CMD help needed

Question

I have Linux Mint 19 on a bootable USB, ready to install on my laptop. My issue is the LCD display is broken, and I cannot view the BIOS through an external display because the drivers that control the display are within the OS. I've tried a handful of techniques to work around it, but to no avail. I'm now thinking there has to be a CMD command to boot from the USB, instead of going through the GUI to access advanced startup options (which as I said, won't display). I'm very new to all of this and any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Phillip Davidson Have you tried to connect your laptop with another monitor with vga/vga cable? Try to turn off laptop, connect laptop and external monitor via vga/vga cable then turn on laptop

Answer 2

I can get every other function to display normally through the HDMI (there is no VGA). The advanced startup menu/BIOS is the only thing that I can't get to display. I even tried a diskpart command I read about that causes the advanced options menu to show after *every* restart, but I still just get the black screen. What's even more interesting is I know for certain the BIOS is there, it just isn't displaying, because when I run the advanced startup I only get a black screen until I press enter (selecting the 1st option on bios, I'm assuming) then it starts windows normally. If I do nothing then it shuts off after a couple minutes.

Answer 3

But you have windows 8/10 with fast/sleep mode actived? Have you edited some bios settings recently? Tried to remove motherboard cmos battery?

Answer 4

I just did a factory reset last night out of desperation and still no luck. So it shouldn't be an issue with settings... I will try another monitor as soon as I have one at my disposal. I haven't removed the cmos battery Krow (and admittedly I dont know how to).