Dell inspiron D610 fan wont turn on

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It sounds like your system might be running hot. Do you hear the fan running? If so it will turn on after it has cooled off, but once it gets hot it will turn off. If you immediately try to turn it back on, it won't work until the system has cooled off.

Laptops overheat because of the following problems:
1. Dust has clogged the Fans, Vents, CPU & Heat Sink Area
2. The FAN has stopped working
3. The Thermal Paste around the CPU and HeatSink has either dried up or is too thin to keep the system cool.

Try a can of compressed air and blow out the areas you can get to around the vents. You'll have to take the laptop apart to get to the Fan, CPU and Heatsink

jf the fan does not work, it will really cause the laptop to get hot. let it cool down for a longer period of time before you try to power it on again, then if it boots to Windows, update its BIOS. if that does not help, you'll need to get it serviced and the fan and even motherboard may need to be replaced including other components that may have failed

Generally updating the BIOS helps, if issue still occurs, replacing the heatsink and fan will resolve
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/latd610/en/sm_en/thermal.htm#wp1000001
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You can try installing this program that controls the fans on a Dell laptop. If this does not work you have a hardware issue with either the fans or the main board.http://www.diefer.de/i8kfan/index.html

you can download this to see if it is getting really hot first.
http://www.diefer.de/software/i8kfangui31.exe
after you install it you can go into the settings and turn on the monitors for the cpu, gpu, ram, and sometimes the hard drive. you can turn on the fan monitors too to make sure they are working. you can control the fans as well. i use it on all my dell laptops. it its not freezing becuse of overheating then it might be the hard drive or you might need to reinstall windows

there could be a posibility that the harddrive of the laptop is damage and needs to be replace. you already tried to reinstall the operating system but it still wont work in that case try to replace your harddrive.

Can you select "safe mode" from the boot menu? As much as I hate to recommend it, I think you should wipe the hard drive and reinstall Windows (I hope you backed up everything of value on your computer). If you can't successfully reinstall the operating system, then I'd say, in all likelihood, you have a defective hard drive which would need to be replaced.

Remove the hard drive, then see if you can boot to the XP CD. If you can, then the Hard DIsk Drive has most likely failed. Reseat the HDD and try booting to CD again. If problem comes back, try a new hard drive.

I would get a new fan. you can get a new fan and heatsink by clicking here

Really hope this helps you.