@egray723
Hello;
Allow me to welcome you to the HP forums!
Sorry, but you're facing a standard limitation of using an external monitor on a laptop -- and it will, as you have guessed, not show anything until the appropriate Windows drivers are loaded, making it unusuable for BIOS-related stuff.
If you want, I can post a link to a download you can use to burn a CD to use to reset the password on your PC, but it might not work with the screen busted.
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