Argh - please help with Win10 issue

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Hi all, long story short - my PC is no longer displaying on my TV since I tried to turn on HDR, I can't seem to get this thing back to square one...full details below;

I have been playing RDR2 on my Windows 10 PC and have a new TV (Samsung S95C). It's in game mode but the TV isn't displaying HDR and HDR is not an option within the graphics settings.

So I did a bit of digging and it seems I should enable HDR on the PC, then boot the game and select HDR...so I went into the display setting and switched on HDR and now I have no signal!

To resolve this I have tried using option 5 on this video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ1IAT7WrnY

I'm stuck though because when I do the last step it just reboots into no display.

What happened to the good old days of pressing F8, booting into safe mode and then rebooting and voila!? :(

In case the info is needed I using a 3070...the HDMI does go through a switch which is apparently fully HDR compliant, trying that is my next step but it is a faff hence trying to see if I'm missing something first...pretty sure in the old days you could 'wind back' the previous setting changes quite easily!?

Thanks in advance for any advice :)
 
The best way to get in safe mode these days is to turn off the computer as soon as you see the Windows logo. Do this 2-3 times and Windows should enter Recovery mode.
I'm in safe mode, I can't get out of it - in the video I link to when I follow the instructions the reboot takes =me back to square one (i.e. I can't get into Windows)
 
Cheers guys, seems my PC is totally fx'd - lol, I can't believe it, all I did was try to put HDR on :(

Anyway, after much frustration and failed restore attempts I lost internet and was getting all sorts of errors so I'm just going to re-install...hopefully nothing lost
 
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haha, managed to re-create the issue, re-installed windows, downloaded the 3070 drivers, selected HDR and it's fx'd again!!

At least I know exactly how to re-create (and it wasn't a one-off) and can start to investigate.
 
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