Question Laptop with fried cooling fan connector

[Master_12]

Hi, I have a lenovo t410s and I was doing a project of taking it apart from its chassis and making it into a silent media PC when I accidentally shorted out the laptop fan port's pins for a split second (I think that is what happened but I don't know 100% since I was looking away).

Now, whenever the laptop turns on, it displays "fan error" and the cooling fan does not work. It also immediately shuts down following the error.

I have tried modding and putting a different fan but no luck. With multi-meter, turns out there is no power at all in the fan connector when the laptop turns on. Its a 3 pin connector and none of the pins receive any voltage.

I would be fine with using external fans but the laptop doesn't let me get past boot due to the "fan error." I can't enter bios either since that comes after the fan error screen.

Any advice? Thanks.

 

[Lutfij]

Seems like you knocked out the point where the power is delivered to the fan via the motherboard. You will now need o inspect the board around the CPU fan connector inch by inch to verify which power delivery module you knocked out. Hopefully you can replace it with some (desoldering and)soldering.

 

[Master_12]

Update: 4 years later lmao, I was able to bypass this issue by pressing Esc whenever it said "fan error." omg I feel really dumb rn but hope it helps someone!!