Recent content by crofty1975

i have taken the screen out of the laptop still nothing , took the hard drive out just to see if it would boot up linux ubuntu from the dvd but nothing there as well.

i have a compaq cq58 laptop with broken screen. How do i switch straight away to external monitor so i can have access to bios options for boot order etc. The manuals say f4 but that only works when its get to windows login , giving the impression that it a software option to switch from...