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First, within throttlestop try enabling speed shift, c1e, and power saving, then check after a few idle minutes to see if your cpu speed and voltage go down to 800mhz and 0.7v. They should, and if so you are good to go, power saving is working. If not, boot to bios and reset everything to default settings, then boot to windows again, start throttlestop, then check hwinfo64 after a few minutes. If the cpu is still stuck at full speed, then indeed intel power management is off, even though the bios defaults should have turned it on. So go back into bios yet again and make sure the three items I pointed out in post #2 are enabled, then save and reboot and check hwinfo64 again. If after this you are still stuck at full speed, then your slow mode switch is not only forcing thermal throttling on (which throttlestop is now forcing off) but it is also forcing intel power saving (those three bios items) off. This may not be fixable, but something to try in that case is to use an MSI windows utility for bios management, which maybe can enable power saving itself. It may be called Command Center or be called something different, but it will be listed as a utility on your motherboard support page.