I just searched the last year of posts and find nothing discussed on the problem I am having with lm-sensors. I have a AMD 5400+ on an M3A Asus mother board. We have been living with a very noisy CPU fan so today I finally got around to doing something about it. First, I got a new heat sink, a Thermaltake TR2-R1 and it is a big improvement. I checked the temp with sensors and it runs about the same, about 30 idle and 40-45 under load. (The bios reports over 50c on boot up. What's up with that? I guess an error in the bios).<div>
<br></div><div>The problem is with trying to get lm-sensors to work. I installed all the programs and got as far as running pwmconfig. All looked good, it controlled the CPU fan and did a detailed profile. It got very quiet at a setting of 180. But when it got to the part about testing what setting will not start the fan, it didn't change the fan speed. And when I created the fancontrol file and re-booted, the fan is always at max speed, which is 1400RPM.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So one level of the program controls the fan speed, but when it comes down to it, something is different and the fan speed is not controlled. I should point out that this fan has 3 pins and not 4 so that may be part of the problem but the fan was being controlled by the first part of pwmconfig so I don't understand what is going on.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any help out there? I would greatly improve the WAF if I could get that fan down to about 1000RMP when the CPU is at 1000GHz and doing nothing. I don't care how loud the fan is when we are watching something because the sound of the show covers it up.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyone understand what I am doing wrong?</div><div><br></div><div>Allen</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>