Acer ASPIRE 7 A715-74G battery life

cedimak

Hi,

I bought the laptop this month and didn't use it so much. I have 256gb SSD, 1T HDD, 16Gb Ram, GTX 1650. The laptop is supposed to last 5-6hours. I know it's basicly lies but my battery life really sucks. When fully charged, it announces me around 2h of battery life. I use High Performance options. When changing to normal, it doesn't change much.

The laptop used by default the GTX 1650. I read that it consumes more power. I changed it to the Intel graphic card and directly saw my autonomy change up to 5hours but it lasted for 5 minutes, until it got 2hours again. How should I improve it?

I also already drained the battery 3x from 100% to low level like 10-15%.

Has someone an explaination? for this very low battery life?

Thanks

MartinJohn00001

@cedimak

 Hi, Sorry to hear about the issue. Kindly try to do the follow steps and post your results.

  Power Drain and BIOS RESET

1) Unplug the AC power adapter.

2) Press and hold the Power button down until the unit goes off. 

3) Search for a pinhole that has a battery symbol next to it on the backside of your laptop, insert a small paperclip in the battery reset pinhole, press and  hold it down for 25 seconds. Then release the paperclip. 

4) When the unit is off completely, press the power to turn on the unit.

5) Immediately keep on tapping the F2 to enter the BIOS.                                

6) In the BIOS, press F9 to reset the BIOS to setup defaults.

7) At the confirmation screen, press Enter for Yes to load the default configuration.

8) Press F10 to save your changes, and restart the system. Select Yes and press ENTER to confirm. The system will restart. 

 Also try uninstalling and re-installing the battery drivers of the unit, follow the steps below: 

1) In the search box on the taskbar, enter device manager, then select Device Manager.

2) Right-click (or press and hold) the name of the battery driver, and select Uninstall.

3) Restart your PC.

4) Windows will attempt to reinstall the driver.

 Try this and post your results. I hope that this is helpful to you! If I have answered your question kindly click YES, thank you