#[L5P 16IRX8] Worsen Battery Life

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sleek moat
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Model:

Legion Pro 5 16IRX8 [13900hx/4070]

Describe the issue:

Worsen battery life

What have you tried already?:

Timeline:
-Clean install of WIN 11 Pro.
-Install of vantage for drivers.
-Install of windows updates
-Uninstall of vantage for the replacement LLT
-Tweaks:
 Winaero Tweaker (Old right click context)
 Christitus's Win Util (Pic tweaks shown below)
 OOSU10 (Pic of tweaks shown below)
 DriverStoreExplorer (Removal of nahimic and elevoc)
 Wushowhide (Hiding elevoc and nahimic)
-DDU OEM Nvidia Driver for the Official Nvidia Driver (536.67)
-The use of NVCleaninstall (Pic of tweaks shown below)
-Reinstall intel chipset drivers
-Restoring Legion Power Plans
-Restoring SRGB Display Profile
-DDU OEM Intel Driver for the Official Intel Driver (31.0.101.4575)

Battery Life Tweaks:
-Win 11 settings set to power efficiency
-Win 11 settings set to battery saver
-Use of #knowledge-base power plans
-Disable turbo boost for cpu
-Disable DGPU
-1920x1200 resolution with 60hz refresh rate
-HDR Off
-G-sync Off
-Keyboard Backlight Off
-Quiet Mode

When did it start producing the issue:

Clean install

Did you install new drivers or software?:

Yes, please read the timeline section

Can you provide images/videos to show us the issue:

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Issue:

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Ask me any questions, I'll provide the best that I can.

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So that I could at least use more than 1 hour of battery use.

runic flume
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Was it same behavior/power draw prior to tweaking it?

sleek moat
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But the first time I own this laptop with no tweaks attached it is exactly the same (Around -30 to -40w).

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The second time I clean install, I reached -15w but I forgot what did I do.

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The third time (this one) it seems to go back to stock.

woven sapphire
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@sleek moat A possible culprit might be the nvcleanstall(or just nvidia silliness), have you properly installed the optimus component? Also did you try using a non tweakned nvcleanstalled driver?

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your power draw lines up with a gpu being "disabled" but still drawing power because it's not properly turned off from the board

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First thing i suggest is try setting nvidia control panel power management at normal/default then see if problem persists(just in case if there's high perf turned on)
Second you shall reinstall with nvcleanstall the gpu driver making sure that optimus is ticked
If that doesn't work either i suggest you try doing a non-tweaked nvidia driver straight from their website also it might be worth doing an EC reset

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If all fails completely DDU the gpu driver and do a normal install

sleek moat
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Checked with hwinfo.

woven sapphire
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Just do what i said, i had the similar issue yes it might be reporting 0W it's turned off software wise but the connection to the motherboard it's not severed, the circuit still draws power

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might be stuck in a d3-cold instead of being powered off

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for refference

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sleek moat
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Will do.

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@woven sapphire LET ME KISS YOU IN THE LIPS!

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Fixes the problem, it may be not back to -15w level but heck it's a lot better than -45w

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Lova you thanks.

woven sapphire
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How far down the list did you go

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Glad it worked out

sleek moat
woven sapphire
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Did you redo the nvcleanstall or did you install the driver as is from nvidia

sleek moat
woven sapphire
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Aight

sleek moat
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After DDU ofc.

sleek moat
woven sapphire
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Will note that just in case people experience this

sleek moat
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Going to save that info to my head.

runic flume
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yeah, i already said that it made no sense that CPU draws 9W, nothin else draws 30+W but it shows 45W

sleek moat
runic flume
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optimus

sleek moat
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I mean I tick optimus.

runic flume
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not sure if it needs to be ticked at all

sleek moat
woven sapphire
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In theory it should be ticked on but i had that fail me in the past sometimes

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No video drivers are just dumb as ghost said i'm not even sure if it's needed anymore on rtx..

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Once some actual decent driver comes out i'll test that again

sleek moat
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Alr, I'm going back to oem intel driver.

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This new one draws more watt like 4w

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Thanks once again.

woven sapphire
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You're welcome

eternal narwhal
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I had once fixed the batteri drain problemo.But tis back again.Dgpu mode gives me more batteri life

mild cosmos
eternal narwhal
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hybrid mode makes the batteri go brrr

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-35w on idle

quick orbit
sleek moat
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Intel newest one draw much more wattage

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-24w ish on video playback.

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-20w for oem driver

quick orbit
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no likr

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in device manager

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what is the version id

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lmao

sleek moat
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Oh

sleek moat
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Just check it

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It’s the same as mine.

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Too lazy to copy and paste rn