No picture on laptop screen?

Hi all was using my laptop last night,not really taking notice of what i was doing,anyhow next thing i know the screen is nearly black i can make a few icons out but thats about it........any ideas welcome.maybe i have pressed the a button which has made the screen go dark? i have also tried this screen with the laptop but it does not light up either oh yeah software i`m running is windows vista. regards neil hi now tried the fn +f5 or the 7 this does nothing. the laptop is a dual core pentium t 2080 its using the e system whatever that is ghostly cannot find a contrast button anywhere on the pc ?
Answer
Press this in your keyboardfn + f5 (press both) or fn + f7 (press both)you might just press the toggle switch between laptop screen and projector screen.cheers!