Takes 3 minutes to start up?

Hello,
Everything was going great when using my eMac. I then shut it off and came back 30 minutes later and hit the power switch and expecting the white sreen with the apple logo well i was sitting there for a good 3-4 minutes waiting for it to come on. Then it did and it booted as normal. I restarted it and it did the same thing. It used to take 3-4 seconds after the chime for the screen not 3-4 minutes. I checked apple's resources no help. any help would be greatly appreciated.

After the computer has finished starting up, open the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences and select the hard disk as the startup disk, or press the X key when you turn the computer on.
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