A few weeks back, the company I worked for bought an external monitor for me to connect my computer in. The laptop in question has the Ubuntu version 20.04 and it is a HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop.
Since the external monitor was not being recognized I followed a tutorial where I changed the driver's computer momentarily to a previous version and then changed it back to the most recent driver.
This seemed to do the trick since the laptop started recognizing the external monitor.
The problem is that after this, the laptop always starts up with the "Press ctrl+c to cancel all filesystem checks in progress" message on screen unless I connect the external monitor first.
What suggestions do you have to solve this issue? Thank you for your responses in advance!