Hello all.
I think I've just managed to break my laptop fan and was hoping for a bit of advice. I've always found the buildup of dust to be a bit of an issue with laptops so I've always used a piece of equipment normally used to blow dust off DSLR Camera Sensors to blow the dust out. It delivers a short, precise blow of air when squeezed:
I've done this for a while and did so a few minutes ago but seem to have broke my laptop in the process
I squeezed the blower, then a fair amount of thick dust / soot came out. I'm not sure if this was caused by me or already inside my laptop. However, now my laptop fan doesn't spin at all and is silent.
I can browse fine but I think if I try to do anything else my laptop will just go into meltdown mode. Is there any software available to manually 'force' your fans to run at a certain speed (so I can test if they are completely kaput or not). I downloaded SpeedFan but it's only showing me CPU temps and no fan data.
Or, is my only solution to run my laptop down to a computer shop and see if they can fix it (how easy is a broken fan to replace?).
Thanks again
PS - Is using my laptop while the fan is broke a good idea? or is there a chance it'll completely die on me if I do so?