I have a Compaq laptop that I want to hook up to a Compaq monitor?

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So I dropped my laptop, and broke the hinge off of it. It worked fine for a while, and all of a sudden when I turn it on it has gray stripes that won't go away. So I connected it up to another Compaq monitor, and the Windows Xp loading thing pops up a few times, and then the light on the monitor goes from green to orange, why is this?