Battery Drain while powered off ?

just to add to the advice whs gave you , i would take the lappy back to where you bought it from because 9% overnight drainage appears to me ,to be excessive :)

Hello malcolm347, welcome to Seven Forums!



Windows will not "wake up" a PC that has been turned off.

malcolm347 said:

My new HP Dm3T laptop is great, except that when I turn it off at night, the next day I notice significant battery drain, just from being off overnight.

For example, it was at 100 % charge this past friday night. Then on saturday around 1pm when I turned it on, it had about 91% charge. This was not even a 24 hour time period.

The laptop has windows 7 home premium, and i have heard about some timers that wake up the laptop to scan for viruses and what not.

Does anyone know why my battery would drain like this ?

P.S. I have been using macs for the past few years, and I am re-learning all of my PC knowledge.

I agree that 9% is excessive, but read this and make sure that you are using proper manintenance.
Laptop battery tips at laptop-battery.org

Yes, please post back to keep us informed.

malcolm347 said:

i have not done the suggested cycles (full drain and charge several times) yet since I just received it on friday. I will do the cycles, then re post here if the problem continues. thanks !

That is vital, or the useful life of the battery will be diminished and you will have to buy a new one, before you are ready.

malcolm347 said:

i have not done the suggested cycles (full drain and charge several times) yet since I just received it on friday. I will do the cycles, then re post here if the problem continues. thanks !

Yes it is recommended...don't forget to unplug the computer from based wall plug and not the notebook plug when you have to...it does let the time the AC Adapter to get discharge, and plug on wall before re-plug the computer.

Sometimes when resume from standby mine does says 98%, then i unplug and let battery drain a certain amount then plug it again...and everything goes to normal after for a week or so...

my laptop an I9400 is a power hungry beast , but after 2 days of no use it will still retain 100% battery life and to be honest i dont cycle the battery so i suppose ,as in life there are good and bad ,but for a four day old laptop to drain that much overnight i would suspect a faulty battery :)