So I’m just going to preface this with: what a fucking struggle that was?? It’s great because HDR was working perfectly fine but I GUESS NOT??? Fam freaked out over HDR and I panicked because I thought the GPU was finally giving up the ghost or that the TV was giving up instead
turns out it could have been the cables as I switched cables and then plugged my pc directly into the TV instead of going through the AVR. then it really may have been a TV problem because it lost ethernet connection at the same time, like the port was just dead. and the poor thing was just like, struggling to work but no graphics glitches that fam and I noticed which made me worry about the state of the GPU
but it might be a pc problem because even iGPU had some weird hiccups??? but it was worst when I tried to do HDR on my GPU,,, had to rollback drivers out of panic, then saw on reddit there was something about deleting old color profiles and it seemed to work LOL and I realized I never set an SDR profile only an HDR one…. at the same time I decided to stream to my phone so if the stream glitched out while switching to HDR it’d be the GPU for sure.
nah man now it works. baby works. it’s okay though, I ended up swapping my PSU for one that can actually handle the load lmaooooooooooo. poor baby. and the CPU and GPU were burning anyway because the dust filter was saturated. and I decided to replace the thermal paste anyway. so lol. what a time. baby works. my UPS hasn’t gone off the rails because somehow my max total usage + TV +AVR is ~850W. that was a fun monday afternoon lol. just not being able to do things. cursed pcs. i hate pcs