You may check cpu frequency and try to cap it via cpupower. But high power drain persist in windows too, so this is not fully linux problem.
To be honest, i'm not believe battery reset helps, but who knows... There was another (cpu related) problem with another Acer laptop, that was fixed that way. I found this while searching solution for "this topic" ACPI issue: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1081448.html -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776563 Title: Acer Aspire A315 IOAPIC failure on Ubuntu 18.04, kernel hangs, can't load, kernel freeze (AMD Ryzen 5/Radeon/Raven) / AMDGPU Hybrid crash To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/amd/+bug/1776563/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs