Cpu fan works in new rig, but not old rig?

newbjumper

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Hello,

I have a some-year old case fan that I managed to turn into a cpu fan in my new rig. It was working, but then I moved it to the old rig because ever since I got another hyper 212 evo I put the 2 fans that came with the hyper 212 evo's in the new rig, and the old fan into my old rig. I booted up my old rig a few mins ago to set up a server, then I went to get some food. I come back 1 hour later to team viewer into the old computer (it was still on) and it wasn't working, so I went to the old computer to turn it off when I noticed the fan was not spinning. I touched the cooler and it was hot-shower hot (if that makes sense) I didn't smell any smoke so I don't think it burnt out, but should I wait a few hours until turning it back on or replace the fan with one of the hyper 212 evo's fans?