Windows 10 Acer Nitro Spin 5 i5-8250U CPU has been stuck at 0.40 GHZ for weeks, with barely any heat from the system.

[HemanthKumar25]

My 3 year old Acer Nitro Spin 5 has been massively stuttering recently since the latest 21H1 July Update and I found out that my CPU has been stuck at 0.40GHZ at cold startup. Since then I clean installed win 10 and made sure all drivers were upto date. But the problem persists. The issue resolves itself when the laptop wakes back from sleep for a few minutes but then goes back down to 0.40GHz after a while. Even used intel XTU to troubleshoot but have found no answers. I checked the fans and there seems to be no issue there, and the heatsink seems to be working fine. Any ideas on what might b

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