This is my how to video on connecting a monitor to a laptop with a broken screen. Most laptops have an auto detect feature for connecting a VGA or HDMI but if yours doesnt, here is how you do it.
Broo, I have a meeting tomorrow and i needed my laptop, guess what the screen broke today, BUT YOU SAVED ME. Thank you so much man really appreciate it!!
What is happening when you are trying this? Or what specifically are you getting stuck on? Let me know what you are struggling with and I'm sure I can reply with some nice clear steps to follow, and get you back on track... best of luck !
So it worked for mine! However I would like to add if your computer normally prompts a voltage notification (to press f1) or if your computer shuts down (enter>start windows normally) can trigger the homepage to display as well. You just have to make sure you press those buttons around 10 seconds in between from startup as you would have normally. Thanks again!
Another option worth trying. When you turn on your laptop close the lid immediately. And it should detect the external display. Automatically. Of course you have it plugged in already.
Thank you! Yesterday I managed to make it work following the video but today it didn't want to connect, your comment saved me 😊 (or saved the computer since I was tempted to throw it out of the window lol)
Hello I have a big problem, I dropped my laptop during the installation of windows 11, I saw a video that said I remove the connection from the monitor it would read my secondary monitor automatically. So I opened it (novice) and found a wire that lead to screen from behind and I unplugged that from the mother board but instead of a cracked screen I have a black screen and no visibility. Do you have any suggestions thank you
mine still won't work. i'm testing it with my new laptop and it works but not with the old. maybe it's too messed up to work with. :( update: it worked.
There is a easier way to get to the login screen: When on the lockscreen, (the page that shows a picture and the time) just hit the space bar. To open the menu that comes up when you hit the mirrored screen button, hold the windows logo key and press p. To go through the menu items, you can press the up or down arrows to highlight an option, and press enter to select until you see the screen in the monitor. This is much easier than trying to use the mouse blinded. Hope this helps anyone
thanks bro, i had an laptop with almost all of ,y childhood pics. Found it after 13 years just because of you I was able to take a look at my childhood.
ive been using broken screen for a long time and real issues, only skimmed yr video with little patience right now but THANK YOU, a fiddling with some of the keys you mentioned - hooray!! working!!
i have a laptop that has a half cracked screen, i have an external monitor, but i dont have an HDMI or VGA cables sad days now i think i have to buy an HDMI also thank you for making an awesome video, its rare for me to come across something that i actually wanted to see and had what i needed to figure out 😄
you're absolutely a life saver it's been almost a week that m trying to do that and it didn't work but know it done i lost my words right know cuz m very happy thank you so much ❤️
Your video is awesome ... actually I accidentally forced my laptop to close it, I didn't know my handfrees were on keypad...& When I realized there's something wrong I noticed crash with lines from inside the screen. I think the hardware is safe. Please guide me
I had an external monitor hooked up with mirrored display (because my screen was already broken) and when my laptop was doing an update it went blank and nothing would show up. I also had scroll turned off on my laptop (use a mouse instead). I was freaked out about the monitor not turning on... With this video, and just messing with those monitor buttons you mentioned, i got the external screen to turn back on, only to realize that there was no login screen, only updates happening, that say "your PC will restart several times." in end, i just needed to give it time, but i still think the monitor buttons you mentioned helped. Thank you much!
Same like when i turn it on it finally starts showing at the log in page, like rn im installing windows 10 from windows 7 and i cant see nothing cuz it starts to show at the log in page not when booting i have no idea on how to make it show cuz i cant see anything
thank you. My screen broke last (dont know how) dark blotch and lines going left to right. I am in safe mode now getting some Documents I want to save to a jump drive. Now I can buy a larger tv or monitor and a small hdmi cord and should be good to go. TY again
This helps you to connect, but how do you make the external your main display when the laptop is broken? Everything I try to open opens on the laptop screen and not the external
If you have the mirrored screen option hit that button again until eventually you see your home screen.or try right clicking on the blank screen going to your display settings and select show only second screen
What worked for me: The monitor (via HDMI) automatically became the main screen with the broken screen removed/disconnected. Simply rebooted with the monitor connected. Used the laptop as normal, no drama when it sleeps, no stress about turning it off. All you need is a small screwdriver and 5 minutes to remove the screen. TH-cam search your laptop model to see how to remove the screen. Hope that helps! ETA: Once you see how easy it is to remove the screen you will do the replacement yourself and save $200 dollars.
Hello I have a big problem, I dropped my laptop during the installation of windows 11, I saw a video that said I remove the connection from the monitor it would read my secondary monitor automatically. So I opened it (novice) and found a wire that lead to screen from behind and I unplugged that from the mother board but instead of a cracked screen I have a black screen and no visibility. Do you have any suggestions thank you
Disconnect the broken screen , open up the laptop and unplug the lead going to your screen. The laptop will now boot to external screen through vga or hdmi. You can unplug it on the motherboard or on the back of the screen, whatever you find easiest.
Hello I have a big problem, I dropped my laptop during the installation of windows 11, I saw a video that said I remove the connection from the monitor it would read my secondary monitor automatically. So I opened it (novice) and found a wire that lead to screen from behind and I unplugged that from the mother board but instead of a cracked screen I have a black screen and no visibility. Do you have any suggestions thank you
@@colleenrandall5628 Hi Colleen, hope I can help. Firstly could you tell me which model laptop you have please? Just to recap what I did with mine after disconnecting the screen I plugged an hdmi lead into the laptop and the other end to my monitor. Had to go into the monitor settings and change the input over to hdmi, started the laptop and the picture came straight up. Its possible you might have to press a button combo on the laptop , to change to hdmi output, that depends which laptop you have.
The monitor has buttons and set to hdmi. Full list of what happened. I was using my other monitor but encountered an issue running games so I attempted to install windows 11 via usb. A DX issue or graphics card issue and figured windows 11 would be a good upgrade. However, I was unable to set the bios to boot usb due to the cracked screen. It didn’t turn on the second monitor by default. I watched a TH-cam video on disconnecting the monitor cable from the motherboard which would put the new monitor as the primary. Which I did, but now my screen is black, I had a windows 11 bootable usb plugged in and somehow installed it using text to speech accessibility. It was a miracle, however, when on the windows 11 desktop I attempted to install the sager drivers for NP7877PQ. It said windows 10 but figured it would be ok. The first driver was intel rapid storage (Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver for Windows 10 64 BIT) which in retrospect was a bonehead move because now when I restarted the screen is black again, I don’t have the text to speech option and I can’t access anything. Is there a feasible solution to fix without sending this in?
My f7 key isn't a connect button but a microphone button, I'm gonna see if one of the others one is. Let's hope it is :'). I'll update as I go to see if I can finally connect my broken laptop to my tv
I found a laptop that had decent specs on ebay and the display was bent so the original owner thought it was broken and not working anymore, so they were selling it at a really cheap price lol
You can keep clicking the extended screen button to switch it to mirror mode. you could also try right clicking on the newly displayed screen and switch it to your main screen by going into display settings and making screen 2 your main screen
hello i have a laptop that is broken and i always connected it to the hdmi cable and everything was fine until i turned off the graphics card since then it won't connect to the monitor can it help?
That could just be problems with your display settings? Try going to the home screen and right clicking anywhere on a black background space. Go to display settings and start messing with the settings. It could be a simple resolution problem or it could be problems with your laptop (out) display port.
I did this on my busted laptop but I did the F7 thing first. Then I was able to see the login screen and didn't have to do all that other nonsense. My dirty videos have been recovered.
Thank you Tyler, I am in the same situation with my Hp pavillon g6, I was pressing Fn , I think I should not , I will try again with monitor botton only
My screen is not cracked or broken. But when I power it on, the screen doesn't light up at all. I got it to work with these methods on windows 7, but now it will not work since I got 10. I am at a loss, I need this laptop for my job.
Life saver! My toddler broke my screen yesterday. I have a paper due in a couple of days. I didn't have to do all of the steps. Thank you!
vanquish your offspring
@@edwardrockingan2177 Cringe mf
@@edwardrockingan2177 bro 😭
Short, sweet, to the point, and YES! It worked! Thank you for the very informative (and brief) video. Still helping folks years later.
Broo, I have a meeting tomorrow and i needed my laptop, guess what the screen broke today, BUT YOU SAVED ME. Thank you so much man really appreciate it!!
How did it go?
I'm dying trying this out. Not blaming you in any way. You did great, I know it should work. I'm just not sure, what I'm doing wrong. 🤦🏽♀️
Same
What is happening when you are trying this? Or what specifically are you getting stuck on?
Let me know what you are struggling with and I'm sure I can reply with some nice clear steps to follow, and get you back on track... best of luck !
@@MoAli-wm4ofme too! Logged in because i dont have a password, on the homescreen but fn/f7 doesnt do anything for me :(
So it worked for mine! However I would like to add if your computer normally prompts a voltage notification (to press f1) or if your computer shuts down (enter>start windows normally) can trigger the homepage to display as well. You just have to make sure you press those buttons around 10 seconds in between from startup as you would have normally. Thanks again!
Another option worth trying. When you turn on your laptop close the lid immediately. And it should detect the external display. Automatically. Of course you have it plugged in already.
Thankyou so much.. it worked!!
Thank you! Yesterday I managed to make it work following the video but today it didn't want to connect, your comment saved me 😊 (or saved the computer since I was tempted to throw it out of the window lol)
Thanks this is working
Hello I have a big problem, I dropped my laptop during the installation of windows 11, I saw a video that said I remove the connection from the monitor it would read my secondary monitor automatically. So I opened it (novice) and found a wire that lead to screen from behind and I unplugged that from the mother board but instead of a cracked screen I have a black screen and no visibility. Do you have any suggestions thank you
It worked for me but make sure not to open the lid once it boot sucessfully to windows till you login
mine still won't work. i'm testing it with my new laptop and it works but not with the old. maybe it's too messed up to work with. :(
update: it worked.
How
Press fn7 or fn10
miki Nguyen / i pressed f4 and it worked after a while.
But does it work with dell
jacksonmwatson does it work with dell
I don’t know how you discovered this but THANK YOU!!!!! Genius
There is a easier way to get to the login screen:
When on the lockscreen, (the page that shows a picture and the time) just hit the space bar.
To open the menu that comes up when you hit the mirrored screen button, hold the windows logo key and press p.
To go through the menu items, you can press the up or down arrows to highlight an option, and press enter to select until you see the screen in the monitor.
This is much easier than trying to use the mouse blinded.
Hope this helps anyone
thanks
I might need some help none of these are working
OMG it worked thank you soo much
Thanks!
In windows 7
thanks bro, i had an laptop with almost all of ,y childhood pics. Found it after 13 years just because of you I was able to take a look at my childhood.
I have a xam in few days and my laptop screen broke today. I couldn't bypass the password screen.. so Thank You, you are a life saver
Dude.... You are a Legend!!!!!
The only problem is, I I don't have that button on f7 or f10
Command key + F1 and press twice.
Thank you so much for making this video, this is a life saver for doing the online classes
We’re you using a Mac book or another computer?
thankyou sirr, you saved my life !, i just accidentally shot
my screen with bb, dumb way to broke my laptop X(
ive been using broken screen for a long time and real issues, only skimmed yr video with little patience right now but THANK YOU, a fiddling with some of the keys you mentioned - hooray!! working!!
The most helpful dude ever thank God you know this and shared this info id be screwed
MY SCREEN LOOKS THE EXACT SAME!! aww man I hope this works 🤞
Did it work?
Me too
Omg! You are truly a life saver. I have several pictures on my laptop that I have to get out. I thought I had lost them forever. 😊
You could also remove the hard drive and access it on another pc as if it's an external drive, using a sata to usb cable
Thanks so much. My laptop died the night I have 1000 things to do.
i have a laptop that has a half cracked screen, i have an external monitor, but i dont have an HDMI or VGA cables
sad days now i think i have to buy an HDMI
also thank you for making an awesome video, its rare for me to come across something that i actually wanted to see and had what i needed to figure out 😄
Thanks bro, btw try and record horizontally next time
You can also tap windows button then P on ur keyboard.....its also a shortcut 🔥
What after that?
This is really really help full brother thank you so much.. U saved my life from my mom❤️❤️
Thank you thank you THANK YOUUU!!! Finally could login with broken screen and disable safemode with keyboard. Love you ❤️
you're absolutely a life saver it's been almost a week that m trying to do that and it didn't work but know it done i lost my words right know cuz m very happy thank you so much ❤️
I think I love you!!!! You're a life saver and just ended my hours of frustration
You saved my homeschooling life!!! Thank you for being so conscientious and posting such an important video! God bless you! Great bike!
You just saved my life with this simple video thats crazy thank you
Yo I need help
Thank you! this helped me tremendously
Your video is awesome ... actually I accidentally forced my laptop to close it, I didn't know my handfrees were on keypad...& When I realized there's something wrong I noticed crash with lines from inside the screen. I think the hardware is safe. Please guide me
I had an external monitor hooked up with mirrored display (because my screen was already broken) and when my laptop was doing an update it went blank and nothing would show up. I also had scroll turned off on my laptop (use a mouse instead). I was freaked out about the monitor not turning on... With this video, and just messing with those monitor buttons you mentioned, i got the external screen to turn back on, only to realize that there was no login screen, only updates happening, that say "your PC will restart several times." in end, i just needed to give it time, but i still think the monitor buttons you mentioned helped. Thank you much!
Same like when i turn it on it finally starts showing at the log in page, like rn im installing windows 10 from windows 7 and i cant see nothing cuz it starts to show at the log in page not when booting i have no idea on how to make it show cuz i cant see anything
thank you. My screen broke last (dont know how) dark blotch and lines going left to right. I am in safe mode now getting some Documents I want to save to a jump drive.
Now I can buy a larger tv or monitor and a small hdmi cord and should be good to go. TY again
Thx dear. I resolved the issue only with restart. The external monitor was added only with RGB - blue nine pin cable for lenovo 450.
Thank you bro, i have my last assignment for the year due tomorrow and i droped something on my screen and broke it today😔
Your a life saver bro
This helps you to connect, but how do you make the external your main display when the laptop is broken? Everything I try to open opens on the laptop screen and not the external
Screen totally damaged, only mouse pointer showing on connected hdmi screen, what to do now?
Rajesh Naugai unplig and plug it back in
If you have the mirrored screen option hit that button again until eventually you see your home screen.or try right clicking on the blank screen going to your display settings and select show only second screen
@@l00SING hello hope you're doing well, can we try to unlock the laptop with a totally black screen?
When I do it... And I press enter...
The broken screen turns off... Then on again... And it does that whenever enter is pressed
Thank you so much! It took me a couple tries but I got it!
The most sense anyones ever made 👍🏻 👌🏻
I LOVE YOU
Brooo ur a life saver
So helpful, thanks
What worked for me: The monitor (via HDMI) automatically became the main screen with the broken screen removed/disconnected. Simply rebooted with the monitor connected. Used the laptop as normal, no drama when it sleeps, no stress about turning it off. All you need is a small screwdriver and 5 minutes to remove the screen. TH-cam search your laptop model to see how to remove the screen. Hope that helps!
ETA: Once you see how easy it is to remove the screen you will do the replacement yourself and save $200 dollars.
Hello I have a big problem, I dropped my laptop during the installation of windows 11, I saw a video that said I remove the connection from the monitor it would read my secondary monitor automatically. So I opened it (novice) and found a wire that lead to screen from behind and I unplugged that from the mother board but instead of a cracked screen I have a black screen and no visibility. Do you have any suggestions thank you
I’m going to have to try this out.
It works 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
OMG.. thank you sooooo much for this honest video... i did it... also have broken lcd laptop screen... tq🙏🏻🙏🏻
Omg It worked!! THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH. This is much appreciated
U ARE A LIFE SIFER DUDE Tysm!!
It really helped me thanks
Thank you very much btw same laptop
Omg. It worked. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much your literally a live saver i hope you hit 1 mil subs 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Good job, thank you!
BRO THANK YOU. I THOUGHT I WAS DEAD
Disconnect the broken screen , open up the laptop and unplug the lead going to your screen. The laptop will now boot to external screen through vga or hdmi. You can unplug it on the motherboard or on the back of the screen, whatever you find easiest.
well my computer is broken now but thanks anyway
Hello I have a big problem, I dropped my laptop during the installation of windows 11, I saw a video that said I remove the connection from the monitor it would read my secondary monitor automatically. So I opened it (novice) and found a wire that lead to screen from behind and I unplugged that from the mother board but instead of a cracked screen I have a black screen and no visibility. Do you have any suggestions thank you
@@colleenrandall5628 Hi Colleen, hope I can help. Firstly could you tell me which model laptop you have please? Just to recap what I did with mine after disconnecting the screen I plugged an hdmi lead into the laptop and the other end to my monitor. Had to go into the monitor settings and change the input over to hdmi, started the laptop and the picture came straight up. Its possible you might have to press a button combo on the laptop , to change to hdmi output, that depends which laptop you have.
@@boastyy hi, I have a sager gaming laptop NP7877PQ and monitor Dell UP2516D I don’t see any buttons to make matters worse 😿
The monitor has buttons and set to hdmi. Full list of what happened. I was using my other monitor but encountered an issue running games so I attempted to install windows 11 via usb. A DX issue or graphics card issue and figured windows 11 would be a good upgrade.
However, I was unable to set the bios to boot usb due to the cracked screen. It didn’t turn on the second monitor by default.
I watched a TH-cam video on disconnecting the monitor cable from the motherboard which would put the new monitor as the primary. Which I did, but now my screen is black,
I had a windows 11 bootable usb plugged in and somehow installed it using text to speech accessibility. It was a miracle, however, when on the windows 11 desktop I attempted to install the sager drivers for NP7877PQ. It said windows 10 but figured it would be ok. The first driver was intel rapid storage (Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver for Windows 10 64 BIT) which in retrospect was a bonehead move because now when I restarted the screen is black again, I don’t have the text to speech option and I can’t access anything.
Is there a feasible solution to fix without sending this in?
Bro, You made my day. Love you from Pakistan.
Thanks man you helped me a lot
wow... This is amazing... Thank you!
Thanks!!!!! I really needed this! I even made a video showing my broken laptop
Your a GAME SAVER THANK YOUUUUU!!!!❤❤❤
My f7 key isn't a connect button but a microphone button, I'm gonna see if one of the others one is. Let's hope it is :'). I'll update as I go to see if I can finally connect my broken laptop to my tv
Try command key + F1 and price twice. That's the mirror button key for those without it on the other F keys.
Omg thank you. Actually thank you so much. My little brother sat on my laptop
Awesome ..thank you.
Thanks man, this is really helpful
I found a laptop that had decent specs on ebay and the display was bent so the original owner thought it was broken and not working anymore, so they were selling it at a really cheap price lol
Fantastic 😊 video many thanks.
Thanks bro thanks thanks thanks a lot 😊😊😊
Thank you so much
Do these steps work for a tv screen? I have the hdmi cable hooked up but when I try to duplicate it I don’t see anything on my tv screen
yeah follow the same steps. the Hdmi should work fine.
@@l00SING thanks bro I'm gonna try this and if it works ur the best
Thank you thank you very much.
Dood thank you so much you are so helpful it worked you are the best
Thank you so much my whole official data was on stake you really saved my ass🥰🥰
awesome man.. It worked forr me... Thank you so much❤❤
Saved the business
This is some next level shit
My friend gave me a laptop with the same conditions and no password is it possible to get in without a passcode?
Worked like magic..... thanks
I LOVE YOU SO MUCH MAN :DDDDDDDD IT WORKED
i really hope this works i’m kinda slow and i don’t know how to use computers and i really want to see all the old pictures on my moms old computer
Just extract the hard drive
Thx you my mom labtop screen broken so thx you
thanks dude this helped alot
Hey glad to hear man. I was thinking that if this video helped one person id be happy
I can get the external screen to work but it’s in extended mode and I can’t get the home screen on the monitor 😕
You can keep clicking the extended screen button to switch it to mirror mode. you could also try right clicking on the newly displayed screen and switch it to your main screen by going into display settings and making screen 2 your main screen
Thank you 🙏🏾
Your a life saver
hello i have a laptop that is broken and i always connected it to the hdmi cable and everything was fine until i turned off the graphics card since then it won't connect to the monitor can it help?
my entire laptop screen is gone but when I connect to my tv everything is blurry and words are smaller how do I resolve that?
That could just be problems with your display settings? Try going to the home screen and right clicking anywhere on a black background space. Go to display settings and start messing with the settings. It could be a simple resolution problem or it could be problems with your laptop (out) display port.
I did this on my busted laptop but I did the F7 thing first. Then I was able to see the login screen and didn't have to do all that other nonsense. My dirty videos have been recovered.
You are the best bro
Thank you bro is working and to my laptop whanks
I reset my broken display laptop but now I'm stuck in a loop it says choose an option and it's not visible on my TV with a hdmi cable
Venom same helpppp
😓😞
Thanks!
Thanks bro 😘
Thanks man
Tqvm.bro.God bless
GREAT HELP THANK YOU, Question please: On a HP Mini how can I bypass Login Password when my HP screen is broken?? Thank you!
Thankyouuu so much
Please note this is for the log in screen for Windows 10 os.
Thank you Tyler, I am in the same situation with my Hp pavillon g6, I was pressing Fn , I think I should not , I will try again with monitor botton only
aziouz figui
Thanks mach i will try
My screen is not cracked or broken. But when I power it on, the screen doesn't light up at all. I got it to work with these methods on windows 7, but now it will not work since I got 10. I am at a loss, I need this laptop for my job.
Thank you
I don’t have a duplicate display key help
Try pressing CTRL+Windows+P
Press down 2 times and Press Enter
@@emmnhrld thank you sooo much
Emman Harold Thanks so much. It worked for me