Cpu performance decrease when battery under 10% - cant even play a youtube video?

IrishWelshCelt

So I got this new laptop recently and one of the great features is the 5 hour battery however whenever the battery gets below 10% (i.e. it sends me the warn battery low message) it is like the PC goes into shutdown or something. I think this may be something that is changeable like an internal setting designed to save power maybe? It is only a month or so old and has been like this from the start. As you can imagine this is pretty annoying considering that at 10% it still has 30 mins of battery left.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

The model is acer aspire e5-571.

Specs: http://gyazo.com/d5348b052f3e0d89907557fce5c60add.png

KickButtowski

IrishWelshCelt wrote: »

So I got this new laptop recently and one of the great features is the 5 hour battery however whenever the battery gets below 10% (i.e. it sends me the warn battery low message) it is like the PC goes into shutdown or something. I think this may be something that is changeable like an internal setting designed to save power maybe? It is only a month or so old and has been like this from the start. As you can imagine this is pretty annoying considering that at 10% it still has 30 mins of battery left.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

The model is acer aspire e5-571.

It's prominently a power saver. Its so you don't lose your work. It is entirely for your benefit.
You have 30 minutes left on power BECAUSE it's gone into that power saver mode. It would be significantly lower on your previous setting. Just plug in your pc when it's on 10%. Its good for the battery.

Butt here you go: Power Options --> Change Plan Settings(of your currently enabled plan)--> Change Advanced Power Settings --> Battery --> Critical Battery Action

Hope that helps! Don't mind my two cents thrown if you don't agree!

KickButtowski

IrishWelshCelt wrote: »

So I got this new laptop recently and one of the great features is the 5 hour battery however whenever the battery gets below 10% (i.e. it sends me the warn battery low message) it is like the PC goes into shutdown or something. I think this may be something that is changeable like an internal setting designed to save power maybe? It is only a month or so old and has been like this from the start. As you can imagine this is pretty annoying considering that at 10% it still has 30 mins of battery left.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

The model is acer aspire e5-571.

It's prominently a power saver. Its so you don't lose your work. It is entirely for your benefit.
You have 30 minutes left on power BECAUSE it's gone into that power saver mode. It would be significantly lower on your previous setting. Just plug in your pc when it's on 10%. Its good for the battery.

Butt here you go: Power Options --> Change Plan Settings(of your currently enabled plan)--> Change Advanced Power Settings --> Battery --> Critical Battery Action

Hope that helps! Don't mind my two cents thrown if you don't agree!

IrishWelshCelt

Thanks for the advice, I've changed it from hibernate to sleep in there but I'm sure there must be something obvious Im missing!