Screen Flashs Off/On when Typing. A517-51G-52RE Aspire 5

When typing on my laptop randomly my screen will flash like it turned off and on quickly. It doesn't happen all the time so I can't exactly figure out how to consistently make it happen but it seems to happen when I type on or one key away from the letter T.

The only changes I have made to the hardware is changed the HDD for a SSD but that was two months ago and I have been experiencing this happen only in the past week.
BIOS is up to date and all drivers from the last that I checked.

During the creation of this message, it flashed twice on me. Once on the word "typing" and the other on "letter"...

Any ideas would be great.

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Commodore_1995#

Hello! Does this happen when you use the notebook only on the battery, or only on the power adapter? Have you tried resetting the internal battery?

MHo27

egydiocoelho said:

Hello! Does this happen when you use the notebook only on the battery, or only on the power adapter? Have you tried resetting the internal battery?

It is plugged in all the time. So only on Power adapter. Is reseting the internal battery a easy thing to do? Simple as pushing reset through the tiny hole on the back and turning laptop back on?

Commodore_1995#

Check this video:
reset

MHo27

egydiocoelho said:

Check this video:
reset

Did as the video said after restart. Still flashing randomly.

Any other ideas...

Commodore_1995#

Try uninstalling and deleting the current audio driver and make sure the problem persists with the standard windows driver:

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MHo27

egydiocoelho said:

Try uninstalling and deleting the current audio driver and make sure the problem persists with the standard windows driver:

After restarted I typed "poiuytrewqwertyuiop1234567890poiuytrewqtyuiopPOIU" once I hit the last couple keys it did it.

And did it 2 more times typing this message.

Commodore_1995#

Have you tried removing the keyboard driver from the device manager? Have you checked that the same problem occurs with an external keyboard?

MHo27

egydiocoelho said:

Have you tried removing the keyboard driver from the device manager? Have you checked that the same problem occurs with an external keyboard?

External keyboard works no problem.

I have removed Keyboard driver problems still exists.

New issue: As iI was typing and the screen was turning on and off probably 3-4 times in less than 20 seconds my computer actually went to sleep.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

MHo27

MHo27 said:

egydiocoelho said:

Have you tried removing the keyboard driver from the device manager? Have you checked that the same problem occurs with an external keyboard?

External keyboard works no problem.

I have removed Keyboard driver problems still exists.

New issue: As iI was typing and the screen was turning on and off probably 3-4 times in less than 20 seconds my computer actually went to sleep.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

Just update again. After one more restart, I have not had my screen flash on me so I am guessing the removing the keyboard driver from the device manager was the solution.

I will monitor for the week and if it happens again I will let you know.

Thanks again for your help!