Laptop To External Monitor

[Christian Devasher]

So I have kind of what i would call a unique situation... I have a laptop (running Windows 8.1) with a broken screen. I've been using it via an external monitor, but recently decided to completely wipe the hard drive and start fresh. Only problem is that now it wont connect to the monitor and I obviously cant see anything on the screen itself. Any ideas on how i can get it to project to the monitor?

 

[getochkn]

Shouldn't need drivers. Most laptops have a key like fn+f5 to switch the external monitor on and off. This is done at a hardware level as you can do it in to view the bios.

 

[Christian Devasher]

I will give it a try, thanks for your suggestion!