# Alternate Monitor

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alternate-monitor/285793>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [April 6, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alternate-monitor/285793 "2009-04-06T17:35:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![dirkwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@dirkwood](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dirkwood)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alternate-monitor/285793/1 "2009-04-06T17:35:35Z")

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[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Hello,

My laptop monitor was recently smashed when I fell on an ice patch. I tried hooking up my laptop (hp pavilion intel centrino window XP) to my stand alone monitors (hp pavilion vf15 and my old samtron 55E).

I hope to still use my laptop cpu at home with one of the monitors listed above. With the Samtron monitor, I can see the bootstring all the way to the windows xp booting.  
Then, my laptop defaults back to its broken monitor leaving me without a view.

Please let me know if anyone can provide the keystrokes required to make my laptop default or switch to use of one of the external stand-alone monitors. I can not figure out the proper keystrokes since I can not see anything on the broken monitor.

I really appreciate any help you can provide.

Dirkwood[/FONT][/COLOR]