Re: Battery drain with poweroff
Alexander V. Makartsev (12021-02-08): > I think fastest and easiest way is to swap current disk with another (if it > is available of course) and install Evaluation version of Windows 10 > Enterprise. [1] Unfortunately, switching the disk is not an option. Booting from a SD card could work, but I do not know windows enough to test. > Another viable option, because you've got a drive image of preinstalled > Windows 10, is to save an image of current drive and restore from the image > with preinstalled Windows OS. This I can do, but I would like to avoid if possible, because of the time and wear. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Battery drain with poweroff
On 08.02.2021 18:04, Marko Randjelovic wrote: Hi all, On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 13:26:12 +0100 Nicolas George wrote: Now I need a way to apply it; apparently I need some way to boot Windows. I hope I will not need to overwrite the complete drive with the backup image I made. There is a program named 'flashrom' in Debian, but I don't know how reliable is it as BIOS flash is quite a dangerous operation. I decided to risk several years ago on an AMD system with MSI motherboard and was successful. Regards, Marko It won't help in this case, because BIOS update from Acer is actually a package without plain binary ROM file. 'flashrom' could be used to backup original BIOS to file, before updating, but I doubt it is necessary. -- With kindest regards, Alexander. ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org ⠈⠳⣄
Re: Battery drain with poweroff
On 08.02.2021 17:26, Nicolas George wrote: Alexander V. Makartsev (12021-02-08): Probably something to do with USB-Charger feature. Acer got a BIOS update 1.09 [1] that claims to fix similar issue. I don't know what is your model exactly, so look up BIOS update for your laptop using SNID code. [1] https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/support-product/8273?b=1 Thanks, I never think of BIOS updates. This is the one for my exact model, and the title looks very promising. This is usually first procedure I do for new hardware, because products nowadays are rushed to the market, so internal firmware for all kinds of devices is often poorly tested. Now I need a way to apply it; apparently I need some way to boot Windows. I hope I will not need to overwrite the complete drive with the backup image I made. Regards, I think fastest and easiest way is to swap current disk with another (if it is available of course) and install Evaluation version of Windows 10 Enterprise. [1] This version doesn't require a product key or activation. Some BIOS\Firmware updates could be installed from WinPE (or WinRE) environment, but I doubt this one from Acer could run on WinPE, because it is bundled with a driver, along side with a few executable binaries and shared DLLs. Another viable option, because you've got a drive image of preinstalled Windows 10, is to save an image of current drive and restore from the image with preinstalled Windows OS. And after BIOS is updated, restore from the saved image with latest data. Clunky solutions, but I think there are no other options, because apparently Acer hates GNU-Linux. :\ [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-10-enterprise -- With kindest regards, Alexander. ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org ⠈⠳⣄
Re: Battery drain with poweroff
Hi all, On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 13:26:12 +0100 Nicolas George wrote: > Now I need a way to apply it; apparently I need some way to boot > Windows. I hope I will not need to overwrite the complete drive with the > backup image I made. There is a program named 'flashrom' in Debian, but I don't know how reliable is it as BIOS flash is quite a dangerous operation. I decided to risk several years ago on an AMD system with MSI motherboard and was successful. Regards, Marko pgpbyinqH4rjU.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Battery drain with poweroff
Alexander V. Makartsev (12021-02-08): > Probably something to do with USB-Charger feature. > Acer got a BIOS update 1.09 [1] that claims to fix similar issue. > I don't know what is your model exactly, so look up BIOS update for your > laptop using SNID code. > > [1] https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/support-product/8273?b=1 Thanks, I never think of BIOS updates. This is the one for my exact model, and the title looks very promising. Now I need a way to apply it; apparently I need some way to boot Windows. I hope I will not need to overwrite the complete drive with the backup image I made. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Battery drain with poweroff
On 08.02.2021 15:01, Nicolas George wrote: Hi. On my new Acer TravelMate Spin B3, running recent Bullseye, I have noticed a strange battery drain when the computer is powered off: it loses about 1% of the total battery charge every hour, which makes a quarter of the battery in a day. The drain happens when the computer has been powered down with poweroff or an equivalent. I have checked, and it does not happen if I power down with a long press on the power button (after halt). Therefore, it is a sign of something staying powered with the normal kernel shutdown. I have checked that wake-on-lan, wake-on-RTC-clock and similar features are disabled in the setup. Does anybody have an idea about what could be the culprit or how to investigate? Thanks in advance. Probably something to do with USB-Charger feature. Acer got a BIOS update 1.09 [1] that claims to fix similar issue. I don't know what is your model exactly, so look up BIOS update for your laptop using SNID code. [1] https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/support-product/8273?b=1 -- With kindest regards, Alexander. ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org ⠈⠳⣄
