My laptop is apparently dead. I'm not sure what to do, but the screen is extremely dark. :( If I tilt it this way and that, I can see that it has stuff showing up, but trying to boost the brightness isn't making any of it any more visible. My sounds are playing ("You have my sword...and my bow...and my axe!" which is my startup .wav :>), but no visible visuals.

That makes me suspect if I try to hook it up to my big desktop monitor I'll just have a big desktop sized black screen. :(

I'm pretty sure this is related to a problem that the laptop has been having on and off for a while where I would boot it up and get an error about something or other. Yesterday, when I dutifully opened an internet connection and sent in the little report, it came back with, "We can fix this!"

No. Apparently they cannot. I don't remember what exactly the message said and there sits my laptop, its screen dark and lonesome. I don't know what I'm going to do now. :(

Hepl.