IMac screen has been flickering, does anyone know the problem?, iMac screen has been flickering, does anyone know the problem?

Recently my iMac screen has started to flickering does anyone know the problem?
Any help appreciated

Bad power, unshielded speakers, improper hardware installs which lead to loose cables, can all cause this.

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I followed the steps to unlock the .icc file in the "getinfo" screen then went on clicking repair in colorsync utility.
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... and it keeps like this sine die.
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3     'cprt'     'text'     35     Copyright ASCII Text String
New to mac so I really don't know what to do.
I didn't get this message so far. What i did before getting this message was to open a jpeg file. I wanted to edit it so when i did right click on the file i went to open with, and colorsync came as an option; so i chose it.
Then this message started comming up.
Is there anything i can do?
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Naresh: Hi Mary.
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IMac screen has been flickering, does anyone know the problem?, iMac screen has been flickering, does anyone know the problem?

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