Highlander 5032 player self-destruct button, have I totalled it?

[HamHappens]

This week has a wrestling match with my Highlander dvd 5032 player, anyone who has had one knows how exasperating and non-idiot proof they can be, how bad the "manual" is, with generic instructions manuals which dont even match the onscreen menus on some models, and menus formats which are tricky to navigate and change settings.

Started out I had bought a DVD box set, which the player would not play the speech track, I had no idea what the issue was, eventually someone made a suggestion that it was about the 5.1 setting, and a web page on the *5032 filled in the blanks that the unit is defaulted to 5.1 audio and wont play the speech on some DVDs, has to be shifted to L-R or similiar.

that was done, and worked,great, but while struggling with it, and the remote response is so poor on the unit it makes it easy to make mistakes, I had clumsily reset menu language to Chinese.

Now had the minor problem of switching it back, one problem, was now trying to navigate menus which have no generic symbols to give away their function, are in Chinese characters only.
And this is when tragedy struck, while in the 5th/last main tab on Set-up menu, I entered , I think, the last option down on that ladder, half-accidentally, God knows what it was,named only in chinese, but effectively some kind of "self-destruct" button obviously, all function has disappeared including the usual blue coloured stand-by screen, including any access to any menu, or any on-screen menu or setup, is now just a dark grey shapeless TV swirl.
The menu/setup graphic disappeared moments after hitting this button, and so had the "Highlander" logo stand-by blue screens.
What could this possibly be, and how do you recover it when you have no way in via remote? No response except basic mechanical functions like open and close tray stop and start disc spinning?

unless I have hit some kind of software delete , surely no permanent damage can result, anything I can do with what may still be a serviceable unit, b4 i contemplate writing it off to experience and replacing it?

[Krispy Kritter]

I've never used one of these players, but if I had to guess, I'd say you changed something in the video setup. Possibly the output format (NTSC/PAL) or the output type (DVI/S-Video/etc.).

[HamHappens]

Thanks...sounds plausible, what could I do about it?

[HamHappens]

Well, well, removing the S-vid cable at least restored a basic stand-by screen and could open menu, but I had a double-screen and a yellow P-SCAN! sign on it.

Going into the setup menu, it was the "default" button Id hit, hitting it again seems to have recovered things somewhat.

Thanks,
the thing over the S-Vid cable was the clue Id needed.
Was my last attempt with it before I went out to buy a new player, too.

[HamHappens]

and as a bonus, it has defaulted menu language back to english.

thanks all.