Startup Volume screen keeps on appearing - no keys pressed though

I've had this problem since I've had my Mac mini (about a year now). Sometimes the startup volume screen appears despite not having any other Hard Drives connected apart from the boot drive (which is the internal Hard drive) and despite not pressing any keyboard keys on startup.
I am using 10.5.2 with the latest mini firmware and am unable to think what could be causing this? I have selected my main hard-drive in the startup disk preferences and have no permissions/hard drive problems (so says disk utility) but the problem persists. It's a minor annoyance but one I would welcome any help with.
Many thanks,
Paul
Message was edited by: Paul Woodford

Hi and many thanks for the reply.
The only drive I attach is a firewire one to do time machine backups but I always disconnect it once I've finished backing up (the firewire lead is still attached to my Mac though, just not to the drive).
The SMART status of the drive in Disk Utility is verified.
I've taken this Mac back once to be repaired for this problem but they found nothing wrong with it. It is a very intermittent problem though and only occurs rarely. A small, but annoying niggle. I am also using a KVM switch but I didn't have this problem with my last Mac, another mini, connected to the same KVM.

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"I've had this problem since I've had my Mac mini (about a year now). Sometimes the startup volume screen appears despite not having any other Hard Drives connected apart from the boot drive (which is the internal Hard drive) and despite not pressing any keyboard keys on startup.
I am using 10.5.2 with the latest mini firmware and am unable to think what could be causing this? I have selected my main hard-drive in the startup disk preferences and have no permissions/hard drive problems (so says disk utility) but the problem persists. It's a minor annoyance but one I would welcome any help with."
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1433640&tstart=0
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