Windows 10: my laptop is hot!!! cpu mining???

ok so i installed windows 10 on one of my laptops, haven’t really used it until tonight. i was watching a movie on a popular movie streaming site and it started getting hot, the fan was running like crazy. so i deiced to open task viewer (or what ever its called) and keep track of some stats sure enough like 70% -- 100% cpu usage. Its like 1.6ghz and 4gbs of ram so not to out of date although it is a old laptop i think i got it in 2006. seams like a lot for just watching a movie in sd. Could i be a victim of cpu mining how do i tell?? thanks in advance*Biggrin

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Discharge rate of laptop battery VERY high at idle.

You don't understand, my battery's discharge rate was going at 33-37W. A fan being on simply can't do that. Also, the fan was shoving VERY hot air out, even the laptop became hotter than normal. The fan cools my CPU and I know where my CPU is in this laptop,
and when I feel under that area it's VERY hot. I know that the fan is on because the CPU is getting too hot, even when at idle. This isn't a battery issue, this isn't a fan issue, it's something that's making the CPU hot or the CPU is becoming hot for some
reason. There is no short circuit or anything because new installs of Windows fix the problem, something keeps on happenning and I have yet to find out what that is.

 

Discharge rate of laptop battery VERY high at idle.

I just restarted my computer and everything seems fine. I didn't even go to a separate partition like last time. I am completely stumped by what the problem may be. If the fans are going full blast, it means the temperature of the CPU is very hot. I feel
the air coming out as very hot when my battery life problem is happening and the bottom of my laptop where my CPU is, is also very hot. I don't know why my CPU would be hot for ever if it's at 5% usage, because the fans stay on forever when I have the problem.
I used to think that it might be reading the temperatures wrong, but since the air is truly hot, it might be AMD's problem.

Anyways, I'm probably going to buy a laptop with an AMD Ryzen APU since AMD Ryzen desktop CPU's demolish intel's CPU's for a lower price, I believe the Raven Ridge CPU lineup will do the same for the laptop space, I'll wait for reviews of course.

 

I think if I was into cpu mining I'd pick a better cpu than yours!

My best guess is that win 10 is doing other things as well as playing the movie. It could, for example, be indexing files. Does Task Manager show high disk usage?

I would let it run for a while till it 'settles itself down'.

 

Add a usb connected external cooling assembly below the laptop; my two Acers run less hot because of those devices.

 

What cpu are you running? I would have thought that if its 2006, it would have been creaking at the seems and running hot as a matter of course.

Anyhoo, out of interest, to test for cpu mining - a virus /pup- try this:
How to Detect Bitcoin Malware on your PC - Ophtek

and as good practice download the free version of malwarebytes

 

Please post a screenshot (use the icon to the left of the video icon above) of your task manager (e.g. CTRL+SHIFT+ESC) organised so the items using most resources are at the top of the column. You can organise a column by clicking the tab at the top.