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I am trying to observe if software can damage hardware today or not.For that I choose that choosing to shut the computer fans would be a nice idea(else I would have preferred crashing the harddisk).I need to know the following:
First of all, the fans spin for a reason: complex electronics overheat rather quickly. It would be easier to look into a specialized tool that does this, such as SpeedFan for Windows.
On the other hand, if you really want to do it, there are ways – however, they are mostly vendor- and product-specific. For Acer laptops on Linux, see e.g. this – note that it’s very low-level (involves BIOS calls) and if it breaks, you get to keep both parts.