CPU voltage control grayed out

[Galaxic]

Even if I changed the thermal paste and cleaned my laptop I want to undervolt my CPU because it is throttling and the fans are loud. I saw on other forums on other websites that my laptop model is able to be overclocked and tinkered with but I can't enable the voltage control in Throttlestop or XTU. What is causing this? I am willing to do anything to be able to undervolt my CPU. Please help me.

My laptop is Asus ROG G703GI and you can find all my specs in my profile. Thank you!

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz, 2208 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s)

 

[unclewebb]

The BIOS version you are using has locked out CPU voltage control. That is what Locked means in the FIVR window.

Search Google for your laptop model. Some Asus owners have copies of older BIOS versions with unlocked CPU voltage control. ThrottleStop cannot be used until you find and install an unlocked BIOS.

 

[Galaxic]

The BIOS version you are using has locked out CPU voltage control. That is what Locked means in the FIVR window.

Search Google for your laptop model. Some Asus owners have copies of older BIOS versions with unlocked CPU voltage control. ThrottleStop cannot be used until you find and install an unlocked BIOS.

Thank you for the reply! Since I searched alot through Google for older Asus unlocked bios for my specific laptop and didn't find a free download, I found another forum website where they can modify the bios upon requests. My plan is to request a modification for bios 315 (the latest bios) to unlock it. I saw many cases where they unlocked the laptop's bios succesfully. All I gotta do is share a dump of my bios (bios version 315 for my G703GI ).
I will keep you updated.

 

[TillmanR]

Galaxic, this info may help you. I have a different laptop (Alienware m15 R1 w/ Core-i7 8750H CPU & RTX-2060 GPU, Windows 11 Pro), but I encountered pretty much ALL the issues that I found through hours of reading various forum posts from other users who each encountered only a subset of my issues. I had to put them all together to finally get my laptop to the point that I could proceed to undervolt with ThrottleStop.

I have attached a summary of my own personal notes as to what I had to do. I created these notes as I was going through the videos because I work much better from a set of written notes than from a video. Thus, the notes are redundant to the videos (linked in the attached PDF) as far as the steps I took. Be aware that these are notes I took only for myself, so they may be confusing for someone else to follow. All the notes & annotated screenshots are my own, so that in the future, if I need to, I can go back and know exactly what I did. In the notes, “RT” refers to myself and “RTm15” refers to my laptop. If the notes are too confusing, just use the two video-links at the very top of page 1 of the document, as the info in these two videos is what ultimately got me through it. Had I known this from the beginning it would have saved me 10+ hours of searching, reading, and trial & error. Note: You may be able to do everything you need to with ONLY the first video, as many others have, but my laptop required the method described in the second video, using a boot USB and RU.efi shell to actually write values to the correct location in my BIOS.

One more note: Even after unlocking my BIOS I had difficulty getting Virtualization-based Security (VBS) disabled. It seems that many users can do this following the link provided by UncleWebb: (https://beebom.com/how-disable-virtualization-based-security-vbs-windows-11/), but I had to take the additional step of running this command: bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off from an elevated command prompt. Then I was finally able to proceed. I hope this helps, good luck! Roger

 

[Galaxic]

Galaxic, this info may help you. I have a different laptop (Alienware m15 R1 w/ Core-i7 8750H CPU & RTX-2060 GPU, Windows 11 Pro), but I encountered pretty much ALL the issues that I found through hours of reading various forum posts from other users who each encountered only a subset of my issues. I had to put them all together to finally get my laptop to the point that I could proceed to undervolt with ThrottleStop.

I have attached a summary of my own personal notes as to what I had to do. I created these notes as I was going through the videos because I work much better from a set of written notes than from a video. Thus, the notes are redundant to the videos (linked in the attached PDF) as far as the steps I took. Be aware that these are notes I took only for myself, so they may be confusing for someone else to follow. All the notes & annotated screenshots are my own, so that in the future, if I need to, I can go back and know exactly what I did. In the notes, “RT” refers to myself and “RTm15” refers to my laptop. If the notes are too confusing, just use the two video-links at the very top of page 1 of the document, as the info in these two videos is what ultimately got me through it. Had I known this from the beginning it would have saved me 10+ hours of searching, reading, and trial & error. Note: You may be able to do everything you need to with ONLY the first video, as many others have, but my laptop required the method described in the second video, using a boot USB and RU.efi shell to actually write values to the correct location in my BIOS.

One more note: Even after unlocking my BIOS I had difficulty getting Virtualization-based Security (VBS) disabled. It seems that many users can do this following the link provided by UncleWebb: (https://beebom.com/how-disable-virtualization-based-security-vbs-windows-11/), but I had to take the additional step of running this command: bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off from an elevated command prompt. Then I was finally able to proceed. I hope this helps, good luck! Roger

I will look into it and update you, thank you for your hard work!