Using device manager, you can right click on the fingerprint entry, and then under power management(?) make sure to say that Windows can power off the device, and that it is not permitted to wake the system from sleep. That should allow Windows to turn it off when in standby.
Just test it out, and see if it fixes the problem.
Well yes, very hard not to in Windows. Always at least 60+ things running in the background. I don’t think Google Drive/Firefox and Word at the same time is over the top however.
Not doing 4k transcoding with some Lightroom batch processing in the background.
I have been around PCs since the early 90’s so I used to running a tight ship.
Just did a timed 5 minute usage. 69% dropped to 66%. Max wattage hit was 10.5W, usual was 3.5W. Running Firefox (4 tabs, only extensions are uBlock/Disconnect and NoScript) and Word. Screen at 50% brightness. 33% Ram usage. no GPU to speak off. Just not touching it using 5-10% CPU. Nothing unusual in Task manager either. Just usual backgrounds.
Each time when Windows is first started, it has a process to load up additional data into RAM as cache (and does consume additional power…and not really idling). This does take short while to settle down (10-15 minutes):
When I need longer runtime, I tend to set my PL1 and PL2 to 7W. It’s fast enough for video / media consumption and emailing. Maybe you can tweak those values to your needs.
i.e. Energy consumption is not clockspeed driven…so slower clockspeed doesn’t necessarily mean low energy consumption.
I’ll do some more testing tomorrow. I’ll do a fresh boot. Let it settle then open Youtube and HWMonitor and let a 1080p video run and time it for say 30 mins and see how much we have left just doing that. My battery is set to only max charge to 80% so am aware I’m leaving some battery time on the table. Battery wear is at 1%.
I’m not a 300 tabs open person, I don’t get that usage behaviour. 4 to 5 tabs tops.
Battery reports are all fine, it’s all basic stuff here, as I’m a PC support guy. Checked the power config in Control panel etc. etc. Remember…it’s now really under-clocked. No more 4GHz boost on this laptop. 50% screen brightness etc. etc. I run a tight ship, I have all the auto starts switched off for stuff I don’t need. I switch off services I don’t use etc. etc.
Nothing appears out of the ordinary just the battery drops 1% every 60-90 seconds. I’m going to do the YouTube for 30 mins test in a bit. Once it reaches the locked 80% on charge.
Set at 80% battery. Windows 11. 5 minutes after boot, Firefox opened and a single 1080p Youtube video was set to play. Power plug pulled and timer set for 30 minutes. HWMonitor was running too for some stats. Screen brightness was 50%
In 30 mins we went from 80% to 71%. Max CPU 2225MHz Min CPU 1298MHz
Max Wattage - 9.8W Min Wattage - 3.6W Max GPU - 12.9% Max CPU - 35%
I then opened up 4 more tabs, just static webpages and MS Word, ran the video again for 30 mins.
In 30 mins we went from 70% to 63%. Usage figures were pretty similar, though one core did boost to over 4GHz at one point which was odd.