help needed computer illiterate here

[iatethepeach]

and my shoes fell off
and i cant find my glasses....

That one and the auto mechanic were my favorites. "I work on race cars!"

 

[crazypj]

FWIW, you can get replacement screens on ebay or pc parts breakers for somewhere close to 50 ish bucks. I work with a bunch of dunder head install techs and have had a replace many a cracked or broken screen. Not hard at all if you can get the entire lid/screen. Lots of little screws to get the keyboard cover off but not much after that.

Now if the whole machine is borked meaning that it is not even getting past the initial boot screen which you can't see it in the first place then I would just toss and pick up a good used one from a pawn shop.

I use a British keyboard even though I'm living in USA.
As for swapping screens, you can get replacements but to be honest it often isn't worth the hassle of changing them unless you really need laptop to be moved around (traveling, etc)
I fitted external monitor to wifes HP and just completely removed lid and screen (pretty easy, just lots of little screws)
It's been used as a desktop computer for a couple of years now.
You need to know the bios maker, the entry key is different for different manufacturers. (AMI, AWARD, etc)
Mine uses Del (delete) not F5, F8, F11, etc to get into boot screens
This is probably more information than you want but the first link does have pictures
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/termsb/p/bios.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS