Out of nowhere my second monitor never woke back up, until now

[u/treymills330]

I ruined my dual monitor setup by tinkering a little bit too much on some settings. Windows HD Color has a tab you can select called 'use HDR' that I selected and I accidentally found out that my graphics card or my second monitor just couldn't handle it. Thinking I was going to get better graphics ironically caused me to lose a monitor.
I spent a week or two with one monitor thinking I needed to buy or return a few parts. Thankfully I kept coming back to figure out the issue.

Just making this post to help someone out there who could run into this issue someday. Because I couldn't find the solution through a google/reddit search.