To me, this does not sound as if it's software related at all. Hardware issues are what I first thought of; that is your CPU cooler setup. My first suspicion would be dust and lint accumulation inside the notebook's case. Get a can of any brand of "air duster" and thoroughly blast out your case's vents, intakes, etc. Try that and see what results you get from visible dust blown out and then boot it up and see what happens then.
I recommend downloading a handy utility called:
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Hmonitor 4.5.3.2 (January 2012)
OVERVIEW
This program monitors and displays hardware parameters
collected by the several sensor chips, installed on certain
motherboards. Program can monitor temperatures
of CPU/motherboard/graphics cards/HDD, voltages and cooler fans RPMs.
Program can be used with any modern Microsoft Windows operating
system (Windows 7/Vista/2008/2003/XP/2000/NT4) on X86/X64 based platform.
KEY FEATURES
- ultra wide range of MB models supported;
- low resources usage;
- dynamic system tray status icon;
- current values are visible as a hint;
- detailed/warning log files can be produced;
- customizable alarms/user application execute;
- HDD S.M.A.R.T. and temperature monitoring (Pro license need);
- Graphics cards hardware monitoring (Pro license need);
- PerfMon/WMI/SNMP support to check the data (Commercial license need);
INSTALLATION
To perform installation you should be logged on as a member of administrators group.
To start installation, simply run setup.exe file.
After successful installation, you may launch hmonitor.exe without rebooting.
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Another good one is: Real Temp
http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/
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