Solved! Acer Aspire VX slow, screen flashing black

[Jbro89]

Model is VX5-591G-58S3
I just bought this laptop used. I used windows recovery tool delete everything after I purchased it just to be safe. I noticed it was slow right away, takes a while to boot up, freezes for a few seconds at a time when using, and will inevitably go into a black screen flashing pattern. It does it every time I try to use it, usually only a few minutes after booting. If it hit ctrl alt delete the flashing is not still present, but resumes when I go back to desktop. Laptop is basically unusable at this point.

At this point all I have installed in Steam, GOG, and firefox.

The image below is an error I've seen pop up, not sure if its the cause or related.

Suggestions welcome, thanks.

 

[webworkings]

If you used the that to clear it out, you likely didn't completely clear it. You may want to try a full clean install, from a new version of the OS, via USB, to really set it straight.

Then if you have problems, it is likely not the software.

You can get the OS here... https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

 

[Saga Lout]

It may not be too late simply to create a new User Account then restart and log in using that account. Go back to Control Panel>User Accounts and delete the previous owner's account, removing all the files.