Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in my original post, but the problem is during BIOS. Because BIOS operates *before* an OS is called, having the latest drivers for Windows would change exactly nothing with the issue I'm having. As a side note I already have the latest graphics drivers, but that's irrelevant because it works just fine when Windows has loaded.
So to summarize, during BIOS the screen is blank because the internal graphics is displaying either a resolution or refresh rate that is incompatible with my monitor. Once Windows finishes loading it display just fine. Obviously the monitor *can* work with the internal graphics, because it works when Windows is loaded. My issue is that during BIOS boot up it is doing something strange that causes it to not be able to display.
I have also tried booting in BIOS recovery mode.
Apologies if I wasn't clear in the original post. However, I found your response to be rather presumptive and perfunctory. It appears as though you simply gave it a brief scan and saw Graphics issue and Monitor and immediately jumped to a response that didn't fit with the context of what I had wrote.
-Reed