Make laptop boot to external monitor

Posted by Ozzy on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Ozzy
Published on 2011-02-23T05:37:40Z Indexed on 2011/02/23 7:27 UTC
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Hi all. Heres my setup:

Dell 1737
2x Dell U2311H

The laptop lid is always closed and is wall mounted behind the monitors.

Every time i boot the laptop, i have to open the lid a little until it goes to the win 7 logon screen. Once there, i close the lid and both monitors get detected and the laptop screen switches off.

As the laptop is wall mounted how ever, its really tedious to keep opening and closing the lid.

Is there any way i can make it default to the external monitors permanently?

Any suggestions are welcome, even hardware mods. Im willing to rip apart the laptop to install a switch or something if needs be lol

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