Orbits IT IT Support South Wales and West Midlands

Lenovo System Boost using 100% CPU

I received a call out of hours last night to report that a users machine was constantly running it’s fans at high speed and CPU was maxing out. This had been happening for the last few days. Upon investigating, a process called “LenovoVantage-(LenovoBoostSystemAddin).exe” was consuming 100% of the CPU. After forcing this closed the CPU usage returned to normal and the fans died down. After a restart and a short period the same issue occurred.

I checked for driver/firmware updates etc but it was all up to date.

The fix was to open Lenovo Vantage, go to Device – Performance Boost and in there was a warning that a required device driver was missing. I clicked Fix it and following this update and a reboot the system is behaving perfectly fine. Thanks Lenovo!

Follow us

A quick overview of the topics covered in this article.

Sign-up to our Byte-Sized Newsletter on LinkedIn for monthly updates, tips and tech news
Latest articles