So as the title says, I took off the display panel on my laptop and replaced it with a monitor because I didn't feel like purchasing a $50+ LCD screen (Got the monitor for $9 at Goodwill). I also removed the CD Drive (don't ever use it) and placed the WiFi antenna where it was located it, but that works well. I'll attach a picture below so you can see how it turned out. (Click for full size)
Anyways, because I did that, a few problems came up.
First, when I boot up my laptop, it does 8 consecutive beeps and then starts over to warn about display failures, even though I have the external monitor hooked up. Is there any way to turn this off? I've checked the BIOS settings and I don't see anything about any chimes or beeps.
Also, the "Starting Windows" splash screen is off center, as well as the BIOS some times. Auto-Adjusting the monitor only helps with the BIOS, but the splash screen still pushes to the left. It's very noticeable and I wanted to know if there's a fix for it.
Finally, my computer still recognizes the laptop's built in display. I've tried disabling it in the device manager, but I wasn't able to get a permanent fix. For the monitor to work properly, I have to enable the "Projector only" display setting with the F2 Key or the graphics options. Is there any way to completely uninstall the laptop's monitor? Even my Linux install recognizes the laptop's monitor.
PS: It would be nice to control the monitor's brightness with the laptop's brightness keys. I know I can control the monitor's brightness along with the other settings with the Intel Graphics Properties, so I don't think it should be too hard to re-configure the keys to do the same.