P5GL-MX Extremely slow startup and performance

I have a pentium 5 HT 3GHz with ASUS P5GL-MX motherboard. I have an IDE
Samsung 40GB hard drive connected to it. The computer takes a lot of
time to strat up. The general timing is as follows
On switching on to completion of memory check - 04 sec
Upto detection of hard drive - 30 sec (The initial BIOS logo keeps
displaying throughout this time)
If booting from CD, it detects the CD and immediately boots up
But if booting from HDD, it says booting from HDD and the screen goes
blank.
When windows was loaded, it remained blank for about a minute before
the Windows XP loading screen appeared.
When the linux boot-loader is being used, it takes 30 sec for the 'GRUB
Stage1.5' message to come. Thereafter another 30 Sec for the GRUB
loading message.
Overall, it takes around 3 min for the computer to be ready for use.
Finally the operation of the computer itself is very slow (even when
Windows has just been
installed). It keeps hanging/freezing. This especially happet/ My
Pictures. The screen just freezes and it takes a minute for the screen
to refresh.
Could anybody help me out? Can it be becoz I use a IDE drive. Would
buying a SATA drive help?
Thanks
Nitin

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