HDMI not being picked up by win10

Well, lets just jump right into it, earlier this week, my HDMI monitor was working a-ok, (scepter e22 i think) to the best of my knowledge a update decided to install itself overnight, and then, low and behold, the laptop wont even detect that a device is connected, not in device manager or devices and printers however, when i go into display properties, it allows me to change the res and size of something, but it wont tell me what. HDMI is working, i booted into a live Linux mint, and it worked without a hitch, i went in and uninstalled the display driver(Intel hd graphics) then reinstalled, booted in safe mode, nada. nothing works, what has the internet got for me?

vga is working fine, only hdmi seems to have taken the crap

have you tried troubleshooting the HDMI? most of the time its the cable gone broken. 2nd best guess is to the drivers. have you installed some USB-display drivers awhile? have you checked (WIN+P) that you are actually projecting stuff to the monitor? :)