fervent geyser
Model: Legion 7 2021, 5900HX, 3080
Describe the Issue: High idle power draw of ~35w from the battery, even with hybrid mode on and display brightness reduced and refresh rate at 60hz
What have you tried already: Checked that dGPU was properly inactive with Nvidia display as well as through HWinfo, closed all nonmonitoring applications.
When did it start producing the issue: I haven't had much need to run on battery in the past month, but it occured a few times but I chalked it up to forgetting to close MSI Afterburner. Today I explicitly remembered to turn it off, and yet the battery life was still poor, which is when I discovered the power draw through HWInfo. Last time I remember having good battery life was on 27th of September when I was coordinating with friends to try to not get scalped on Ticketmaster. Took at least 3, probably 4 hours for the whole ordeal and still had battery capacity to spare afterwards.
Did you install new drivers or software: No new drivers, no new peripheral software, only some new games, which obviously were not running. However, it seems Windows update installed a mysterious Lenovo system update on the 9th of October, which is bizarre as I should have disabled that following the instructions in the knowledge base. Actually checking right now, Windows update also forced a display driver update. Damn.
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