The laptop isn't even a year old. I never use the laptop monitor it is 24-7 connected to my LCD TV. I just wanna make sure when I go forward to install WIN7 I am going to able to see. UBUNTU is a horrid awful slow OS that I have nothing good to say about. As I say I just wanna be sure I'll be able to see my reinstall of WIN7 or its almost impossible to do blind.