I have Linux Mint (Cinnamon), with nvidia-340 graphics driver and I noticed after running the computer for a long time (or probably after running applications that consume a lot of memory) the screen starts flickering and afterwards many characters on the screen get scrambled as shown in the image
https://i.stack.imgur.com/PA0y2.png
till I restart the computer. Can I cure this problem without restarting?
Flickering screen and distorted characters.
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Tarek
Flickering screen and distorted characters.
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Re: Flickering screen and distorted characters.
temperature
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Tarek
Re: Flickering screen and distorted characters.
The temperature of the GPU is in the range 59-63 C while the screen is flickering. Is this normal? If not, what can I do about it?bartszu wrote:temperature
Re: Flickering screen and distorted characters.
No clue if this was solved since this is an old thread, but getting rainbow colors or flashing and random characters is a sign of a bad graphics card. It may only start doing it at higher temps, such as after powered on for a while, and it may get more severe and start doing it more frequently, but the solution is to replace your bad card.