Hello! My girlfriend’s HP laptop running kubuntu 24.04 has this problem: when it’s turned off (either from the GUI or poweroff) it discharges overnight, from 100% to 0% in a few days.

I searched the web to look for fixes:

  • wake on lan is disabled in the BIOS
  • USB ports have no settings in the bios, but there’s nothing connected to them anyway
  • the system is actually powered off, not sleeping (at least if poweroff actually works)
  • everything, firmware included, is up to date

She doesn’t remember having this problem from the beginning, but cannot tell when this started occurring

Did any of you ever encounter this problem? I don’t know what else to do, and it’s quite annoying.

Thank you for your time!

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It may be exactly this, noticed by Linus Tech Tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHKKcd3sx2c

If their solutions don’t work, try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JoFi5yXzZk

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Maybe Intel AMT running? I’m not sure it can be disabled though.

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Even if it was it shouldn’t drain the battery that fast.

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How long does the battery last while powered on?

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As it should be, the battery life while in use it’s even better than my own pc

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Same with my Lenovo, not in few days tho but maybe in week or a two.

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Laptops now use the internal main battery as a replacement of the cmos rs2032 battery (in a lot of em at least).

Not that such a low draw cause this level of drain. Maybe the battery is going out as well.

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The CMOS battery has maybe 100mA and lasts 5 years. A laptop battery has at least 400x the capacity, it would not drain in a few days.

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I checked and yes, there’s no cmos battery in it. Do you think this may have something to do with it?

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Hard to say. But it’s something to consider. Lots of other worthwhile suggestions I see too. Hopefully it’s not a combination of things.

Let us know how it goes!

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