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I have a HP 8730W Laptop that has been installed with Windows 7 since RTM. Over time, all updates has been installed. Lately, I have noticed quite an increase in the CPU fan usage. Earlier, when idle, the fan was not noticeable at all. But now it spins all the time.
I just installed Core Temp and right now when I only have Outlook idle, and writing this in Internet Explorer 9, it reports that the idle core temps are 60° and 61° C (140/141°F). I have no clue what temperatures I had before, but the Laptop itself is indeed much warmer now than before.
So here's what I have tried:
- Opened the keyboard/case and looked to see if there were any dust collecting up in the fan, but it was surprisingly clean.
- Re-paved with Windows 7 SP1
None of these have helped.
Other specs:
- Intel Core 2 Duo T9600
- nVidia Quadro FX 2700M drivers 261.28
- 8GB DDR2 RAM
- Intel 160GB SSD G2
Running resource monitor for a while shows that the top average CPU usage consumer (some ~6% now when idle) is iexplore.exe
. So the obvious thing would be to rollback to Internet Explorer 8. But if I use Chrome instead, it doesn't change much of the behaviour.
EDIT: Uninstalled Internet Explorer 9 and after reboot, average temp is still 61C just idling.
Has anyone noticed something similar or can give me some advice?
If this fixes your issue, you can mark your answer as the solution, you will get no reps for it, but it will help others when searching the boards. – Moab – 2011-03-28T14:17:22.810
@Moab. Yes, that was my intention. However, I'm not 100% satisfied with the behavior still. It seems that once I have done some intensive work causing a higher temperature, it doesn't seem to go back to a cooler temp once idling again. – Magnus – 2011-03-30T18:35:05.097