My laptops screen is completely dead now. Hp pavilion g6 model with i5 2520m, radeon 7870m dgpu, 4gb ram. Laptop chasis is broken inside near the screw area hence 2 screws came out of place and can't be screwed in. Battery dead too. Internal keyboard malfunctions. I want turn it into a desktop and I'll need all your help and opinion. I plan to put a desktop grade cooler for the cpu cooling. It will keep it silent and due to its better cooling support, cpu will have sustained boost. I want to add a desktop gpu via gpu dock such as exp gdc beast 8.0 via mini pcie x4. The power button isn't attached with keyboard and hence it can be used to power on the machine. I've 2 main questions. First, since I'll need a Psu for the dock, can I use the psu's power supply to power both the dock and the laptop mobo replacing the AC adapter cable cause I don't want two different power cable going inside to power it up. Second, since it's a laptop, windows will detect it as such and it will show better not connected but powered on via AC, is there any way to make windows recognise it as normal pc and not laptop? This will also make battery icon disappear from system tray. If anybody have any other suggestions or any other opinion, do let me know