So I have been getting green screen of death on this new computer build of mine. This new computer is the first time I have run linux as I am NOT paying Microsoft any more of my money. The green screens started happening immediately I had originally thought it was due to old drivers at first but I updated every last thing I could find and it is still happening. AI told me that it could be a corrupted file system and suggested a command but it did not seem to do anything and I do not know why. Please help with this and any other suggestions on why I may be greenscreening. It is very intermittent, if I am online for 17 hours it will happen once or twice. Anyway, here is the command the AI gave me and its results…
fsck / btrfs --check --repair fsck from util-linux 2.40.4 If you wish to check the consistency of a BTRFS filesystem or repair a damaged filesystem, see btrfs(8) subcommand ‘check’.
Probably a super newb question but I am a super newb here in Linux lol
X870 RX9070 XT Ryzen 9800X3D
Thanks in advance
Run a LiveUSB of anything else. If it works, install that instead.
Stop listening to AI.
The best advice was gratuitous.
If ai gives you something to try it’s better than nothing. But I was going to suggest another distro if someone else hadn’t. Thanks ai…
Doing nothing is way better than running random commands suggested by AI, or anyone for that matter, if you don’t know what it does. I’ve seen AI suggest to run
rm -rf ~/, which is obviously never a good idea.What would that command do? Not obvious to this newb. Format everything?
I think there may be some safeguards in place so that it doesn’t, but yeah. It reads something like (rm) remove/delete, (-rf) remove/delete the folder, (~/) do this recursively until you hit root (Unix equivalent of C:).
I may have some of that parsed incorrectly, I haven’t taken the plunge into Linux quite yet. As soon as I figure out what I did wrong in my current hardware build I will install Linux. Probably Mint.
It wouldn’t remove /.
®e(m)ove
-®ecusively
(f)orce
~ /home/thisuser
/ just reinforces that we are referring to the ~ directory itself
I should have phrased that better. I agree copy and pasting commands off of the internet is a terrible idea. Be they from ai or from a forum or wiki. By ‘try’ I meant look into. As in explore that path. To you and I ‘try’ means something different than a new user. I will be more careful in the future
I get ai being an existential threat to most of the denizens of lemmy (overwhelmingly techy and left leaning) but ai vastly simplified the Linux install process for me. I took a c++ class 10 years ago that I failed and that was about the extent of my programming knowledge so without AI it would’ve been a nightmare trying to get everything set up. Gemini remembered what distro I was installing, my drives and their /dev/ name or whatever, how I should insert those into fstab, why grub wasn’t picking up my nobara install, etc. AI might be useless in other situations but computer commands and troubleshooting I think it’s the one place it excels.
Tell us more about what’s happening, is the whole monitor turning green or just parts of it?
Does it stay green until you do something, or does it go away on its own?
Does it happen only with certain games or applications, or does it happen regardless of what’s running?
And please for the love of fuck do not run any commands you don’t personally understand, especially if it came from an “ai”. Don’t poison your brain (and the planet) with “ai” bullshit, please!
Solid green screen across the whole thing. The speaker starts humming the mouse and keyboard do not do anything and it does not resolve on its own (not within five minutes or so anyway). I have to do a hard reboot, then it works fine for the next 7-14 hours and then it happens again. Does not matter what I am doing. I have had it go green when I was reading plain text and not even touching the inputs.
Is the sound coming from the motherboard speaker or through a sound card or display?
From the MB to the external box speaker on the desk.
So I was wrong, sound was wired through the display via HDMI to the MB. I switched the speaker over to the MB directly and plugged the monitor into the GFX card instead of the MB, see if this changes anything.
Your monitor always needs to be plugged into the graphics card. If you plug it in via the motherboard, then your GPU is doing nothing, as it can’t backfeed to that motherboard connector. CPUs often have their own graphics built-in, and that’s what yours would have been using instead.
You’re going to get much better performance now too if the monitor was plugged into the motherboard before
