USB Cooling fan

I recently bought a USB "cooling fan" for my old laptop and tried it to my macbook pro to test if its working, just when i plugged it suddenly my macbook shutdown and won't start anymore. I tried the cooling fan on my old laptop and it's working properly. Did some of you experienced this?

After many years of service case fans die an ugly death and there is nothing for them but replacement. As you seem to be doing many upgrades, a new fan would be advisable anyway.
I have seen the LED fan mod done before. You may have to cut the connector from the old fan and adapt the new one with it though. The MASSCOOL LED fan
would seem to be a good candidate as it has a quite good CFM rating for it's given noise level.
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Hi @EventideOne ,
Thank you for visiting the HP Support Forums and Welcome. I have looked into your issue about your HP Pavilion dv6-6b47dx Notebook and issues with the fan. Here is a document on overheating which could possible cause a fan issue or will cause the Notebook to heat up fast.
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If that does not help at the end of the document it shows you to do a hardware test.
Please note remove any and all USB devices before troubleshooting. Disconnect all non-essential devices
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Hey, everyone. I've had my HP Notebook 2000 for a few years and I've discovered my first major issue just a few days ago when the cooling fan stopped working. I don't really mind it too much because I have a USB-powered cooling fan that my laptop rests on, and it does a pretty good job. My entire laptop remains at about the same average tempurature.
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No you can't. Reason it probably shuts down is because cpu temps peak over safety threshhold at times thus it shuts down to prevent damage.
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I expect a new fan & new thermal paste & shimming along with cleaning would do wonders for running temps & long term health of the notebook.
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> I am fearing now that this may in fact be due to recent updates to Lion (10.7.3) or FCP X (10.0.3)
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If the hard drive is making some noise, that is not a
good sign. It might mean that your hard drive is
about to have a hardware failure. I would make sure
to backup your important files to another hard drive
or to CDs. If you cannot get the hard drive replaced,
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hard drive. Of course, that may make your iBook much
less portable.
How old is your iBook? Which model do you have? (What
is the processor speed? You can check in "About This
Mac" in the Apple menu.)
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As Akuma said it could be that you have to more dust in the cooling ventilators or that the fan doesnt work properly.
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I would like to ask a few questions abou my system: first of all, the cooling fan is running in my opinion too often: almost continuously, with brakes of 2-3 seconds. Is this normal?
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> I would like to ask a few questions about my system: first of all, the cooling fan is running in my opinion too often: almost continuously, with brakes of 2-3 seconds. Is this normal?
Im an owner of a Satellite A210. Its similar to the A215. The A210 is a European model and the A215 belongs to the US notebook series.
I have noticed the same on my A210 and I think its normal behavior.
> But the curious thing is that so named "Core" temperature is oscillating from the beginning between 45deg and over 52deg! The fan starts each time the core temperature is rising over 50deg and stops when the temperature reaches 45deg. Is this behavior normal???
The CPU temperature of 40-60deg is nothing unusual.
The temperature could arise up to 70-80degrees while playing a game. So dont worry about the temperature.
The cooling modules are controlled by BIOS. The fan table is stored in the BIOS and it contains informations about temperature limits and the cooling usage.
If a certain temperature level was reached the cooling module starts to rotate with a certain speed.
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