Something doesn't seem right with start-up

Maybe I'm going mad but something doesn't seem right. When I start-up I get the usual chime, the power light comes on, I hear the drive whir a bit, the fans have a quick blow and the I get a black screen for about 30 seconds. After this the light goes out & the screen turns grey, then I get the grey sceen + apple and the 'wheel thing' followed by the blue screen and normal start-up. Perhaps this is normal, but I'm sure I never used to get the 30 second delay with the black screen and I used to go straight to grey if you see what I mean. Am I going mad or is the delay unusual??
Neil

I know it's bad form to reply to your own post but thought someone might be interested to hear how I've sorted this one out. Thought I'd try starting up in safe mode and running FSCK, but having never done this before wasn't quite sure what to expect! When it started up I just got page after page of 'techno-jargon' which didn't look good - especially when every line seem to have the word error in it - can't remember exactly what it said but each line had something with USB along with numbers and letters and an error message (yes - I know this isn't very clear but the memory's beginning to fail). Anyway because this wasn't looking too good I decided to reboot and unplug everything from my USB ports (including a 7 port USB 2 hub) and restart. Lo and behold problem sorted. Then plugged it back in again and tried again - back to original problem. However noticed that the LED on my graphics tablet wasn't lighting up so unplugged that from the hub, reinstalled the drivers and tried again. Now everything seems to be back to normal. The black screen on start-up lasts just a couple of seconds and we're back to the normal start-up time. Weird, but at least I can now sleep easy!
Neil

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