SOLUTION FOUND When the charge is above the BIOS-set maximum, whether due to the battery life saver BIOS setting or due to manually setting the maximum lower than the current charge, the EC charge controller will set the charging state to DISCHARGE, which acts exactly as if you’d physically unplug…

A summary of what’s going on and the solutions (thank you @James3 , @wojciech_migas , and @Obasav ): When the charge is above the BIOS-set maximum, whether due to the battery life saver BIOS setting or due to manually setting the maximum lower than the current charge, the EC charge controller will set…

GPU power drops when over BIOS-set maximum charge

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Nathaniel_Graham May 24, 2025, 5:37am 3

That’s a great idea, I forgot the BIOS issue tracker was on github, thanks for the reminder!

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GPU power drops when over BIOS-set maximum charge

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