HP Pavilion freezing problems

Hello guys, i am an owner of an HP , model PAVILION NB DV7-2230ev.

As of lately, an annoying problem surfaced.The laptop freezes, mainly while playing videos and CPU usage is showing to be 100% constantly.Is this CPU throttling?Is it common to other DV7 laptops?I've tried searching the forum but didn't find something specifically for this model and got lost.

Problem must be solved in short term so any help will be appreciated.

 

what application is 100% ? Run resource monitor and take a look. Also see if app is hogging HDD.

It's probably a bad app... maybe a virus.

 

Try installing the latest version of flash(Assuming its a flash video you're watching?)

 

I would run a virus scan through your computer to see if you got a virus. It could also be some sort of spyware or adware. It sounds like your system is maxing out due to lack of resources. Are you running multiple programs on your computer at a time and it can't handle it? It's possible that defragmenting your computer might help it as well.

 

Ok guys sorry for the late answer. Anti virus is always on & up to date (Kaspersky 1 year trial) and shows nothing. in the application tab, none of the running applications seems to be using more than say 35% but the performance tab shows that the CPU uses all of its resources. Problem surfaces 99% percent when playing videos. I suspect it may be a cooling problem but the weird thing is that the fan doesn't start speeding even when it freezes and slows extremely. Kinda disappointed cause it's my first laptop problem, having previously owned 3 older ones.

 

try turning Kaspersky off. If that doesn't change things, try killing every other non-microsoft windows process from task manager and see if it helps.

Your HDD is not running out of space is it?

To check internal temperature, you can use GPU-Z.

 

HDD has plenty of space.Kaspersky seems to have no conflict. Now installing Everest to check GPU temps.