Take the 2-minute tour ×  I have a laptop with a fried graphics
processor. The computer will boot up, but nothing shows up on
the screen. After investigating, this model of laptop has had
issues with its graphics processor over heating. The laptop is
out of warranty too.  Now, I love recycling computer parts, and
being cheap. Recently, I have been considering to get a computer
dedicated to serving media and documents to all the devices on
my network. I thought instead of buying a new system, I could
just use this laptop. With the screen shot, it wouldn't need to
do anything except connect to the network and serve files from
the hard drive.  The problem I am now faced with is that since
the display isn't working, I have no way to get any feedback
from it at all. I can't navigate any menus to install linux (or
any os for that matter). I would be fine if I could just get ssh
setup, but I can't even get that far. Is there any way to use
some other output or feedback method to temporarily install and
configure lin