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CPU Overheating

Nobody

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Hi everyone!

I own a gaming laptop and up until recently, it was doing fine with both random tasks and when gaming. However, I have to do these with the laptop plugged in as the battery no longer works as it should. It drains very quickly. Even if it says 65 % remaining it shuts off by itself.

Today when I was just working on Word I noticed that the fans were going crazy and when I open the fan speed setting I noticed that the CPU temperature was over 80 degrees. Even when I'm typing this with just one Chrome tab open the temp is insane. It's plugged in, but when I'm on battery only, the temps go back to normal.

I checked the vents and I keep my room cool because I know that laptops are tricky when it comes to temps, but this had never happened before.

I looked at the processes and nothing seems out of the ordinary, my drivers are updated...

Also, I don't know if this has anything to do, but last night there was a cumulative update for Windows 11 that got installed.

I will appreciate any suggestions on what I can do to fix this. The first image is when the laptop's plugged in, the second on battery only, and the last one the CPU specs.

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Clean fans if any
 
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As we have no comparison it's hard to give you a solid answer, personally I take screenshots of hardware monitor after a build in a known good state so I have a good datum point to check If voltages or temps have changed when I run into an issue.

If you have checked the fans and they seem clean, you could try rolling back on the update to check if that has somehow caused the issue.
 
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Hello welcome to tpu..
Your laptop is running on 10th gen cpu and doesnt seem that long ago...
is your laptop still under warranty? i would get that battery changed
as for temps, like eidairaman said clean the fans.. and check the thermal paste, factory thermal paste tends to be subpar
could be dried and needing new fresh thermal paste
 
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Better check the task manager to see what program is utilizing the CPU that much
The difference between plugged and on battery should be the power management settings
 
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Hi guys! Thank you all for replying and the welcome.

I did check the vents and the fans and rolled back the last quality update, to no avail.

So I checked the task manager one more time and, I can't believe I missed this the first time, but something called Windows Widgets was causing the ruckus.

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Again, I don't know how in the world I missed THE ONLY PROCESS that was in red, clearly taking a chunk of my CPU.

When I turned on my computer today that program auto started running in the background again, so I had to force stop it. It's pretty annoying, but at least now I know that it's not a huge deal. I was really worried and now I feel silly haha.

Thank you all for taking the time to answer!
 
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