Restart your laptop and clean the keyboard to fix some screen issues without replacing it. If your screen is black, try connecting to an external monitor to check if it's a screen problem. Sometimes ...

Just because you have a broken laptop screen doesn't mean that all hope is lost. You may just have to get a little creative. Here are some fixes.

laptop doesn't have a fn+something combo to toggle internal/external display? Alternatively, check the bios. sometimes they have an option in there for primary display or "first" display, set it to ...