It is the blower motor resister that shorted open. it is retangular in shape and is usually by the blower motor behind the glove box. It have two or sometimes 3 bolts holding in it.
If you are saying that the blower motor only works on the high speed setting, then the Blower Motor Resistor is defective and needs replacing.
Check for a bad blower resistor at blower motor
You need to replace blower motor resistor.
Blower resistor pack broken?
Normally when a heater blower motor only works on the High setting, it is caused by a defective Blower Motor Resistor Pack. The fix is to, Replace it. In very rare instances it can also be a defective blower motor speed control switch, but rarely.
The blower motor resistor pack is defective. Replace it.
the resistor for the blower motor is busted blower works on high with out it
The Blower Motor Resistor Pack is defective. Follow the wires from the Blower Motor to find it.
The blower motor speed resistor is burned out. You can replace only the resistor but the resistor probably burned out because the blower motor is going bad. If you want to fix it for good, replace both the blower motor and blower motor speed resistor.
Check the resistor at the blower motor
blower resistor
If the blower motor only works on high speed, which in your case is speed 5, it is a definite that the blower motor resistor needs to be replaced. When choosing all the other speeds the current travels through a certain resistor, which in turn slows down the speed of the blower motor. High speed is direct 12 volts to the blower motor. So when it works only on high speed there is a 99.9% chance that the blower motor resistor is shorted or blown and needs to be replaced I have a 99 grand am as well and I have heat but it only works on setting 5. I replaced the resistor last night and it was horrible(broken, melted, discolored) Put the new one in and still no heat on any setting but 5. I am going to replace the climate control panel to see if that is the issue in my car. If you have no heat you may want to consider adding antifreeze. Sometimes the grand am's have bad coolant sensors.