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Help With Laptop CPU Overheating!
I have a sony vaio with windows 7 that I purchased 4 years ago. the specs are:
- i7 CPU quad-core
- Max clock speed: 1734MHz
- Current clock speed: 1734MHz
- External Clock: 133Mhz
- L2 Cache size: 1MB
- L2 Cache Speed: MHz (doesn't show number. just says "MHz")
- L3 Cache size: 6MB
- L3 cache speed: 0 MHz
- Current voltage: 1.4v
- Load percentage: 5%
- 8GB DDR ram
- 500GB HDD
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M video card
My problem is actually a couple things. First of all, my laptop IS SO UNBELIEVABLY LOUD every second it is on no matter what. The fan never turns off even if I have no program open it is going full blast most of the time and is so freaking loud. Secondly, my CPU is constantly at 180 degree's Fahrenheit according to SpeedFan software. The speedfan software says my CPU, GPU, System, Temp1, Temp2, Core 0, Core 1 are always each around 180 degree's Fahrenheit. From what I read, that doesn't sound good! Also, the corner of my laptop where the CPU/fan is will literally burn your finger if you touch it for too long....
Other notes:
- When I monitor my average CPU/Memory usage, my CPU Usage is below 10% and Memory shows around 2.75GB. Also it shows 328MB paged memory and 147MB nonpaged memory.
- I have always had my pc optimized for best performance and I have disabled so many "crap" programs/services from running as well as nothing at startup so please don't mention anything about programs being an issue because it happens with no programs even open(even in safemode).
- A couple of times the computer restarts out of nowhere with no warning or blue screen. just literally restarts immediately. I think this might be some mechanism to protect overheating?
- I have optimized my pc with Windows 7 Manager which initially helped the problem but now the problem is non-stop.
Some questions:
1. Is there a setting to stop the fan from being on constantly?
2. Is the fan on constantly because of the heat I can feel near the fan/cpu, or is the heat I feel near the fan/cpu CAUSED by the fan being on non-stop?
3. There is no visible dust/blockage on the fan/cpu. I have not opened it up but I have used co2 shots to clear way and that did no good..
any help is greatly appreciated!