My laptop can support 2 fans. Though, even with both fans, it only wants to use 1.

[JoelC11]

I decided to replace my laptop's single wide fan with 2 of the smaller model fans.
(Which were meant for the Pavilion models with discrete graphics.) However, my laptop only uses 1.

I know one of the problems deals with something within my system. My laptop is APU based also, meaning that my CPU and GPU are in a single unit. Therefore, 1 fan would be sufficient to cool the system, but I wanted both fans to for better cooling.

Are there any other solutions to my problem? If so, thank you so much!

Here's a video of my problem also. (You can also notice how my laptop supposedly detects the other fan, but decides to stick with the main 1st slot and ignore the other.)

[Echo_Lake · Accepted solution]

@JoelC11

Thank you for posting on the HP Support Community.
 

Don't worry as I'll be glad to help, 

I appreciate your efforts to try and resolve the issue, as we have limited support boundaries in the support community as of now.

I would request you to contact our Support and our Support Engineers should be able to sort this out. HP Support can be reached by clicking on the following link:  www.hp.com/contacthp/

Note: Whenever new parts are added to the system board, the BIOS needs to be tattooed with new details. 

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[JoelC11]

Thank you so much! 

[Echo_Lake]

@JoelC11

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