My notebook, an energy machine?

Hi all,

I just bought a new acer aspire 5105 wlmi with an amd turion x2 tl-60 and a ati mobility x1300. My battery is a 4000 mah with 11.1V output (44.4 Watts). I can only do 50 min on full battery but I don't think the problem is the battery. When I checked my notebook (idle mode) in max performance with an energymeter it says 62 Watts. I mean 62 Watts in idle, isn't that to much for a notebook. I always thought that a notebook consumes an avarage of 30-35 Watts and because I have a tl-60 (TDP 35 Watts max on full load) it could be +/- 5 Watts more (but dubbel). When a clockdown the cpu from 2Ghz to 800Mhz it becomes 50 Watts. When I clockdown the GPU it stays 50 Watts on 800mhz and 62 Watt on 2Ghz so the ati card isn't the problem and 50 Watts is also to much.
What else can draw so much power because this is the reason that my battery draines so fast. Could there be a problem with the motherboard?

please help

 

That power consumption is very high. 30W should be enough under light load unless the CPU & GPU keep running at maximum performance (is this your problem?). I always have my notebook's power management set to balanced performance which means the hardware slows down when it is not busy.

What power do you get on the energy meter when you unplug the PSU from the notebook? That could be 5 to 10W.

John

 

When CPU en GPU are clocked down to a minimum the power consumption (notebook in idle) goes 62W --> 51W.
When playing games or on max load is becomes 62W --> 75-80W.
When unplugging the PSU from the notebook it constantly draws 20W
This I think is very strange but when I experimented with another adapter (0W) It also gives the 62W. Maybe the adapter gives a strange value but It still isn't the major problem.
When I choose the balanced option the cpu frequency automatically clocks down from 2Ghz --> 800Mhz. But a +/- 50W power consumption when battery unplugged, 800Mhz cpu and idle mode is still too much I think.

I don't know if for this reason I should sent back my notebook to a repair center because maybe these consumption measurements are normal values.

 

Welcome to the club. This is already been discussed in other threads, we're all experiencing the same poor battery life with the six cell batteries. And an eight cell will only buy you four hours tops.

 

Really? I searched this whole forum for information and the best I could find was a confirmation for that poor battery. But there wasn't any thread about notebook power consumptions. Most people can do allmost 90min with my 44.4W battery so I think my notebook is the problem because it draws to much energy (dubbel then average mobile cpu).

 

these are still very short times for battery life. My 9300 will work for about 3 hours while sufring the net; cpu obviously turned down as well as graphics and a dimmer backlight setting but nothing too low.
Its always useful to ensure that your ePower management settings are correct... other than that i can only suggest that you have a weak/worn battery.