Windows 10 randomly changing power plan

[MarcusX]

This is infuriating. For no reason, upon reboot or just using the PC normally, windows changes the power plan from Balanced to High Performance for no reason at all.

It's infuriating and I have no idea what's doing it.

Does anyone have any ideas or know where to look to find out?

It means my cores run at full speed generating unnecessary heat when idling or doing light web browsing etc.

I want them to downclock to 1200 Mhz with speed step and Windows is preventing this. Anyone else have a similar problem?

 

[Glanza]

Specs?

 

[darket]

You probably have some motherboard or overclocking software installed overriding the windows power schemes such as Asus A.I suit , Msi dragon center etc etc

 

[MarcusX]

Specs?

Motherboard:
CPU Type HexaCore Intel Core i7-3970X Extreme Edition, 3500 MHz
Motherboard Name Asus Rampage IV Extreme (1 PCI-E x1, 5 PCI-E x16, 8 DDR3 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN) Motherboard Chipset Intel Patsburg X79, Intel Sandy Bridge-E
System Memory 32706 MB BIOS Type AMI (05/14/2014)

Display:
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (4095 MB) Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (4095 MB) Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (4095 MB) Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (4095 MB)
Monitor Asus VS248 [24" LCD] (G8LMQS031114)
Monitor BenQ XL2420T (Digital) [24" LCD] (C8C00043SL0)

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter High Definition Audio
Controller [10DE-10F0] [NoDB] Audio Adapter Realtek ALC899 @ Intel Patsburg PCH - High Definition Audio
Controller Storage: IDE Controller Standard SATA AHCI Controller Storage Controller Asmedia 106x SATA Controller Storage Controller Asmedia 106x SATA Controller Storage Controller Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller Disk Drive Corsair Neutron GTX SS (223 GB) Disk Drive WDC WD1000DHTZ-04N21V0 (1000 GB, 10000 RPM, SATA-III)
Disk Drive WDC WD1000DHTZ-04N21V0 (1000 GB, 10000 RPM, SATA-III)
Disk Drive WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0 (2000 GB, SATA-III)
Optical Drive TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-222BB SCSI CdRom Device
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Updated - fixed the problem (sort of) with a workaround by DELETING the High Performance power setting using elevated command prompt and powercfg.

I don't know who or what was changing it. I don't have AI Suite installed.

 

[queeg]

if you just done the creator update it could be that it changed mine to performance and I have seen someone else on here warning of that happening too

 

[Rroff]

I've found that older versions of HD Tune (don't think they work on 10 though) and some benchmarks will change the power plan of their own volition (or Windows somehow does it in conjunction with that software) which is kind of annoying.

 

[MarcusX]

No idea what was causing it. The only to fix it for me was to delete all other plans than balanced. Now windows can't change it to anything else