HP Pavilion Dv 7, Heat Problems

Hey I got a HP Pavilion Dv7 not to long ago, about six months to be exact...

Anyways, it used to be fine for heat but as of late, it idles at around 70 C for the dual cores and GPU...it's beginning to worry me a bit because when i play games they can reach temperatures of 90 C. Anyone else have this problem?

By the way, I have the most recent Bios update and I have cleaned the vents too. Something worth noting though is that when I bought this laptop it was the only one left, which was the display unit, do you reckon that it may have had wear and tear due to this already?

Any suggestions would be appreciated, although I have a feeling I might have to bring it in to get it checked out

 

Never mind, I think I may have found the problem. I have Windows 7 Ultimate on my laptop, and for some reason it's always running the CPU's at full load. I'm assuming this is because HP hasn't released any specialized drivers yet for Windows 7 so it looks like I'll have to wait this one out for a little while. I looked it up online and other people seem to have similar problems, but couldn't find a solution at the moment.

 

Aha, I have found the real problem and a temporary solution to this. I'm bumping this because it seems to be a lot more common for laptops and people often don't seem to realize it either.

Basically, my laptop was on a full load most of the time causing the CPU heats to sky rocket. It turns out it's caused by a driver problem that has yet to be acknowledged by HP (in my case) or other driver manufacturers.

It is a file in the sound driver called stacsv.exe that controls audio going to and from jacks on computers and laptops as far as i know. The only solution I have at the moment is to go to Control Panel --> Administrative Tools --> Services. When in this find Audio Services, stop it and then start it again. Unfortunately you have to do this every time when you start or restart your computer.

Other people have installed older drivers and that has worked for them, it just made my sound go for me. If you're not sure whether this is happening or not, you can open the task manager (ctrl + alt + delete), click on the performance tab and open the Resource monitor app. This will show you what's being used most by your processor. Stacsv.exe will be at the top using 50% if you're encountering this problem.

Hope this helps people unsure of why their laptops run so hot! It's a problem that can happen in both Vista and Windows 7.