G750 Processor stuck at .77Ghz when unplugged [solved w/new bios]

[Musicmatters]

Experienced an unscheduled and unexpected shutdown today, after which Windows did yet another update Ever since then, the CPU has been stuck at .77GHz.

I've rebooted, shutdown, pulled the battery, and changed the power option to both high performance and the ASUS power gear settings to no avail.

Anyone know a solution to this problem?

TIA,

Craig

EDIT by cl-Albert: 1. Since the G750JW 208 bios was released first to solve this, there is also an alternate thread New 208 JX and 205 JH BIOS on support.asus.com for the G750JX and G750JH if anybody is interested.

2. Also, after you update the bios, if you have Power4Gear installed, don't forget to change the Power4Gear setting as mentioned by hmscott in this thread CPU still at .80 [solved]

3. Although it doesn't make a lot of sense, 1 member reported " the stress from folding did the trick" if anybody needs to try this: Funny thing happened with my core being stuck at .77 GhZ on battery

[ttrevorbacon]

Thank you hmscott and Pierre990429 that seemed to do the trick. I tried everything but that is what fixed it for me... now if I can figure out why my comp goes to sleep after only two minutes when its plugged in I think I will be all set to go. Any way thank both of you i exausted all of the other options mentioned and even though Im glad to have updated my bios im glad to have this figure out. Thank you!

[hmscott]

ttrevorbacon wrote:
..now if I can figure out why my comp goes to sleep after only two minutes when its plugged in...

Cool 🙂

To fix the sleep/screen dim/screen off after a delay, go back to the power plan you have selected and click "Change Plan Settings" on the right, and you get a dialog with the dim display/off display/sleep delay timing under battery and AC 🙂

Also, check your desktop personalization for screensaver settings in your current theme.

It looks like for some, uninstalling Power4Gear Hybrid gets rid of the strange dimming and sleep behavior, and when reinstalling Power4Gear Hybrid again it keeps working.

[Karl78]

With new bios version (208, g750jx) no problem. The only thing to do (at least with powe4gear on), is to change the cpu performance in advanced settings from 5% to 100% and that's it.

[hmscott]

Karl78 wrote:
With new bios version (208, g750jx) no problem. The only thing to do (at least with powe4gear on), is to change the cpu performance in advanced settings from 5% to 100% and that's it.

Which Power4Gear plan, Power Saving or High Performance?

If you switch to battery from AC, the plan automatically switches to Power Saving, cutting your CPU back down to .79ghz, even at 100%-100%.

On AC running at 100%-100% isn't the best use of your cooling - it defeats the on demand CPU tuning. Keeping the processor down near idle at idle times keeps things cool, draws less power, if the plan is working correct 0%-100% is good for all except benchmarking extreme performance - which is most of the time, 0%-100% is best.

Right now the Balanced Power Plan at 0-100% works best on battery and AC, and you can uninstall Power4Gear without losing any functionality - I will try Power4Gear Hybrid again when a new version comes out.

[Karl78]

Ok, I'll try without power4gear. Anyway, in battery mode with Power4gear in high performance and cpu performance to 100%, the frequency of cpu is the same as in AC (note that in AC and high performance with power4gear, the cpu performance is set to default at 100%). Otherwise in power saving mode with cpu minimum on 100%, the cpu stuck at about 1.46GHz

[AvX-lood]

PROBLEM.. Installed 208 on my g750JW using the instuctions linked earlier.. It installed smoothly and verified and power of itself.. Now everytime it starts it goes straight into bios again,, it doesnt boot windows and i cant do anything in boot order.. doesnt acces windows anymore? it says 208 in bios.

[hmscott]

AvX-lood wrote:
PROBLEM.. Installed 208 on my g750JW using the instuctions linked earlier.. It installed smoothly and verified and power of itself.. Now everytime it starts it goes straight into bios again,, it doesnt boot windows and i cant do anything in boot order.. doesnt acces windows anymore? it says 208 in bios.

Make sure you didn't change any of the booting/secure/csm settings along the way - resetting to defaults should fix that.

Try setting Default Settings in BIOS, Save, and it will restart.

After doing that, you should boot up ok again..

If not check to see if you see the disks in the BIOS, check the boot options, make sure your disk(s) show up there too.

Then, after you have pulled the disk(s) and backed them up - saving all your personal data - do a Recovery partition refresh of Windows. If that doesn't fix it, you can do a complete restore.

Check out the G750JW manual page 83 for Windows Refresh and page 84 for Windows Reset, or you can use the Recovery Partition System Image restore on page 85/86 of the manual.

http://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/ASUS_ROG_G750JW/#support_Download

[dboris]

My laptop is all updated (8.1, bios, graphic card), and even in high performance mode, even by putting "minimum CPU state = 100%", the CPU is stuck at 800mhz EVERYTIME I go on the Battlefield 4 windows.
The worst thing is that it just happenned a few days ago and everything was fine before.
I tried to unistall power4gear, to reinstall the graphic drivers (random try), but still stuck at 800mhz on games x))!

If someones have any idea..

[hmscott]

dboris wrote:
My laptop is all updated (8.1, bios, graphic card), and even in high performance mode, even by putting "minimum CPU state = 100%", the CPU is stuck at 800mhz EVERYTIME I go on the Battlefield 4 windows.
The worst thing is that it just happenned a few days ago and everything was fine before.
I tried to unistall power4gear, to reinstall the graphic drivers (random try), but still stuck at 800mhz on games x))!
If someones have any idea..

Did you set the active power plan to under 100% Max? That turns off turbo...

[dboris]

No, everything is at 100 and works well with some other games and the proc is at 3.3ghz on internet and everything else, but as soon as I switch to the BF4 windows, it goes to 800mhz :eek:

edit: it does the same **** on Skyrim too 😞

Edit by cl-Albert: For those interested in finding out what happened for dboris' hopefully uncommon issue, check this thread http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?41680-Stuck-to-800mhz-once-I-launch-a-game-solved!&country=...