Cannot use external monitors in safe mode (windows 10)

TylerTheCook · Feb 18, 2016

I currently own a Toshiba Satellite laptop but the screen is cracked so I use an external monitor so I can use it. I have come across a few viruses so I booted it up in safe mode. Apparently doing so disabled the drivers needed to make the display on my external monitor to show up. So now I'm stuck with a screen I can't see anything on and another not being recognized at all by my computer. Is there a way I can boot up my laptop in "regular" mode without needing to see my display or a way to deactivate safe mode with only using buttons in Windows 10?

Laptop_Nerd · Feb 18, 2016

Hi,

It actually depends on how you entered Safe Mode, if your use System Configuration to make it boot into Safe Mode there's no way to undo it unless you revert the changes you made in System Configuration as well but if you loaded in Safe Mode by pressing F8 while it's booting up you can just do a hard reboot and it should boot directly to the normal mode. Another way is to make the external monitor as your default screen by disconnecting the ribbon cable that connects the LCD to the motherboard and you should be able to see everything using th external monitor.

TylerTheCook · Feb 18, 2016

Laptop_Nerd :

I enabled safe mode when I opened task manager and did it from "msconfig" or whatever the command may be, but I still tried the F8 boot up method.

Windows 10 boot sequence is different than it was in Windows 7 -8.1 so before trying this (yes I still tried) I read that this isn't possible on the newer operating system. I also disconnected the ribbon and nothing seemed to have changed. I have tested this on 4 different monitors and yet no prevail. Would there be a way to put my hard drive into another laptop and disable safe mode from there, and then reinsert my hard drive back into MY laptop?

Prostar Computer · Feb 18, 2016

TylerTheCook :

It's highly unlikely, but you can try. Windows is configured for the hardware it's installed to/for, so the HAL and drivers usually prevent you from booting Windows on a different computer with the same drive.

You can try using Shift and F8 as the computer boots, but this rarely works (mostly because the boot time is quicker on new systems, resulting in no window - pun intended - of opportunity to get the keystrokes in in time).

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