Laptop too hot

[DanT]

My HP Pavilion dv7 seems too hot. CUPID Hardware Monitor says

Room temperature is about 78 degrees

Temperatures

    TZ01     132 degrees

    PCH      167 degrees

   GMCH    131 degrees

machine is 1 year old or so and has never been in a dirty or dusty environment.  Air inflow grills look clean

Is there a way to tell if fan is working?  Is there a way to adjust the fan's operation?  Any other ideas?

[Kalt]

If the fan didn't work, the computer would shut down in about 10-15 minutes once it reached the temperature threshold. Those temperatures don't really seem too bad for what you're running and the room temp.

You can use a can of compressed air to blow the vents out (computer off) and then make sure you've got the latest BIOS update installed.

[calvin1977]

i did it with compressed air but after that my keyboard started to malfunction , any idea what had happened ? previously before using compressed air keyboard was sorking fine but now (if you press a the caps lock goes on ,if you press s there comes some other thing on screen what to do ?

[REO51ST]

Sometimes it takes more than just blowing it out with air.

This is a prime example of someone just using air without taking off the keyboard.

Check out the picture of the "BEAST" he found.

http://i45.tinypic.com/35id254.jpg

  http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware/Elitebook-8530w-gets-extremely-hot/m-p/1722439#M77543

Good luck.