dragon_unleash said:No motherboard should take that long time for the beep. Try booting your pc with only the basic hdware. Remove hdd, dvdwriter, gfx card and try booting and then see what happens.
That is very interesting. Don't know why it should make a difference but the obvious next step should have been to try the HDD on another SATA port.njankit said:3. Added the HDD to SATA0 port (as marked on mobo) n now it took 6 sec.
4. Added the DVDD to SATA1 port n now it took 9 sec.
5. Switched DVDD to SATA2 port n now it took 7 sec.