Screen gone crazy (pink lines+ flickering)

I was playing dota2 and suddenly screen went bad for no reason at all, what I saw is massive horizontal pink lines with some green highlights too and everything looks like its moving up and down in super speed. Its like watching a 3d movie without 3d glasses but worse. This problem is there on boot screen also not just on windows login.
I am clueless cause both gpu's seem to be detected as working in device manager and i never rough used my laptop or even removed those plastic cover it came with.
I need to get this fixed fast, what do I do? I doubt long hours of keeping the laptop running can cause this! Can it? All i do is email and small ms office.
List of things i tried:
Restarted, updated AMD drivers chipset since my card is AMD, disabled Intel and AMD gpu one by one and restarted.

@dizzy123 ,
Hello and thank you for posting on the HP support forums. What generally causes this is the cable that connects the screen to the motherboard.  It happens over time due to opening and closing and causing the cord to flex.
So that I am better to help you with your issue could you please post back with your systems key information.
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