Laptop broken?

[l33dsfan]

Hi I hope someone can help. I tool my Toshiba Satellite 1100 on a business trip, and at one point a colleague threw it into the back of a van (not knowing it was a laptop!) The only thing that seems to be broken is that the screen is so dark that you have to plug in a seperate monitor. The computer works fine. Does anyone have any ideas, or am I going to have to get a new one?

[WoWo]

With laptops you tend to find that the cost of getting the screen fixed is almost as much as getting a new one. Have a look in the yellow pages and see if there are any local repair places. it could be just a wire or something more serious with the screen.

[cyrilbiker]

Our experience with broken screens (we hire out laptops for use with surveying equipment) is scap it and buy a new one. The cost generally is not worth and we buy the parts etc at trade prices.

[Kev_UK]

Have you got any insurance policies that will cover it? If not, then it seems like you will need to buy a new laptop. As you said it works using another monitor, perhaps you can use it at home by purchasing a new monitor or a used one.. or sell it on ebay, describing it acurately.. E.g. "laptop, screen broken, but will work fine with external monitor"

[Closer]

Alternatively you might be able to find a screen on ebay for it.

[Kerplunk]

It's possible that the backlight has broken, it shouldn't be too expensive to repair.

[Kerplunk]

It will have only broken once.