g50vt-1a quick start led never turns off

After 10-12 hours 10% of the battery is gone. Even when I do a shutdown the one blue LED never turns off.

I do not have the quick start software installed either.

Is there a fix to this? It is quite annoying.

 

No known way yet, short of a little work with a soldering iron. It is only supposed to drain about 5% per day.

 

Don't waste your time uninstalling Express Gate either. The LED still won't turn off.

 

Why the hell would they design a notebook that forces it to waste power by keeping a light on all the time?

Someone at asus was smoking crack. So if I want to charge my notebook and bring it somewhere my best bet is to pull the battery if it will be sitting for a few days?

this notebook is already a battery eating beast.

 

I'm sorry but since it's a LED, I don't think it will drain 5% of battery per day. It may annoy someone, ASUS should have deployed some way to turn off it completely (in BIOS for example?).

 

I find after about 12 hours on my old laptop the battery is at 98 % if i unplugged it for the 12 and then plugged it in before booting up. Betteries (especially older ones) lose charge over time.

I dunno how Li-ION is but the old NiMH chemistry loses 5% a day without any use. Single LED shouldnt take much at all but there could be other parasitic draw in the laptops design.

 

I know that battery lose charge over time. But I what I said is the LED's power consumption.

 

It's not just an LED's power consumption. It is also a button that is activated by touching it that always needs to be powered as well which means other things are on as well.

 

Unless its a touchh sensitive button ( i dont get myne till tomorrow) then Under conventional design your actually wrong on that. The button itself does not need any power. When pushing the button you close a circuit allowing power to pass through the circuit. Its is then it is powered. Its typically like a light switch, power only runs though the switch if it is on. In the off (open) position it is preventing the flow off current in a non resistance fashion.

 

It is a touch-sensitive button that works using capacitance, like a trackpad or iTouch screen. It doesn't work with pressure, I tried poking it with a pen to check. So that would account for the power drain. The Expressgate button on other Asus models are normal mechanical buttons, but I guess they gotta have the e-bling for the G series.

 

The only way I see to disable it is either via a bios mod (maybe ask Thalanix for that) or via ACPI.

 

Or you could pop the battery out.

 

I guess for travel I'll just pop the battery out of it. It's obviously not a notebook I use for work when away from home much, so it's not that big of an inconvenience.

I'm getting a net book in the future and I'll never worry about the silly blue light

 

That LED has max 20mA drain, that's worst cases old manufactured LED directly connected to the battery. The probable case is that LED consumes about 2-3mA....The battery has 5-7Ah ...that's 5000 / 0.002 = 2500hrs ...40 days to suck your battery out...are you gonna leave your laptop idle for so long ?

 

Can't argue with your math, but the numbers are wrong somewhere: the LED in my G50Vt-A2 drained the battery to zero in 8 days. Flat. Dead. And gone. Like a freeze dried fruit: no juice.

8 days.

 

It's not just an LED, it's also the touch sensitive switch that is always on.

 

... cut the wire ...
Yes I know where's the exit