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Upgrade to Windows 7... battery drain
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 11:10 am
by Jshakour
I upgraded from Vista to 7.
When I was running Vista I got almost 4 hours of battery life, I upgraded to Windows 7 and now I get less than 2 hours. Has anybody else experienced this?
-James
Re: Upgrade to Windows 7... battery drain
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 11:48 am
by Harryc
Go into Power Manager and choose the 'maximum battery life' power plan.
Re: Upgrade to Windows 7... battery drain
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 11:59 am
by Jshakour
I co-worker of mine did the up grade as well and his battery life is still 4+ hours, should those changes carry over from Vista?
Re: Upgrade to Windows 7... battery drain
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 12:08 pm
by Harryc
I know on a fresh install of Windows 7, the default is no power plan selected in Power Manager. I can't comment on an upgrade never having done one. It's easy enough to check...
Re: Upgrade to Windows 7... battery drain
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 4:12 pm
by awolfe63
Has anyone received their OEM Win 7 upgrade disks for a W500 yet?
Re: Upgrade to Windows 7... battery drain
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 4:13 pm
by Harryc
Re: Upgrade to Windows 7... battery drain
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 9:25 pm
by Jshakour
I set the power plan to max battery and it only gave me 12 more minutes, bringing my total to 2hours and 12 minutes. Could it be coincidence that around the time I upgraded I noticed the battery isn't holding a charge?
I used a MSDN Windows 7 upgrade disc.
Re: Upgrade to Windows 7... battery drain
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:39 am
by beretta031
I got a new battery for my W500 i'll wait till its fully charged and let you guys know the results!
Re: Upgrade to Windows 7... battery drain
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:54 pm
by beretta031
No dice! I have the same issue....
AAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH
Re: Upgrade to Windows 7... battery drain
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:24 am
by Greg Gebhardt
Sounds like a setting is not right or you got something running in the back ground. Are you noticing alot of HD activity? Most new systems take a while to "settle down" before thing get back to normal
Re: Upgrade to Windows 7... battery drain
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:20 pm
by beretta031
@@UPDATE@@
I had a brand new W500 come in, so I installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 battery was 88% and I was getting 3 hours. I installed the ThinkVantage drivers from System Update, installed the Power Manager drivers and battey life dropped to 2 hours and 19 minutes. I uninstalled the power managment drive and battery life went up to 3 hours and 35 minutes......Interesting!