Solved! My laptop screen is blank. It is using HDMI to monitor right now.

[MrLaBrightside]

The monitor is blank, as if that is what the computer is displaying. The computer itself has a cracked screen and went blank one night after installing a graphics controller. I have tried to run explorer.exe with no luck. I have also tried viewing other things like the sticky keys prompt. I'm going to buy a desktop soon anyway but just wondering if anything can be done to use this one as it has files I'd like to view.

 

[webworkings]

Try this...

1. Turn the laptop off (not sleep or hibernate but off).
2. Connect an external monitor to the laptop.
3. Turn on the external monitor.
4. Turn on the laptop.

NOTE: You may have to press an "external monitor" button. Could be the f4 button or a button with two monitors on it, for the external monitor to work.

If you can see fine on the external monitor, then your attached display, or the ribbon cable that connects it, are your problem.

If you can't see on the external monitor at all, or the problem occurs on the external monitor as well, then it is probably the graphics card/GPU that is the problem, which may require the motherboard be replaced.