Ok, so I've made progress on the problem but it's not fixed yet. The safe mode thing did not work, but when I held down f8 to try safe mode again, I saw an option that said "Enable VGA Mode." I connected my monitor using VGA, so I decided to click that. My monitor then worked, but the resolution was on the lowest setting. When I went to turn in up in Control Panel>Display, it said a restart was required. I restarted, but VGA was not enabled. So I had to reboot again, go to Enable VGA again, but once again the resolution was terrible. I then tried hitting the balloon in the bottom right corner to change the resolution without restarting, but after this the monitor did not work. So I guess my two questions are
1. How do I make it permenantly enable VGA?
2. How do I make the computer have good resolution when VGA is enabled.