Pcie sata III card

I have replaced the airport card of my mid 2010 iMac with a pcie sata III card which works fine (I can even boot from it) but it takes 3 minutes now for the screen to come up and start the OS.
I believe it is some sort of hardware initialization/negotiation that takes that time. Or maybe the system keeps ckeing for the airport card.
Anyone got anmy idea how to solve this? Thank you in anticipation!

Hi BDAqua,
Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately that time (which seems to be almost 4 minutes) is simply missing form the system log (see below).
2013-02-23 21:14:02 +0000 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[121]: Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2013-02-23 21:14:02 +0000 shutdown[259]: reboot by John:
2013-02-23 21:17:58 +0000 bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1361654278 0
2013-02-23 21:18:00 +0000 kernel[0]: Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.0: Sat Aug 25 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64

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