BIOS slow booting issue

[quotemsg=1829629,1,449120]alright

brand new A7DA-S 3.0 mobo with athalon II 3.0GHz processor....4Gb ram....

the bios is painfully slow....it sits on the screen forever......even to get into the bios options takes forever....but once its there its fine....and the computer runs fine once the bios boots the OS....

so obviously something on the initial screen is slowing it down.....though I have no idea

i wiped the CMOS, and the bios is the latest version.....

i should probably play around with the stuff attached to it but whats on it is

1TB 7200 RPM sata
6GB really old HDD on the PATA along with a CD drive
3.5" floppy
one external 500G HDD hooked through USB

i mean even if unplugging one of these makes it work, what is it that makes it not work.....is it a ram check? or is it confused by all the HDD's??? is there a way i can make it work better so i don't have to say, unplug my external when I boot?

all the bios settings should be right....ie the boot order lists the correct drive, and the HDD's are prioritized correctly, quickboot is enabled[/quotemsg
setting the sata type IDE instead of sata/ahci will help a lot in getting to the windows boot faster.

How much RAM do you have?

It seems to me that "Quick Boot" is disabled, and therefore checks all of your RAM during bootup.

I have 8GB, and if I don't have quick boot enabled, it takes around 5 minutes to check all 8GB.