Battery removal causes CPU throttling in laptops.
Battery removal causes CPU throttling in laptops.
The latest BIOS is already installed, so I’ll just format it. I’m taking out the laptop battery now.
I should ask have you observed any actual performance degradation as a result of this apparent under clock? I'm curious if it might just be a bug that it is boosting but not reporting it. Did you do any kind of CPU benchmark like Cinebench R20 both with and without battery then noted the score? If the scores are dramatically different then there's a real problem here. If the scores are ~identical then Windows just isn't reporting the CPU clock correctly for some reason when the battery is disconnected but your performance is otherwise unhindered.
Everything seemed to lag and load issues were common. It didn’t work smoothly with Twitch 1080P60 or YouTube 1080P60, often showing only 10 frames per second. Because this started happening recently, I’m considering a fresh clean install of Windows.
If it's empty you could shrink the partition and install Windows in the free space. That can get a little convoluted though and you really want to make sure you don't write over the wrong partition. If you've ever played with GNU/Linux before you could boot something like Ubuntu off a thumb drive. Then you can check if it boosts. In theory if the problem is at the hardware level a different OS entirely shouldn't change the situation. If it boosts again w/out the battery then a Windows reinstall should fix the problem.