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Daniel_Buckley
Copper Contributor
Jun 06, 2024

Windows 11 drains battery when laptop is shutdown - Fast Startup is disabled

Hello everyone! I'm using an MSI GL65 9SD laptop, and I've noticed an issue where it loses about 5% of battery every day, even when it's turned off. I've already disabled fast startup, but the problem persists.

 

I came across a similar problem in another thread where the original poster suggested it might be related to the BIOS settings. I've gone ahead and disabled the C state for the CPU in the BIOS, but I'm still facing the same issue.

 

Could anyone suggest what else I should check in the BIOS to ensure that my laptop is fully shutting down and not just entering some sort of sleep or standby mode? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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  • Darrell Gorter's avatar
    Darrell Gorter
    Brass Contributor
    Jun 07, 2024
    Hello,
    I would start by opening a elevated CMD prompt and running powercfg reports.
    Powercfg /Energy analyses the system for common energy-efficiency and battery life problems.

    You may want to run powercfg /systempowerreport. This generates a diagnostic system power transition report.
    We may see if something is waking the system up multiple times.

    Darrell