Computer Overheating after windows 7 install

[Guest]

I recently bought and upgraded Windows Vista to Windows 7. After I did this my laptop started overheating which it has never done before. Now the only way I can play games and use my system vigorously is if I have a cooling pad attached to it. Is there any reason why it would overheat when windows 7 is suppose to help that issue not cause it?

 

[treefrog07]

1. Dust or lint accumulation on or near the cooling fan?
2. Dust or lint in the air vents for the fan?

 

[noke]

I have just the same problem!
upgraded from windows vista to windows 7, after one houre of gaming, my laptop shuts down!
did you find a solution?


grtz

 

[pathasse]

Bios Upgrade would be my first guess.

 

[pathasse]

Also, Maybe try running in compatibility mode, by right clicking the app and go to properties. This helped me on some apps.

Good Luck

 

[Guest]

Yea.. ok he installs Windows 7 and you ask him about dust in the fan. lol.

9 times out of 10 this is a drivers update issue. This happens quite frequently on HP Pavilions.

Either you need to update your BIOs, or the new video card driver windows 7 installed is causing it to overheat and crash.

This has been an issue with my HP Pavilions since I bought it a year ago, anytime Windows update tried to update the video card drivers, immediately the laptop would over heat and begin shutting down without saving work. Returned the computer 3 times until the warranty ran out, then HP wanted a ridiculous amount of money to repair something they did not repair the first three times.

I recommend try to roll back to a previous video driver from before the Windows 7 install. If that does not work, you may not be able to resolve the issue unless you revert back to previous OS.

I just upgraded to Windows 7 last night, and almost immediately this laptop began overheating and crashing as well.

 

[Aneesh@4GHz]

About 30-35% windows 7 users are having probs like this,So change the os to vista !

 

[brendz155]

Hmm you might got a broken fan or its clogged with dust and particles buy a can of compressed air and clean it.

hope this helped
brendan

 

[brendz155]

And also is your cooling good enough and you need a lot of ram and a powerful processor to run win7 anyway.

 

[hefox]

I think you should look for the latest drivers. I had a similar problem with HP but I was using XP pro but the same problem. After installing the latest drivers, the problem was solved.

 

[dwayne42]

Yea.. ok he installs Windows 7 and you ask him about dust in the fan. lol.

9 times out of 10 this is a drivers update issue. This happens quite frequently on HP Pavilions.

Either you need to update your BIOs, or the new video card driver windows 7 installed is causing it to overheat and crash.

This has been an issue with my HP Pavilions since I bought it a year ago, anytime Windows update tried to update the video card drivers, immediately the laptop would over heat and begin shutting down without saving work. Returned the computer 3 times until the warranty ran out, then HP wanted a ridiculous amount of money to repair something they did not repair the first three times.

I recommend try to roll back to a previous video driver from before the Windows 7 install. If that does not work, you may not be able to resolve the issue unless you revert back to previous OS.

I just upgraded to Windows 7 last night, and almost immediately this laptop began overheating and crashing as well.

windows 7 still needs work i think so i went back to vista. Almost ended up sending my computer away for nothing. It's a driver issue. Do you think it will work to have the windows 7 but rollback that driver to the vista driver? I am operating with a dell laptop inspiron 1525 processor 2.0 2g mem 320 g hard drive. what do you think??

 

[pwrhamr]

Could be something as simple as file sharing being enabled with media player. Makes the system and fan work overtime. Turn off file sharing. Will notice an immediate improvement.

 

[viseo2001]

This my second try with windows 7 64bit and 32bit o/s on my Toshiba laptop, that by the way toshiba tell's me there should be no problem having win 7 on my machine. Well wrong answer toshiba, because no matter what i do or try the laptop overheats and the fan keeps going full speed all the time.

The thing to do at this time people is wait for Microsoft to put out a service pack and hope this fixes the problem so many people are having and also keep checking your laptop manufacture for a bios update and other drivers for your machine, just remember when windows xp first came out it was terrible until the first service pack, why should windows 7 be any different.

 

[tdool]

Its not only Laptops but three gaming PC towers I just installed Win7 64 have the same issues.

Check it out here http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/3485-63-shutdown-gaming-win7

 

[tehdansorz]

The same problem here ! I have a HP Pavillion dv5 and i upgraded my windows from vista to 7 . At first there were no problems , but now it overheats faster every time . I cleaned my fan , nothing changed . I think this is a driver problem , try going and updating them . I'll post again if it helped me !

 

[tehdansorz]

Ok , most of you have HP Pavillion with ATI software , right ?
Here's what you have to do :
1. Update ALL ATI drivers .
2. Restart your computer .
3. Go to Start > All Programs > AMD Vision Engine Control Center and launch the program .
4. Go to Power > CPU Power and set both Processor speeds to 50% .
5. Tweak everything else to what you think your computer can/can't do .
You're done ! My computer doesn't overheat anymore . Your shouldn't either - have fun !

 

[tehdansorz]

Also - if you are playing some game that's fullscreen , change your power plan to Balanced if you don't want your computer to overheat again .