mtbhrd

Alright, so I have a dv9500t that I recently resurrected from the dead via a heat gun reflow on the gpu (8600m gs) [RANT: These have been failing like crazy, but HP is not standing behind their product. Support Forum (over 1000 replies)]

Anyways, I've got a couple 140mm fans that I'd like to use as a cooling pad for it. I have a few old PSU's, but they are big and bulky.

I'd like a more elegant way to power these fans. Are there small power supplies I could use for this? Or is there a way to power these fans off the USB ports on the laptop?

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radodrill

The USB ports supply 5VDC. Most PC fans are designed to run on 12VDC and will not run correctly off 5V; though you can buy fans that are speced for 5V, which would be ideal for powering off of the USB.

Other options would be to get a 12VDC power brick (wall transformer), but this would mean that you'd always be tethered and couldn't run solely off of the battery power.

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