I have an HP 625 laptop that is three years old. A few months ago I dropped it and broke the screen. Not a big problem -- I just hooked it to the TV with an HDMI cable or to the monitor on my desktop with a VGA cable.
This worked fine until today, when it started crashing. Through the broken screen I could tell that it wanted to give me a message, but I couldn't read it was since whatever the error was disabled the external VGA and HDMI signals.
I think I can fix the crashiness problem if I can get into Safe Mode, but Safe Mode won't send signal to the external mnoitor or to the HDMI so I can see what to do.
Any advice?