# Dirkwood

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dirkwood/278504>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [December 31, 2008, 10:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dirkwood/278504 "2008-12-31T10:42:11Z")\
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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:** [December 31, 2008, 10:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dirkwood/278504/1 "2008-12-31T10:42:11Z")

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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