How to Make a Laptop Screen Go Blank. Disabling your laptop's screen can save on energy use and help protect sensitive information from being seen by colleagues or visitors to the office.

Just because you have a broken laptop screen doesn't mean that all hope is lost. You may just have to get a little creative. Here are some fixes.

MacBook Pro: Blank screen on wake from sleep. One MacFixIt reader writes: "I am using a MacBook Pro 2Ghz, 1 GB RAM, running Mac OS X 10.4.6.