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Asus A55V Video outputs show nothing.

Lifezor

Commendable
Dec 9, 2016
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So i just got an Asus A55VJ-SX151H from a friend for free because he has punched the screen to death. Tried to plug it in to the VGA first but it showed no video. (Monitor went into sleep mode, recognized it was plugged in.) Same happened with HDMI. It doesn't have an operating system at the moment, but i can barely see it says something about security stuff. It also boots into BIOS when i press enter. I kinda want to get this working so i could use it as a video machine for my TV. Any ideas?
 
Usually to switch to VGA or HDMI you have to press a keyboard combo, FN and F5 is usually it but it does vary from laptop to laptop