Win7 Upgraded Vaio AR790 Running Way Too Hot

Hello!

My Notebook is a Sony Vaio VGN-AR790U/B which shipped with Vista 32-bit. Recently I upgraded it with a clean install of windows 7 Professional 64-bit. Using various drivers, I’ve been able to get nearly everything working.

My problem is that ever since installing Win7, my notebook runs VERY hot, as in far too hot to sit on my lap and even worse is the fact that the wrist pad area gets too hot to even type for more than a few minutes at a time. The fan seems to be operating but at a very slow speed which can’t be heard but it is always on. With Vista the same fan would go on and off and when it was on at full blast it was pretty loud.

I have not made any changes to my Bios and upon entering the Bios; I can’t see any options to make any type of changes to anything other than the boot order and password options. I really don’t want to go back to Vista but the heat problem is too much to live with. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. BTW’ even though the system runs very hot, it has never shutdown even after running it for 48 hours at a time more than once now.

Ash

 

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