Flickering screen and system is shutting down

General Help
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I installed zorin os on my old pc 2 months ago. The screen was flickering a little but it was running ok. Yesterday it start to shut down as soon as i open any application.

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Are you using AMD or Nvidia Graphics card?

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No im not using graphic cards

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Are you able to boot into any desktop at all or to the TTY terminal screen?

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Yes. It only turns off whenever i try to open any applications like files google chrome

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Can you open terminal (keyboard shortcut ctrl+alt+t)?

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Yes. Only terminals working

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Can you open terminal and run:

sudo lshw -C video

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I log on to my pc and now its working except the trembling screen now and then.

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Let's focus on the flickering since the other issue may recur.

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Well it was always there since i installed zorin os

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Is this a notebook? (I refuse to use the term laptop as it engenders improper use). If so the screen inverter may be failing and you did say it was old. My good lady's machine, a desktop flickers on Apps opening, mainly SoftMaker Office, and it is from 2006 running MX-Linux, 2Gb RAM and 256 Mb 8x AGP graphics. If you know the specs of your machine that might help.

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Its not a notebook it has 3.4gb ram, intel 945G graphics. I noticed thats the the screen flickers a little whenever i click on the screen or open any application. For some time i was using only 1 ram in my computer. i wasn't having this problem then.

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See if this helps:

iommu=igfx_off

" 1. Open a terminal application
2. copy sudo nano /etc/default/grub in the terminal

  1. press Ctrl + Shift + v to paste
  2. Find the line starting with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT and append intel_iommu=igfx_off to its end
  3. GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash intel_iommu=igfx_off"
  4. press ctrl + x, then y, followed by enter to save and exit
  5. run sudo update-grub in the terminal
  6. reboot

You can confirm your modifications after the reboot by running cat /proc/cmdline and looking for the parts you added.

Hope that helps and feel free to reply with any more questions you have."

[Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/exovc6/comment/fgciyte/]

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It did not work.

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How old is the screen? Have you tried a different monitor cable?

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Its not that old. It works fine when i lower the screen resolution

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Are you using Fractional Scaling?

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No, i just changed the resolution to 1680x1050

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In terms of system shut down, this might help you find the cause: