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Poor battery life on Dell E7450
Hi! A few months ago I bought a Dell E7450. One of the main reasons for choosing this laptop was the battery. According to reviews it should do over 8 hrs of web surfing.
That apparently was far from the truth. The laptop at best does 3-4 hours of moderate use. Probably because of the nvidia 840m GPU. I thought I would be able to manually disable the GPU in BIOS, but there is no option for that.
Is there any way to increase battery life? Would dell support be able to help me in any way?
jvik
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June 21st, 2016 04:00
Contacted dell support and they shipped a new battery.
Also setting integrated graphics from nvidia menu will disable nvidia GPU completely.
jvik
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June 9th, 2016 08:00
Hi! I upgraded BIOS to latest available version yesterday. Battery life is still terrible with clean install of Windows. ~4 hours.
DELL-Akshatha M
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June 9th, 2016 08:00
Hi JVIK,
Thank you for writing to Dell Community Forum.
Please update the BIOS to the latest available version from the Dell Support Site.
Please private message us the service tag of the system along with your email id.
(Note: please don't mention the service tag or email id on the public forum as it contains your personal information).
Regards,
DELL-Akshatha M
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