Lately i have repaired a pc with an old asrock mainboard and a combination of sata and ide hard disks!
Boot process was painfully slow, about 2 minutes to reach the os bootloader! Have to say that os is booting from ide hdd and the IDE hard disk was single and master on the ribbon connector!
The problem was that the hdd jumper was set on "master with slave present" pair of pins!
After i completly removed the jumper from hdd, boot process was returned to normal again, and i think that slowliness on boot was because the BIOS searching in vain for a slave on the ide ribbon.
I hope this information help you - in case you still have IDE hdd coupled on asrock mainboard!
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