Solved! Lenovo Y530 suddenly very slow. Continues to be very slow after windows installe.

[frootqloop]

I have been working with a couple of people regarding this issue in this thread:
https://forums.tomsguide.com/thread...-after-windows-reinstall.465119/#post-1943762

I have been asked to make a new thread. I noticed the problem trying to run a dolphin emulator which normally ran wonderfully. It suddenly started to run terribly. The general user experience is bad and sluggish.

As stated in the title I eventually reinstalled windows (while keeping files if that matters). I ran a couple of userbenchmarks and the results say my computer is running poorly.

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/33268076

second run:
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/33268347


I then used coretemp to test if the processor was getting too hot. With only coretemp running the max temp was about 46c and the utilztion stayed below 10% . Under load (running userbenchmark) it went up to about 49c and multiple cores regularly hit 100% utilization. I don't know if this is an acceptable range.

Core temp screenshots:

https://imgur.com/a/fGsjTu6

View: https/imgur.com/a/fGsjTu6

One observation is the frequency never changed. I don't know if this is expected.

I have been told to update the BIOS, the Intel chipset driver and the Intel Management Engine but I'm not certain what the best way to do this is.

Thank you so much for your help

 

[COLGeek]

Is Windows and your main drivers fully up to date now?

If not sure about drivers, start here:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html

 

[frootqloop]

Windows says "You're up to date" and the provided tool says I have 2 driver updates available.

Drivers:

https://imgur.com/a/8swwHKE

View: https/imgur.com/a/8swwHKE


I installed the first one. I figured I should leave the video driver as is.

 

[COLGeek]

Personally, I would have updated both. Lenovo should have an update app to let you update their drivers as well. Do you have this installed?

 

[frootqloop]

Personally, I would have updated both. Lenovo should have an update app to let you update their drivers as well. Do you have this installed?

There was a bios update from lenovo recently and it fixed my problem. Thank you so much!

 

[helpstar]

How do you recommend I update the BIOS, the Intel chipset driver and the Intel Management Engine ?

usually 800MHz is the throttle step if heat is involved or something is odd with drivers or the BIOS

 

[COLGeek]

There was a bios update from lenovo recently and it fixed my problem. Thank you so much!

You are welcome. Glad you are good to go. Well done.