You where very close. But this seems to be the actual solution. I think most people that are suffering from the Random Shut down problem with these lenovo's will recall that they problem have lots of streaming video or lots of windows open some with streaming video when the crashes occur. There is a setting in the advanced settings of the power options (processor power management) that when set to "Passive" will allow you to stream video and any other use and the Laptop will no longer randomly shutdown on you. I had this Random Shut down problem on my lenovo x201 for months. I have made this configuration change and tested this for a month now with 100% success. no more random shutdown problems.
HERE IS THE INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO FIX THIS IN WINDOWS 7 AND 10
Lenovo x201 Random Shutdown Problem (SOLVED)
1. control panel
2. power options
3. choose high performance plan
4. go to "change plan settings"
5. go to "change advanced power settings"
6. scroll down to "processor power management" open it up
7. open up "system cooling policy"
8. change the setting for On Batter and Plugged from active to PASSIVE
9. APPLY the changes and click ok
That has fixed the Radom Shutdown problem for my lenovo x201
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Try this:
- Power Options.
- Create a new Power Plan.
- Choose "Power Saver" as start point.
- Change Advance Power Settings.
- In Processor Power Management, choose 5% as minimum and 80% as max., under battery and pluged in.
- For System Cooling Policy choose Active.
I do a lot of video rendering and 3D rendering with laptops, and use this solution for years with several brands and builts. The processor speed limited to 80% is most effective than 100% most of the times. You can try to use values between 70 and 90.