HP Z440 Slow/Sluggish performance issues - Update

[OSIRIS777]

This is an update post relating to my previous post dated 10/31/2020.  After installing the Bios update version M60 V02.56, the Bios Setup Power-on password got clobbered and no longer worked.  I had to login to Bios Setup with the Administrator password and luckily the admin. password worked ok... It is not clear to me why during the Bios Update the power-on password got clobbered.   After each Bios Update, do we need to go into Bios Setup and click on "Apply Factory Defaults and Exit" or is this not necessary?  I ended up doing this as well as clearing the TPM, keys and whatever else I can clear in the Bios Setup.  A new password for the Power-On password also needed to be set.  

in Bios Setup ===> Advanced Tab ====> Boot Options ===> Fast Boot is greyed out and cannot be set.  Why?

in Bios Setup ===> Advanced Tab ====> Boot Options ===> UEFI Boot Options  is enabled by default.  The Legacy Boot is also enabled.  If one is enabled by default, the other should be disabled.  This is not a big deal but if you don't set this correctly, it confuses the Windows 10 installations as well as Linux installations.  

It looks like, several features/parameters in Bios Setup are also omitted in this version of the bios.  Problems? Bugs? It is not clear why they were taken out.  

Overall, this is a huge improvement over Bios version 02.54.

It takes about 12 seconds from pressing the power button to Bios Setup prompt.

It takes about 35 seconds from the Bios Password prompt to the Windows login Screen.

It would be nice to see an update to the "Chipset Firmware " also...