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    How to prevent severe battery drain while powered off?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Lundon44, Apr 2, 2013.

  1. Lundon44

    Lundon44 Notebook Consultant

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    I have the R3 and have noticed that I can charge my battery full, power off (not standby or sleep) the laptop and within days the battery is fully dead. With no additional use of the laptop of course. I have a spare battery and it does the same thing on the other one.

    Is this normal? I feel like a 100% battery will potentially die to 0% in less than a week, maybe even a few days.

    Can anyone recommend anything I can do to prevent this (if this is infact not normal)? I read someone having a setting for the USB to always be on in the BIOS can cause this though I'm not this option exists in the BIOS.

    Help anyone?
     
    Lundon44, Apr 2, 2013
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  2. bigtonyman

    bigtonyman Desktop Powa!!!

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    That's a strange problem. I've left mine out in my car in the alaskan cold for hours, and such and still don't have battery drain like that. Could be a problem with the motherboard maybe? That is the only thing that comes to mind.
     
    bigtonyman, Apr 2, 2013
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