I have a windows 8 laptop, and I ran into a problem. About 7 months ago, I broke my laptop screen, so I decided to get an external monitor. The monitor never showed the startup or BIOS and went straight to the desktop; I decided to live with the problem for a while. But then a windows 8.1 update kept bugging me and all I had to do was check "remind me later". But then it kept happening, and then suddenly one more box popped up and immediately started the windows 8.1 update. Like I said, I can't see anything in the bios, menu etc.- just the password screen. so the update got done downloading, I suppose; press the power button, and it shows that it's turned on, but shows nothing on the monitor. I've already tried the solution where you press "fn f4" and all that, but it only works on the desktop- but I can't get to the desktop if it shows literally nothing on the screen. My monitor is perfectly fine btw, it shows the startup for it and everything. Soooo... What should I do?