Fan constantly running

**evilbrent** · October 31st, 2012

I've noticed the fan constantly running on my AMD Athlon(tm) X4 620 Processor. I've tried to find out the temp using

Code:

lm-sensor

, and from Hardware Sensors Monitor, but they both say "no sensors found".

I ran

Code:

sudo sensors-detect

and it does say

AMD Family 10h thermal sensors... Success!
(driver `k10temp')

but then:

Warning: the required module k10temp is not currently installed
on your system. If it is built into the kernel then it's OK.
Otherwise, check http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/Devices for
driver availability.

So now I've gone to that page and I see the driver that I want and I don't know what to do. How do I install the driver?

I'm guessing this is a hardware problem - and what I'm first going to do is pull the box out and open it up and see if it's full of fluff - but it's worrying me that I can't find the temp senesors, I'm thinking that maybe the fan is running constantly because the computer can't find the sensors either??

Any help would be appreciated.