Windows 10: Windows 10 Freezing when plugging in 2nd monitor.

So to start this off earlier today I overclocked my 2nd 60 Hz monitor to a refresh rate of 72 HZ which was stable and I was playing games throughout the day. I left my PC alone for a bit and as expected I came back to it in sleep mode, when I attempted to wake it up by moving the mouse/pretty keys nothing happened so I was forced to hard reset.

When my PC boosted back up everything seemed fine but after the windows logo it froze on a black screen, so after a couple reboots later of switching things around I unplugged the monitor that was overclocked and it booted into windows just fine, so I'm assuming it's the monitor.

So I need to change this monitor back to 60 Hz but the only way to access the display settings is to plug it in but if I do plug it in my whole PC becomes a brick (even if it's already booted the mouse and keyboard will stop responding when I plug it in and I will need to hard reset.)

TL;DR:​ how can I reset the display properties of a monitor that's not plugged in.

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Dual monitors now working correctly

When i plug in up my 2nd monitor the 1st monitor turns on and off, I am unable to do anything to get it stop I must unplug 2nd monitor. 1st monitor is connected with VGA 2nd monitor is connected with DVI worked great until I went to windows 10. Please
help

 

Windows 10 update help

Also it was windows 7. First when it downloaded 10, it showed a black screen then I plugged in another monitor and then it showed up. I closed out the 2nd monitor, as this is a laptop, then the endless rebbe restart thing happens over and over.

 

Did a clean install of my current Nvidia driver & it cleared the custom Nvidia 72 Hz preset.

 

Every Monitor has a reset button all it needs is power, no need to connect it to PC if yours does not then your a brave man overclocking your old junk screen because most new /10 years and forth) have a failsafe so you do not damage it *Biggrin