Bad cooling fan?

DMGrier

DMGrier

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So a friend gave me a call saying that when his computer boots up it says "a cooling fan is not working properly and may cause problems", no error code. The computer he says gets hot and shuts down. I am assuming bad cooling fan however I have never had that message just a computer over heat. So could the fan be bad or is it the connection which the fan that plus in went bad? Just would hate to tell him to buy a new fan when there is more wrong then then the fan. Thanks for any input.
 
I've seen errors like that. Others say a thermal event has occurred. His fan is probably bad. The connection is only bad if the fan is actually spinning even though he gets that error.
 
Well he was suppose to come over today but I guess he took it to someone he know who tried opening the notebook and now they cannot get it to power back on. The cooling issue doesn't surprise me being a refurb Hp with AMD processor.

What I need now which I do not have is something where I can take out the internal HDD and hook up preferably via USB to my notebook to pull off all the old data to put on his new computer I guess he is ordering today. I have seen the device but cannot remember what it is called, could you help me find a nice cheap one online I can order?
 
Hey man thanks for all the input, I picked the top one you picked just since it seems to support more in case I need anything else in the future.
 
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