One other piece of advice I would offer is simply double check with a local repair shop or buy the LCD on eBay and pay to have it installed. If you send me a Pm with your laptop model I can find some ideas on what the screen should cost on eBay, but it is rare to pay more than $200 for a proper repair part and for some dells the screen can cost substantially less. For example, a new screen for my Dell Latitude D630 is $160 plus shipping and paying a local repair shop for installation should be an hour of labor, so maybe $75 if you don't want to do it yourself. I used to repair laptops back in college and it's often easy to do the job in less than 30 minutes. Pay for the repair from some local shop and you'll probablt come out $100 ahead.