Notebooks & Netbooks

[bejamartins]

Greetings,
My girlfriend lend me her Aspire S3. The PC is perfectly fine, except the fact the the screen is broken. It already broke twice (just by opening...), so we are not spending money on a third one.
So, what I want to do is to connect it to an external monitor through HDMI (and possibly remove the broken screen, since it has no use). I can do it in Windows, but not outside Windows (BIOS) and I'd like install Windows 8.1 or 10. So my question is: can I force output from boot into HDMI? If so how, if not, what alternatives do I have to install a new version o Windows without spending a small fortune?

Thanks in advance.

[IronFly · Accepted solution]

there's no settings on BIOS to force HDMI as first video output but honestly i don't know if having HDMI connected will force it automatically as primary monitor.

[sathya0403]

Hi,

As Iron Fly said there is no option to force external display but You can try Fn+F5, once windows Boots to swap display from Internal to external,..

[bejamartins]

Seemed like the F2 keys is unresponsive as well. I just connected an external keyboard and manage to go to BIOS with it direclty through the HDMI connection without doing anything else.