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CPU Fan Started Spinning Wrong Direction!!

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MY CPU FAN WAS WORKING FINE BLOWING AIR INTO THE HEATSINK..RECENTLY I VE HEARD THE FUN WORKING HARDER AND NOISER. WHEN I OPEN THE CASE I VE SEEN THE CPU FAN SPINNING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION, BLOWING AIR OUTWARD ..AWAY FROM THE HEATSINK

IS THERE A WAY TO FIX THE SPINNING DIRECTION OF THE FAN I WONDER. I PREFER FAN BLOWING AIR TOWARDS THE HEATSINK, LIKE BEFORE..
ANY HELP APPRECIATED,
THANKS
 
i wish it was impossible dodge..
so i wouldnt have been spending time trying to fix it!!
 
Turn off your computer.

Take out the fan.

Unplug the power from your HDD.

Turn the computer on.

Feel which direction its blowing.

Turn off the computer by holding the power button until it cuts the power.

Install the fan in the direction you want it to blow air.

Plug the power back into your HDD.

Turn on your computer.



Your ordinary computer fan cannot go in the reverse direction because the electricity current through the circuits diode only flows in one direction. You'd have to physically flip the diode on the circuitry and so forth to make the fan go in reverse.
 
Repost this when your caps lock gets fixed.
 
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