G510 laptop screen blinks

I have the G510 laptop and my screen just suddenly started blinking, like to a blue screen and comes back to the desktop. The laptop is running but I cannot click on anything or if I can, it is not working or is super slow. I haven't installed anything on it and everything seems to be up-to-date. Please help if anyone can. I would like to try to fix it first or have an idea why it's doing that before contacting support. Thank you!

hi pinkdaisies,
Welcome to the Forums.
From your description, it looks like the explorer.exe is crashing - similar to this thread.
Just to check, are you running any specific application when this problem occurs (eg. watching a youtube video, playing a game, etc.) or does it happen even after a cold restart and leave the machine on idle?
Things that you can try:
1. Boot the machine in Safe Mode with Networking and observe if you still get the same problem (note that some applications may not run properly on Safe Mode)
2. If the machine works fine on Safe Mode with Networking, try the following perform a clean boot and observe the machine in normal mode (this will temporarily disable services and startup items running in the background).
3. If the machine came with an Intel+AMD display adapter, try to install the latest display drivers from the G510 download page.
Regards
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