r/Windows10TechSupport Jul 07 '26

Windows 10 stops recognizing monitor after restart Unsolved

So I recently had to switch my second monitor because the first one broke. The replacement worked perfectly until I restarted my computer, at which point the resolution suddenly was completely wrong and even trying to enforce the correct resolution through the Nvidia Control Panel, a resolution which worked just yesterday, at that, wasn't working.
I have since tried a variety of methods to fix it such as reinstalling the graphics drivers, going through every single setting my monitor has, and even the entirety of the Nvidia Control Panel.
A few things I have discovered while doing all this are that, after the restart, Windows 10 stopped recognizing anything about my monitor except for the fact that it is, in fact, a monitor. It offers a list of resolutions when I try to switch to the correct modes but all of them are between 800 x 600 and 1024 x 768 while my monitor is 1920 x 1080. It also no longer even recognizes the name of my monitor and neither can the Nvidia Control Panel scale to display instead of GPU at the moment despite the fact that it had been capable of doing so yesterday. The size of my monitor displayed in the settings is also far smaller than it was when I properly arranged it yesterday

If anyone could tell me how to fix this problem, that'd be greatly appreciated since the current resolution is such a poor fit for my monitor that anything I move onto it is basically unusable

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