Serious Power Option reset of Maximum Processor State every sleep/hib

[nick8545]

Thank you all in advance for any help you can provide. I am new to this forum and I just do not know where else to turn or at least point me to the correct forums to post.

Is there confusion with the power manager thinkvantage support by PC-Doctor and the windows power options?

I just got my new Windows 7 Home Edition Premium 64 bit Lenovo T420 and I cannot enjoy it for the following reason. Under power options, I created a custom balanced profile and set my Processory Power Managment settings to

-100% for Maximum processor state on battery and plugged in.... and

-5% for Minimum processor state on battery and plugged in.

Everytime i put my computer to sleep, hibernate, restart, shutdown, etc the maximum processor state always resets to 5% on on both plugged in/battery,

This means I cannot enjoy my new PC at full 100% processor state ever. Is there a startup program that affects this? I am running NVidia 4200 and Intel chips.

Is there a chance the Lenovo Thinkvantage power manager is interfering?  I have troubleshooted every setting on both to still get the same result.

Is anyone aware of have any input onto this?

Thank you so much in advance. I am really desparate. Lenovo support has not experienced this problem prior when I called prioirty support.

Nick

[James_PCD]

Hello Nick,

I am sorry you are experiencing these issue.  We cannot offer support for products that were not created by our company.  However, I have passed on your issue to those that are more familiar with the manufacturer in hopes that they could provide some kind of information that you may be able to use or pass on to Lenovo support.

[James_PCD]

Hello Rick,

First of all, let me start off by saying that the issue you are experiencing is not related to a PC-Doctor product. 

There are two comments regarding your post.

Using Windows Power Management:

-100% for Maximum processor state on battery and plugged in.... and

-5% for Minimum processor state on battery and plugged in.

Please confirm that this is information is accurate and not a typo.  The reason I state this is that if the min processor state is set for 5%, then that is what you system will be set to when the system returns from sleep, hibernate, shutdown or rebooting.  The processor will scale up as needed.  If you wish to keep the  processor at 100%, change the min setting.

In power manager, make sure that you have high performance set as the default for plugged in and on battery.  I cannot say if Lenovo's power manager is "interfering" with Windows power manager settings as we have not come across the issue in our lab.

I hope this addresses your problem.