Quote Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue View Post
can you update your signature with the new info.

how many and what kind of drives?

did you clear cmos with the battery out and power cord unplugged for about five minutes?...make sure you push the power button once after unplugging the PSU power cord to dump all the capacitors of any stored current...then go through the cmos clearing with the battery out.

if you unhooked the drives at one time, CMOS might still have that data stored and it is looking for the drives and other USB devices that were once attached....it sounds like a conflict of assigned resources.
Figured out. The issue was my USB card reader. With it detached, it booted-up fine. And then in the bios, I disabled the 'USB Storage Function' and now able to boot-up normally with the card reader.

Thanks for the suggestions!