Mum messed with laptop settings > GPU stuck in extreme power saving | CyberPowerPC UK | Page 1

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 7:30 PM

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Bought a laptop from here for my mum -ASUS TUF F15

I set it up fine but because she knows better she messed some stuff up

1- it asked her if she wants to turn on eco mode and she clicked yes and I can't seem to figure out where to revert this (she keeps mentioning its a windows setting)

2- now when I use armoury crate and swap between windows/silent/performance the gpu still shows as extreme power saving, not sure how to default the profiles as she messed with them

Any advice would be awesome and thanks in advance

clever iron Jan 29, 2023, 7:33 PM

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Control Panel> Hardware and Sound > Power options

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shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 7:36 PM

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We are currently set to balanced

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Thankyou though I'll check through these settings too

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I'll try and see if I can get a screenshot of the eco mode popup

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So we're running a game now, and this is how the armoury crate shows up

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The extreme power saving won't ever seem to switch and I haven't seen the GPU be used for a while

clever iron Jan 29, 2023, 7:41 PM

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set that to Turbo see if that changes anything

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Can't remember if that just does fans

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 7:41 PM

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It's currently unavailable on this pc

clever iron Jan 29, 2023, 7:41 PM

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Try performance

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 7:42 PM

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Same thing

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Stuck to extreme

clever iron Jan 29, 2023, 7:43 PM

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Can you delete armoury crate for now

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May lose some functions but should be able to reinstall it afterwards

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 7:44 PM

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I'll give it a shot

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Is there a built in uninstaller

clever iron Jan 29, 2023, 7:45 PM

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Close the program fully, then type into windows search : add or remove programs

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 7:48 PM

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Uninstalled it just now

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Laptop is rebooting

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Okay it's all rebooted and armoury is uninstalled

clever iron Jan 29, 2023, 7:57 PM

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Try and see if program works now without it being in extreme power mode

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should be using it properly now

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 7:58 PM

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How can I check to see what mode its using without armoury? Just check task manager

clever iron Jan 29, 2023, 7:59 PM

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Try reinstalling Armoury crate again

vale matrixBOT Jan 29, 2023, 7:59 PM

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ASUS Armoury Crate

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 7:59 PM

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Thankyou

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Qlso

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Also*

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This may be worth noting what I just found

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There is a process called XtuService running

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clever iron Jan 29, 2023, 8:02 PM

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Intel extreme tuning, shouldn't really have that

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 8:02 PM

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Yeah mum really messed this laptop up

clever iron Jan 29, 2023, 8:02 PM

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Type into windows search

Intel extreme tuning

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see if you have it

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 8:03 PM

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Intel graphics command centre is what shows up

clever iron Jan 29, 2023, 8:03 PM

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Just leave it, should be fine

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Worst comes to the worst, you can just reinstall windows

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 8:04 PM

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Yup, I'll reinstall armoury now

Was just curious as it's at 50% cpu usage on a home screen with nothing running

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But I'll go restart and redownload ect so I'll @ you if things don't fix, thankyou so far though

clever iron Jan 29, 2023, 8:06 PM

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ASUS Laptops have some strange germlins sometimes

uneven ether Jan 29, 2023, 8:07 PM

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Just seen on a Reddit post the same issue Check Display Adapters in device manager see if the GPU is disabled

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 8:08 PM

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You're onto something

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When I checked this earlier there was no gpu

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Now there is

clever iron Jan 29, 2023, 8:08 PM

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Armoury crate disabled the GPU oh dear

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 8:09 PM

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Armoury crate...

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More like mum

uneven ether Jan 29, 2023, 8:09 PM

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shy furnace Now there is

Is it enabled in device manager?

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 8:09 PM

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It is now yes

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So

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Do I really need armoury crate

uneven ether Jan 29, 2023, 8:09 PM

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Yeah I would keep it I use it on my laptop and it helps alot

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 8:10 PM

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Is it possible to add a password to use it kek

uneven ether Jan 29, 2023, 8:10 PM

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Just gotta figure out why it disabled your GPU? thinkloading

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 8:10 PM

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My mum's exact words were

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Something popped up saying 'eco mode' so I pressed yes. Now it turns off every 30 mins

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It also had norton mcafee and windows defender running

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Using 80% CPU

uneven ether Jan 29, 2023, 8:11 PM

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Oh my

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 8:11 PM

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I never installed any of them

uneven ether Jan 29, 2023, 8:11 PM

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Have you uninstalled Norton and Mcafee

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 8:11 PM

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Working on it

uneven ether Jan 29, 2023, 8:11 PM

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🤣

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 8:11 PM

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She also downloaded studio drivers

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On nvidia

uneven ether Jan 29, 2023, 8:12 PM

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Dear God

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 8:12 PM

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Yeah

uneven ether Jan 29, 2023, 8:12 PM

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Never let her touch your laptop again lol

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 8:12 PM

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It's here

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Hers

uneven ether Jan 29, 2023, 8:12 PM

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Oh welp

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 8:12 PM

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I got a gaming pc from this company

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She wanted to play phasmophobia lol

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But turned it into a brick

uneven ether Jan 29, 2023, 8:13 PM

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Phasmophobia slide show edition

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 8:13 PM

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^

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Since you're smart one more question

uneven ether Jan 29, 2023, 8:13 PM

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shy furnace Since you're smart one more question

Shoot

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 8:13 PM

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Do you see anything here I can reduce the idle cpu usage with

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uneven ether Jan 29, 2023, 8:14 PM

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shy furnace Do you see anything here I can reduce the idle cpu usage with

Turn off unwanted startup apps and close anything you're not using is all I can recommend

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Uninstalling norton and mcaffee would be good too

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 8:14 PM

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I'll do that, any idea what the green leaf and yellow pause are indicating

uneven ether Jan 29, 2023, 8:14 PM

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Green leaf = power saving mode for that app

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Yellow pause I believe it just paused the app in the background to save power usage

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or something like that

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if u hover over it it will say

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 8:16 PM

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Thankyou both of yall are lifesavers

I've been sat here 3 hours trying to remove the infinite amount of crap she's filled here

Very last question kekw

Power plan for a mum playing games
Balanced / performance?

Armoury crate
Should I leave it windows/silent/performance

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Because those are the 2 things she messes with most so ima set em and tell her never to open them again

uneven ether Jan 29, 2023, 8:17 PM

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Power Plan = Performance
Armoury crate = Performance

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Those are the best for games

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 8:18 PM

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Greatly appreciated man I'd send you a takeout if I could

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@clever iron thankyou also man

Both of yall ended 4 hours of mum nagging in my ear pepehypers kek

runic laurel Jan 29, 2023, 8:34 PM

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throw out mcafee

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 8:35 PM

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@runic laurel have done, still at 56% usage idle

This normal for laptops?

runic laurel Jan 29, 2023, 8:36 PM

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which bit is that?

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 8:37 PM

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Just in general with nothing running it's about 55/60% cpu usage

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I'm used to playing pc and idle mines at about 10% usage

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Wait ignoreme

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I just realised I'm reading the wrong one

runic laurel Jan 29, 2023, 8:42 PM

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oh ok yeah should be lower, have u check if the windows defender on schedule run?

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 8:42 PM

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It's been a long day

runic laurel Jan 29, 2023, 8:42 PM

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oh

shy furnace Jan 29, 2023, 8:43 PM

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Sorry
However I did take your advice and remove norton/mcafee and can already tell difference

weary spear Jan 30, 2023, 12:08 AM

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Norton is good/ McAfee meh but you don't need them as you already have the Windows Defender

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Using memory and stuff for nothing

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If you really want to keep everything steady and stuff, can keep everything on balance so that won't push your temperature of the roof

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Power option - Balance
Armory Crate - Balance

clever iron Jan 30, 2023, 12:10 AM

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weary spear If you really want to keep everything steady and stuff, can keep everything on b...

Balanced does the same as High performance,

weary spear Jan 30, 2023, 12:10 AM

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clever iron Balanced does the same as High performance,

For my Razer nope, maybe Asus are different?

clever iron Jan 30, 2023, 12:11 AM

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Razer have their own wacky power management

weary spear Jan 30, 2023, 12:11 AM

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I always keep everything on balance anyway kek even my PC is on balance

clever iron Jan 30, 2023, 12:11 AM

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Because on PC is does the same as High performance

weary spear Jan 30, 2023, 12:12 AM

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The only thing I disable is the hibernation

shy furnace Jan 30, 2023, 3:57 AM

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Interesting

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I just set them to high performance

verbal sparrow Feb 2, 2023, 8:23 PM

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How much ram do you have?

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As that is RAM utilisation

shy furnace Feb 3, 2023, 5:11 AM

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I'm not sure lol she's at home now

verbal sparrow Feb 3, 2023, 12:41 PM

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So for example windows will always use x amount of ram, so say if windows used 4GB and you have 8 that is why you would see 50% utilisation for example.

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