My first generational Envy 14 overheats and performs very sluggishly (URGENT HELP NEEDED!)

I have a first generation Envy 14 (t-1000) that I purchased about 3 years ago and I did not have any problems with it until recently.

After having some difficulties running games like NBA 2K14, SimCity, Counter Strike: GO (even though it's not a gaming computer, I'm sure my Envy 14 should be able to handle these fine), I decide to delete all of the video card drivers and cleanly reinstall al of them. I also proceeded to tweak some Windows performances such as disabling all start-up programs and non-microsoft services through msconfig.

However, ever since then, my laptop has been overheating like crazy even without demanding programs running in the background (my laptop overheats and the fans run like crazy even when I'm using Google Chrome) and my laptop has been painfully slow. Also, when it gets really hot, my laptop would automatically go to sleep and repeats that process until I manually shut it down and restart it after few minutes.

To solve such programs, even installed a clean version of Windows 8 and the issues still remain.

I'm not sure if two events are related, but I would appreciate any inputs and ideas on how to fix my problem. I'm so close to just purchase a laptop now instead of waiting until next year because of this.

 

Try going back to Windows 7. Also, make sure you have the appropriate Intel drivers + ATI drivers. Don't install the ones from the ATI website of coarse, get the ones from HP because of the switchable graphics card. Also if you're computer shuts off because of heat, let it cool off before turning it on or else you're just going to kill it completely.

 

Did you do any maintenance like cleaning the vent and stuff?
Also try monitor the temp.