Fan stopped working

[shulman]

Suddenly whenever turning on my HP Pavilion 1000 laptop, a message appears that a fan stopped working but if I press Enter, I can go online. Why did the fan stop working? I never mistreated or dropped the unit. I notice it gets very hot. The PC is about 4 years old. Any advice?

[soybean]

Replace the fan.   You can buy them from various local retailers i many cities and online retailers.

Edit: Besides replacing the fan, you may need to do some troubleshooting to determine what causes the computer to run hot.  Otherwise, you'll be in the same situation again. 

[DaveLembke]

I'm actually surprised that the system doesnt shut itself down. Most systems have fan installed that if the system notices that the fan isnt spinning it will just shut itself down before getting hot as a means to protect from a thermal melt down.

Given that this system allows you to bypass the issue and run it potentially fan-less, I would avoid using your laptop this way as for you can stress components with the excess heat that the system cant get rid of. Performance of the laptop also might come to  crawl as the APU or CPU thermal throttles itself ( underclocks itself ) to try to run cooler and not roast the processor.

[stuart85]

You need to replace your fan soon otherwise motherboard will be effected.

[patio]

Who's feeding the parrots again ? ?