Ok so my friend and I decided to do a factory reset on his PC just to clean up the crap on it because he's getting a new desktop in a week or so when his motherboard arrives. The power adapter for the laptop wasn't fully plugged in and in the middle of doing the factory reset it died and I think it messed up. The hp display does not work because it broke earlier and my friend just uses his External HDMI BenQ monitor and its been fine. But now that after it died on the factory reset it wont display on the external display. I tried hooking it up with VGA, HDMI, and I don't have any hookups other than that. I don't think the laptop is bricked because while I had the broken display on it kind of responded to a few common bios combinations. I saw a video on youtube to disconnect the display of the laptop from the laptop and I removed the screen, then hook up the VGA and it should work, but it doesn't. If you need any more information just ask.
Sorry for this block of text and thanks for taking your time to help in advance.
~Ethan