Laptop always turns itself off when installing Zorin OS Lite 16.03

Installing Zorin OS
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My laptop always turns itself off when installing zorin os, the installation is not finished and suddenly it turns itself off. Yes, I have followed all the instructions in the installation guide such as disabling secure boot and fast boot and creating bootable using balenaEtcher. fyi My laptop doesn't have an OS yet.

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Strange..

I see you're installing with networking - I normally don't suggest doing that as it may break the system before booting the first time lol happens to me every time I install with networking enabled; doesn't matter what distro.

Also, how much RAM do you have; and what make / model is the laptop?

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Things I would check:

  • Test RAM. Faulty RAM can cause this issue.
  • Test your hard drive. Bad sectors of blocks can create an i/o error that can shut everything down during an installation, too.
  • Check temperatures. Overheating during the installation process can cause a shutdown. You may need to clean the notebook computer vents, check thermal paste or place notebook computer on a cooling tray.
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Do you know if (or rather, have you made sure that) you have the latest UEFI/BIOS and firmwares available for the motherboard and peripherals in your pc?

The software upgrades I neglected to flash initially was a serious cause of different problems for me, not just with Zorin but with different installations as well.

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