epimethus 0 Newbie Poster

hello, could someone please help me, i have a compaq n610c when i switch it on the fans starts fine, lites come on to tell me its on, infact everything you would expect when you switch your laptop on, though this is the problem my screen is completley black, i cannot see anything, iv tried connecting it to another monitor, though its still the same, it seems as though theres no power to the screen at all, please can somone help, thankyou