This is weird 😕
The last change I have made was doing a thorough search on scandisk and defragging the entire HDD afterwards.
I've noticed now that the other monitor I have hooked up wasn't displaying anything.
Under the settings tab in display properties it shows that the "Extend my Windows desktop Onto this monitor."
box is checked yet the screen on the monitor is blank but it is lit up in the way that the monitor knows it's
receiving input because of the Hz shown on the screen in the monitor's menu as well as the resolution matching
what the computer is trying to output.

When I uncheck the box it comes on....But there's quite a few problems with leaving it like this:

For one, the monitor is not "extending" anything but mirroring exactly what I see on my laptop which is counterproductive and pointless. Secondly since it can only mirror the settings of the laptop, it is limited to the internal settings of the laptop's own monitor capabilities i.e. I am stuck using shitty 1024 by 768 pixels instead of 1280 by 1024 that my monitor is capable of doing though it would let me select 1280 by 1024 when I have the monitor enabled but it's just not putting anything out onto the screen.

Does anyone know what settings/files I may need to replace or tweak to possibly get this fixed?..
I tried reinstalling the driver for used for my monitor as well as the one used by the video adapter. What could have gone wrong?? 🙁
I would provide pictures but it seems so pointless.... I kind of explained it pretty well imo but if you guys want to see just holler.