So I have a older (2010 or 2011) vaio z series laptop from work and although it has a vga and hdmi port, only 1 can be in use at a time. Since I want to drive two monitors I need an external graphics ...

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I thought that, in general, x86/x64 machines wouldn't boot without a graphics card in them. Since a USB graphics card doesn't "work" until you actually get into Windows and such, you're kind of stuck.