splash screen and just hangs there for over 5 minutes (literally)
Then it goes to a black screen for another 3 minutes or so,
Till it finally says its loading Windows, where it boots into Vista 64 and all is working
I was thinking its something going on with the BIOS
So I downloaded one from HP, old bios was 5.28, "new" one is 5.17 (that is what it has now)
This had no impact on the 10 minute boot up
Anyone have any ideas?

When you don't have the BIOS update for download then it is not possible to get it from any where.
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