Sony Vaio badly wants to take off

[payared]

Hi

I just received the following machine for my daughter and I am in the process of setting it up for her. Activity monitor shows almost no activity but the machine's fan is always running close to max even though the laptop is cool. This is unbearable. What can I do to make this machine stop thinking it is a plane?

Product:

US-VPCSE190X-LBOM

Component:

Internal lithium polymer battery (4400mAh)

Component:

Fresh Start

Component:

Blu-ray Disc™ player

Component:

Intel® Core™ i7-2640M processor (2.80GHz / 3.50GHz with Turbo Boost)

Component:

4GB (4GB fixed onboard + 1 open SDRAM slot) DDR3-SDRAM-1333

Component:

Genuine Windows® 7 Professional 64-bit

Component:

AMD Radeon™ HD 6630M (1GB) hybrid graphics with Intel® Wireless Display technology

Component:

15.5" LED backlit Full HD display (1920 x 1080)

Component:

500GB (7200rpm) hard drive

Description:

15.5" S Series Customizable Laptop

[Azureal]

Use the task manager to find processes which are using excessive CPU and kill them. You'll want to determine how these are started on boot as well and stop them from restarting. Most likely junkware installed by Sony to sell you some junk software you do not need.

Google is your friend ....

[sfbp]

Another thing may be the WiFi hunting desperately for connx (not good for your - and her - brain, either). Try disabling it for a bit.