I recently installed Windows 8 on my HP G62 Laptop and i have been noticing a very strange problem with it.

Let alone, for lets say 5 minutes, without even touching it, it starts to heat up and it reaches about 60 degrees (Celsius) with absolutely no applications open (not just on desktop but overall).

I dug in a little deep and found out that Maintenance was running when the computer was Idle, so i turned that off From the System's Task Scheduler, and while there i also turned off other services i did not need hoping that would solve the problem.

So after a few days, i noticed that the average temperature of my laptop dropped from 55 to 48 degrees while working on Visual Studio. And when i thought the problem had disappeared, it still did show up, only not after 5 minutes, but more like 10 minutes...

Here is what i have done so far:

• Replacing the thermal paste on the CPU and the fan and cleaning the fan (this was like 6 months ago)
• Using a laptop cooler
• Running a virus scan (i just formatted my laptop so it would be really weird if i already caught something but who knows)

Right now, i believe it has something to do with my gfx driver (Even though it IS up to date, looking closely at the screen, i can see the pixels slowly refresh (kinda like watching static on TV) which i wasn't able to do on Windows 7.

If you have any ideas, let me know.

Thanks