How to make Power Plan to stay on High Performance?

[Astralv]

I am setting Power Plan to High Performance through "Change Advanced Power Options". When I click on that link, it usually set to Balanced (active). I change it to High Performance. The "Apply" button stays grayed out unless I go and change other setting. So I would change Monitor to 19 minutes. Hit Apply, and Ok. Come back- it is back to Balanced, not High Performance. Why? Is there a way to make it stay at High Performance? Thank you.

 

[Astralv]

Hey there. Still mystery- is your plan staying High Performance if you change it, close it and then reopen it, or does it go back to Balanced? Thank you.

 

[Colif]

Did you install Samsung Magician on your m.2 drive? Does it still have OS Optimisations tab? I seem to recall some of its profiles set it to run power settings and maybe over riding your choices. Maximum performance settings should set PC to high performance for instance.

Have you updated PC in sig to match what you have now? I don't see the m.2 listed? unless I am getting you mixed up with someone else (its possible).

 

[Astralv]

Did you install Samsung Magician on your m.2 drive? Does it still have OS Optimisations tab? I seem to recall some of its profiles set it to run power settings and maybe over riding your choices. Maximum performance settings should set PC to high performance for instance.

Have you updated PC in sig to match what you have now? I don't see the m.2 listed? unless I am getting you mixed up with someone else (its possible).

I did not install magician. Do I have to install it for Samsung drives to work correctly? I thought it was only for back up and transfer of files.

I reinstalled NVME driver that caused latency. I don't think I have Fan Expert or AI Suit installed. I also don't see any power settings in BIOS. But my latencyMon says I have huge latency not suitable for audio due to Network adopter, CPU throttling and Direct X and NVidia drivers.

I have 3 computers so I cant update the sig yet. I probably should update it to the problematic new build. But yes, I have M.2 drive. And it is not running in PCIE or SATA mode- it is in Auto- I don't know what that do. But all my SATA ports are working, not disabled.

 

[Colif]

Are you on build 1703 of Win 10? (right click start, choose run..., type winver and press enter). The location of the power menu has changed in latest build.

I only ask as how are you getting to power? If I search for Change Advanced Power Options in cortana it loads Bing which isn't overly useful
You can however right click start button and choose Power Options - this opens the Power & Sleep settings menu now instead of taking you direct to the control panel window
to reach control panel, you have to choose Additional power settings off the settings page

I swapped my plan to High Performance and back again and PC lets me save them.

reason yours isn't could be Samsung as above or perhaps motherboard drivers/BIOS upgrade.

no, don't need Magician to use drive - its drive management, its not the program you use to backup contents - http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/consumer/magician.html

 

[Astralv]

Are you on build 1703 of Win 10? (right click start, choose run..., type winver and press enter). The location of the power menu has changed in latest build.

I only ask as how are you getting to power? If I search for Change Advanced Power Options in cortana it loads Bing which isn't overly useful
You can however right click start button and choose Power Options - this opens the Power & Sleep settings menu now instead of taking you direct to the control panel window
to reach control panel, you have to choose Additional power settings off the settings page

I swapped my plan to High Performance and back again and PC lets me save them.

reason yours isn't could be Samsung as above or perhaps motherboard drivers/BIOS upgrade.

no, don't need Magician to use drive - its drive management, its not the program you use to backup contents - http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/consumer/magician.html

Thank you for your reply. It does not matter how I get to the power management, but I get to the part where I select High Performance, it changes minimum CPU state to 100%, I click ok, and then when I open it again, it says, "Balanced". I do not have any Samsung software installed. I dont have AI Suite- Asus power management software. May be NVidia sneak something in their installation- how would I check that? I can not think of anything that would control my power. In BIOS, I have XMP profile enabled for Memory. When selecting XMP profile, it asks if I want to increase CPU frequency or something. If I say Yes, it increases it to like 4.5. If I say No, it leaves CPU to run at 4.2, but increases Memory to 3000Mhz. But I dont think this would affect Power settings, would it?

 

[Colif]

XMP settings shouldn't effect windows

You can try a clean boot and see if that makes any difference: https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/929135/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows
if it did, it would point at one of your start up programs being the cause.

try running the power settings troubleshooter - its in settings/update & security/troubleshoot
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-performance/windows-10-power-settings-default-back-to-screen/5ef6edae-60f1-48b5-adfe-5c6ae3862166

 

[Astralv]

Thank you for the links. I looked in to Clean Boot. I really do not have anything in Startup that would cause problems. I did not want to stop any services because I had issue on my old computer that Task Scheduler would not run and I could not do any back ups because some service would not start.

The Power options troubleshooter only wants to enable sleep- it good for nothing else. And my settings still changing to Balanced from High Performance. It got to be somewhere in BIOS because I have nothing that would control it in Windows. No power management applications. The reason I nee dit to be on High is because of Latency for audio and process interruption that causes audio dropouts. The huge problem causing latency is my network ndis.sys (Network Driver Interface Specification) and Direct X driver. I am off to Networking and Graphics sections to post there. Thank you.

 

[Astralv]

Should I install Magician? I have 4 Samsung SSDs. I don't want to add anything that running on a background. Thank you.

 

[Colif]

You could install magician, see if it has OS Optimisation under System management, and set PC to high performance and see if it over rides whatever keeps changing your power settings.

It doesn't need to be running all the time to achieve this. I only run it sometimes now to look at ssd health or answer questions on here.

 

[Astralv]

Ok, I solved it. You supposed to create new power plan and then it would stay. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-desktop/customized-power-options-keeps-changing-back-to/9e7f2217-1698-4314-b984-e6271c484771