HP Laptop

[fred0843]

PCLinuxOS 2012.2 installed on a HP G72 Laptop.When turned off. The battery will still drain. I have no drain when I turn it off with Windows.

Any ideas on a fix ?

[pags]

How are you shutting down the laptop?  Mouse and menu?  Power button?  Maybe it is going into sleep (suspend to ram) instead of powering down?

[fred0843]

Mouse and menu

[pags]

Next time, can you try running the following from a command prompt:

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su -c poweroff
Supply the root password, and the system should shutdown (make sure you've saved all your work!).

[T6]

is it possible that this laptop has the usb charger function and the kernel is not handling it properly?

[fred0843]

I do not know.

Looks like a Linux problem.I shutdown with another Linux OS and it does the same thing.

[mechatotoro]

I do not know.

Looks like a Linux problem.I shutdown with another Linux OS and it does the same thing.

I'm afraid that one is not so much a Linux problem as it is a HP hardware configuration problem.  I followed some threads and it turns out that Windows users have also experienced the same battery drain when the laptop/netbook is off: http://myhpmini.com/forum/f54/battery-drains-after-2-days-when-completely-shut-down-3281-2.html

For some, the fix was to disable the Wake up from LAN.  You might want to try that.

[thorper]

I have an HP G56 laptop and don't have this problem. Maybe you need to check the BIOS settings to see if anything is wrong. Only other thing that comes to mind is a faulty battery pack that not holding charge.

[T6]

and in hp, this is sadly common