Fan Breakdown

[CartoonFan]

My old laptop had a glitch.

It had this glitch twice in the entire time I owned it. So it had the glitch about once a year.

All video games would start lagging in waves. It would go like "fine, fine, fine, fine, LAGGGGG, fine, fine, fine, fine, LAGGGGG, fine, fine... etc... I had to send my laptop in and have a couple hardware pieces replaced to fix the problem.

The first time I never checked to see what caused the problem, but the second time I looked at the repair log. They replaced/repaired the fan.

So, now we know that the fan was the cause of the glitch. And the fan broke down twice.

Now I'm wondering something. Could the fan breaking down be caused by a detachable USB hard drive? Roughly 160 gigs?

If so, do you think the same might happen if I use the detachable USB hard drive with my NEW laptop? I would have it plugged into the system all the time, because I would install games on it.

[Link]

No, it wouldn't.

[haloOfTheSun]

Even if the hard drive COULD do that, why would it matter how much it could store?

[Link]

Even if the hard drive COULD do that, why would it matter how much it could store?

Different voltage i guess?

[monkofevil]

Even if the hard drive COULD do that, why would it matter how much it could store?

Different voltage i guess?

Although possible, I would think it rather unlikely.
All usb 2.0 devices are built the same, delivering power through the outer two prongs, and data through the inner two. I've never heard of the power requirements being different for any usb device. That was something (as far as I know) that could only be accomplished by firewire.

But in answer to AnimeFan's question? Not even close, you might have just had a short somewhere, and the fan was sensing that as heat that needed to be cooled, and pulling way too much current to do that. And dying.
Not the hard drive's fault.