Hello everyone. I bought HP OMEN 16 with AMD RYZEN 9 8940HX brand new around 10 days ago. It came with FreeDOS and I immediately installed Zorin 18 PRO. Since then I've been having this problem that the battery drains even while the laptop is powered off and unplugged. I mean if I leave it for 2-3.hours battery goes from 100 to 0 and I need to plug it in so that it can start. I've followed the official way of installing with Nvidia drivers (geforce 5070) and everything went smoothly. I've also installed tpu and ran it, I also tried auto-cpufreq separately but still 0 change. If I use it unplugged the battery lasts 2/3 hours which is still way less than the advertised 6/7. I ran tests for power consumption and my nvidia card is always above 27W even when nothing is opened on the laptop, I've seen it go up to 80W when opening some app that requires more GPU. The only way to stop this from happening from what I've tested is after powering the laptop off to hold the power button for 10 seconds so that it clears the EC. Any ideas on how I can fix are greatly appreciated because this is really annoying!
Hi and welcome.
Are you using the device for gaming? Is fast boot turned off in the BIOS? This prevents hard drive from going to sleep. What are your power settings set to? Have you tried using the Nouveau drivers instead of nvidia?
Welcome to the Forum!
When You turn off the Machine, how You do that exactly?
The fact that this occurs when the notebook is "off" is the most telling. This means that it is not "off - or reaching a state of complete shutdown, S5.
This sounds a lot like a Firmware bug. When combined with Nvidia 5070, which is EC controlled, not OS controlled, the Nvidia Card can draw 20–30 W indefinitely, even with the OS seemingly shut down.
Have you checked if there are any BIOS updates available for your machine?
If there are none, I would return it, due to faulty firmware. Running Linux did not cause it, it only exposes it.