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Asus Eee 900 – Battery Drain while Power off

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Several eee 900 users experimented this problem when they left their fully charged Eeepcs with the battery plugged in and the power turned off.

After a day resting it went down to 50% and after a couple of days it was all consumed.

It might be a feature of the bios because when you have your laptop turned off you can charge your gadgets and ipods using the usb ports.

The webcam is also a big sink where battery life leaks through so i turned it off in the bios quite easily as i wasnt using it regularly.

I then went and disabled the memory card slot and i experimented a big difference in my power.

So:

  • Don’t panic if your eeepc discharges if you leave him resting with the battery plugged.
    Disable those features that you won’t be using in a daily basis (you can turn them on again when you feel the urge).
    Keep your battery unplugged and in a cold place, if you are not going to use it in a long time keep it charged at 40% level.
    Try installing the 802 bios, they might have solved this issue (not tested yet though).
    Get yourself a more capacity battery at eBay.
    Go to BatteryUniversity for more tips on power saving and battery health care.
  • I hope you like this little guide and if you have any questions feel free to ask me.

    Asus Eee Blog – Long time no post…

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    It’s been a while since my last post, i know, it’s my fault. I’ve been very busy with university and my other websites so i didn’t have time to get here and post.

    I’ll try to sum up everything that happened these days “UMPC wise” in my life…

    I sold my asus eee 701 a couple of days before the official release in spanish stores. A great move i detailed in this post: He vendido my Asus Eee, a tiempo.

    I sold it to a stranger that offered 375€ for an “in the hands” sale. Awesome for me. Then i started browsing eBay for a new one and came across this e-bagel-tw seller i already read about in some forums and decided to order a 20gb linux Eee 900, it was 390€ shipping includded. Not bad considering how much i got for selling my old 701.

    So it came and i downloaded a Windows XP Fundamentals For Legacy PCs rip made by a spanish guy called Karacorum (Ma quedao un XP nikelao) which i highly recommend to anyone because it’s so light and perfect. It even has a built in App to swith the “;” for our very own spanish “Ñ”.

    Added the drivers from the Asus CD…

    Then i started to customize it with rocketdock, and some basic programs, installed pidgin, vlc, firefox 3 and downloaded some games.

    PokerTH Portable, Governor of Poker, Diablo, Neverwinter Nights, Lost in Time with Scumm and Unreal Tournament.

    I was set.

    But then a couple of days ago i stumbled upon Backtrack3 for wifi “audition”, a linux distro that will let you “remember” “your” “forgotten” wifi password. You know what i mean.

    Im a total noob with linux but a guide i used worked fine enough to get my own password after a 20 minutes test. Ill detail the steps to do this in an upcoming post.

    And that pretty much it.

    Ill try to write some posts every now and then as i discover more things about my little liliput machine.

    Asus eee 900: 802 Bios Update is Out

     eee biosAsus has updated his /bios folder and has released a new official version for the Eee Pc 900: the 802.

    You can download it from here: http://update.eeepc.asus.com/bios/

    I didnt try it yet because i want to read the changelog first but if you install it please leave a comment.

    Edit: “CPU speeds and the unit does boot up at 630Mhz when on Battery, 900Mhz on Mains. The switch between frequencies when you plug/unplug the cord is still working.”


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