Laptop freezes when connecting Power Adapter

Hi guys, I have an i7 Y560 Lenovo Everytime I connect my power adapter to the laptop the laptop just freezes. Alternatively if I boot up with the power cord attached the windows boots, but the login page never appears, I just get a black screen. I have to say that the laptop works perfectly fine on battery. My CPU and GPU temperatures are reported to be around 60C and 55C respectively. I have tried a different power adapter, no luck, so that power adapter is working. Another thing to note, when switched off, the battery is charging normally. I have opened my laptop and also cleaned it, and I'm in the process of replacing my DC jack just in case its shorting. Any other suggestions of what could be causing this ?  Specs:Lenovo Y560i7 720QM Processor4x2GB RAM - 8GB512GB SSD DriveWindows 7 ProfessionalLaptop Age: 2yrs 5 months

After some searching i found out what was preventing me from booting successfully
This thread here has the solution
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-Z-and-P-series/ideapad-y560-radeon-5730-black-screen-need-...
, apparently there are some problems with the power options/energy management, what ever.The computer would open and work fine (with the driver you gave me) if I open it running solely on the battery and not connected by the power cord. Everything seems normal
Graphically utilized softwares would run normally,the screen runs at native resolution etc.
However as soon as I plug in the power cord it would freeze (or perhaps refresh at less than 1Hz and then gradually completely freezes if that makes sense)
After looking at the instructions in that thread:-
i had to adjust the energy settings in windows. the mininmal performance is set to 100 percent for running with cable. if you set it to 5% like running on battery, it isnt crashing. perhaps this could be a solution to other having the black screen after windows logo.
here's what to do:
boot in safe mode and adjust your energy settings for running with ac adapter. set the minimal performance to 5%"
so I got kinda confused here i assume he is talking about the processor power management settings
So running normally i set the minimum processor state to 5% for 'Plugged in' (All inside the high performance preset which i assume will be loaded at startup)I restarted with the powercord on, still got a black screen.
So off to safemode,
"adjust your energy settings for running with ac adapter. set the minimal performance to 5%"
from what I can interpret, it seems like there's a specific option inside the minimum processor state ( on battery and plugged in)
however there is only one option (percentage) I think it's global for both.
It is set to 5%.
I am just one step away....

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