Why are my earbuds so loud with Boot Camp?

I recently installed Windows 7 Professional with Boot Camp, and when I plugged in my apple headphones I found the volume to be extremely loud. The highest I could go on the volume setting was to maybe around 10 before it got too loud. I've tried to repair the drivers (I even went so far as to redownload the support software and then repair the drivers), but they still had an extremely high volume cap. It's as though the max volume on OSX is near the minimum of Windows 7, and if I raise the volume higher on Windows 7, it goes well beyond the maximum on OSX. I realize that I can go into the mixer and change the volume settings for applications so that they do not seem as loud, but it's inconvenient to do that every time I open an application for the first time, and it doesn't eliminate the problem at the source of it all. Should I try to remove the drivers altogether and then reinstall them (which should be easy using the Boot Camp support software), or is it as simple as activating or deactivating an audio setting somewhere? I realize this is a minor problem but any help would be greatly appreciated. By the way I have a 2011 Macbook Pro 13" with an i5 processor, if that's any help.
Thanks!

Those are very, very high temperatures and very high fan speeds just trying to cool things down.
Now - which applications or processes are turning up the heat? Open Activity Monitor (Applications>Utilities) and select "All Processes" and sort by CPU %:
Then post your screenshot (http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4391) using the little camera icon in the composition bar at the top of your reply.
Clinton

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*Please note I accept no responsibility for issues occurring from the use of this guide, please use at your risk
**Please note I do not propose or support using illegal copies of Windows software or licenses
Required technical skill: minimal
Required time: approx 1-2 hours
Required items: Mac, USB drive or DVD-R
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Windows 7 Professional 32Bit: http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-59183.iso
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Windows 7 Ultimate 32Bit: http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-59463.iso
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I have tried both wireless and USB keyboards and mouse. Same failure.
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<quote>
If you run into issues with keyboard and mouse not working (due to USB 3.0 and Win 7 incompatibility), you need to run your Win 7 partition (and Win 7 installation disk/partition) in legacy mode. (I found this information at:http://twocanoes.com/winclone/support#faq123 - see "Method using Terminal"). Here you will be setting the legacy on the installation volume of win 7, not bootcamp partition (yet). After running the diskutil list find the volume with installer of Win 7, and then run the command (substituting the disk1s2 below with the information you find through diskutil on your computer:
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