Question Why am I getting BD-PROCHOT??

Jan 23, 2025
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I have a zbook studio g8 with i7-11850h and rtx 3070 max-q. Recently when playing games my laptop has been throttling to base clock speed showing a red 'power' sign, and in the limits the BD-PROCHOT is the reason why.

This is happening even though my CPU temps never exceed mid 80's and GPU temps never exceed low 70's. It is really decreasing my performance and has been annoying me for ages, and I cannot uncheck the BD-PROCHOT box as it is greyed out. I'm not sure but recently I reset my laptop and it got updated to windows 24h2 so maybe it could be linked but I'm not entirely sure if that's the reason why.

This laptop is only 4 months old so I doubt thermal paste needs to be replaced. I can attach a log file if needed of when it is under load.
 
Full laptop specs and OS information?

What games, source?

Look in Reliability History/Monitor and Event Viewer for any error codes, warnings, or even informational events being captured just before or at the times that the throttling occurs.

Look in Windows Update History for any failed or problem updates.