ok i got this sony laptop it has a smashed screen that is now removed laptop boots fine i just cant see nothing but i can hear the windows 7 boot up sounds and shutdown sounds. what im trying to do is hook up a vga or hdmi monitor to it. but everything i try it wont boot up the monitor. now b 4 i removed broken screen i could see only a small bit so there is nothing rong with gpu. im trying to find out how i can load this up with a vga/hdmi lcd screen as im going to make a home made aio system. but as it is now i m trying to get laptop to boot up useing the ext lcd as i have a blank drive ready for doing the install. as it will have a 2tb running on it. yes its a laptop and it will have a 3.5 sata drive as well as a std lightscribe as it did have a 3d blu-ray 12x burner but that is now in my HP g6 with 3ghz cpu / 8gb ram / 1tb hdd. if any one can help and tell me how the hell i can load it up with a ext monitor thank you